"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

 – Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotels Founder

 "Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time."

– Mia Hamm, Soccer Champion

 Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

-- Eddie Rickenbacker

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."

- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost, Poet

"All great achievements require time."

- Maya Angelou, Poet

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

-- Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'

We go where our vision is.

-- Joseph Murphy

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

-- Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

-- Herbert Spencer

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

-- Thomas Jefferson

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

-- Ed Macauley

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

-- Pablo Picasso

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

-- Bob Dylan

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

- Francis Bacon

"What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What would live be if we had not courage to attempt anything?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"Noting in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie, Physicist

"It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-denial."

- Thomas Haliburton, Writer

"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."

- Joe Namath, Football Player

"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own."

- Charles Scribner Jr., Publisher

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. "

- Muhammad Ali, boxer

To play it safe is not to play.

-- Robert Altman

Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.

-- Jane O'Reilly

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

- Peter Drucker, Educator

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

-- Wilfred A. Peterson

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

-- Bertrand Russell

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not . . . the world is full of educated derelicts."

- Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

-- Stella Terrill Mann

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

-- Henry David Thoreau

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

-- Agnes Repplier

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

- Malcolm S. Forbes, Publisher

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

-- Wendy Wasserstein, Isn't It Romantic, 1983

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

-- Cato the Elder

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."

- Ralph Lauren, Clothing Designer and Businessman

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

-- Charles W. Eliot, The Happy Life, 1896

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-- William Jennings Bryan

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-- Mary Pickford

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

- John F. Kennedy, 35th US president

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

- Marie Curie, physicist

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

-- Voltaire

"As long as you're going to think anyway, think big."

- Donald Trump, real estate executive

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. "

-Winston Churchill, British statesman

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote, author

"The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge."

- Arnold Palmer

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

-- James Gordon, M.D.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

-- G. K. Chesterton

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

-- Ernest Hemingway

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."

- Susan Polis Schutz, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. co-founder

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

-- Amy Lowell

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

-- Oscar Wilde

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

-- Saadi

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James Michener

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

-- Pierre Corneille, 'The Cid,' 1636

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

-- Henry David Thoreau

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Strength does not come from physical capability. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Gandhi

Never give advice unless asked.

-- German Proverb

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

-- Booker T. Washington

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-- Thomas A. Edison

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

- Henry Ford

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."

- Thomas Mann

"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."

- Mark Twain, author

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

-- Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

-- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

-Wayne Gretzky

"Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie, author

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." 

- Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host, producer

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

-- Henry Ford

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

- George Santayana

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails."

- Richard Rybolt

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.

-- Leon Tec, M.D.

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps."

- Helmut Schmidt

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958

I cannot live without books.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

-- Phil Jackson

The world belongs to the energetic.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

- Jean de la Bryere

"To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both."

- St Catherine of Siena

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

-- Bishop Richard Cumberland

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

-- Wilson Mizner

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

-- Anonymous

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

-- Payne Stewart

"Success is a journey, not only a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

- Arthur Ashe

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

-- Thomas A. Edison

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-- Carl Jung

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

-- Robbie Gass

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

-- General Douglas MacArthur

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

-- Christopher Morley

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Sir Winston Churchill

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

-- Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

Little by little, one travels far.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

-- Sallust

"Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love, inspiration and hard work. I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-- William Jennings Bryan

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

-- Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003

"If we have our own "why" of life, we can clear almost any "how."

- Friedrich Nietzshe

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

-- Gordon Parks

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

-- Arthur Ashe

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

-- Mike Ditka