QUOTATIONS A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “ Yes”  merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.  Mahatma Gandhi A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. John C. Maxwell A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.  Nathaniel Hawthorne A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.  Russell H. Ewing A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.- Jack Dempsey A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one’s place of service and be true to one’s own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one’s true greatness.  Richard W. Shelly, Jr. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. Robert Hughes A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.  - John Maxwell A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.- Denis Waitley A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.- William Shakespeare A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.- James Douglas Morrison A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.- John D. Rockefeller A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.- Bible, Proverbs 15:1 A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.- Tom Morris A goal properly set is halfway reached.- Zig Ziglar A good book contains more real wealth than a good bank.  Roy L. Smith A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.  J. Hawes A GOOD leader inspires men to have confidence in him; A good leader lets every team member know exactly what his or her responsibilities are. A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. Henry S. M. Burns A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.  J. Hawes A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. - General George S. Patton A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. Milton Berle A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale A great leader will not be a leader of followers. He or she will be a leader of leaders. A great man will not trample upon a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.  Thomas Fuller A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  Walter Gagehot A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.  Mark Twain A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs A hero is a man who does what he can.  -- Roman Rollard A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.- Ralph Waldo Emerson A is for Abandon (abandon any other alternative plans) A large part of virtue consists in good habits.  Barbara Paley A leader considers killing time as a capital crime. Stan Toler A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Hill A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. Lao-Tze A leader never lets adversity get him down - except on his knees. Jim Williams A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. Rosalynn Carter A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough. Ronald Reagan A leaders actions speak louder than words. Stan Toler A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.- Denis Waitley A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. Vince Lombardi A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: Wife wanted. Next  day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: You can have mine. Anonymous 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 A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.- Victor Hugo A man masters nature not by force but by understanding.- Jacob Bronowski A man may fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.  John Burroughs A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.  The Knights of Pythagoras A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.- James Joyce A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.  Lord Chesterfield A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles M. Schwab A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.  Spanish Proverb A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.  Viktor Frankl A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. -Cardinal De Retz A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes himself. Alexander Graham Bell A man/woman who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. ~ Confucius A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.- John Foster Dulles A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.  Joan Welsh A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.  Goethe 1749-1832 A man’s own self is his friend, a man’s own self is his foe.- Bhagavad-gita A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s heaven for?  Robert Browning A man’s reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man’s character. In these reactions are revealed the man’s power to govern or his forced servility to yield. David O. MacKay A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.- John Foster Dulles A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.  Goethe 1749-1832 A man's own self is his friend, a man's own self is his foe.- Bhagavad-gita A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?  Robert Browning A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield. David O. MacKay A minute’s success pays the failure for years.   Robert Browning A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.  Desiderius Erasmus A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a  Yes  merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.  Mahatma Gandhi A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. - As A Man Thinketh A person who won’t stand for something will fall for anything. Zig Ziglar A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear. -- Brian Tracy A person’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it. James Moffatt A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill A pint of example is worth a barrelful of advice. A poem hangs on the wall at Mother Theresa's orphanage in India. For all who are called to lead, it is a great reminder of what we should do: .1. People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered (including me). Love them anyway. 2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. 3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. 4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. 5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. 6. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the littlest people with the littlest ideas. Think big anyway. 7. People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. 8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. 9. People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway. 10. Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the best you have anyway. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright A problem is a chance for you to do your best.- Duke Ellington A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.- Brendan Francis A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.  Joseph Hall A resolute determination is the truest wisdom.  Napoléon I A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. Jim Watkins A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.  John A. Shedd A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. Kahlil Gibran A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.Antoine De Saint-Exupery  (1900-1944, French aviator, writer) A stumble may prevent a fall.- Thomas Fuller A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.- Henry B. Adams A tongue three inches long can kill a man six feet tall. Japanese proverb A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. A winner always has a plan. A loser always has an excuse. Author Unknown A winner is always part of the answer. A loser is always part of the problem. Author Unknown A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. -- Larry Bird A winner says: It may be difficult but it's possible. A loser says: It may be possible but it's too difficult. Author Unknown A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.- Saadi A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. --Anonymous A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.  Francis Bacon A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.- Nancy Reagan Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.  Zig Ziglar Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz Accept everything about yourself-I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end-no apologies, no regrets. - Clark Moustakas Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.  General George Patton Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.- Maxwell Maltz Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation. Jack Niklaus Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.  Conrad Hilton Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.  Benjamin Disraeli Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.  Hans Selye Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.- Erica Jong Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. Jerry Frankhauser After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.  Cato the Elder After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just Age is more a matter of how you feel, how you think, and what's going on in your head than what's going on in your feet-although I wouldn't want to be challenged to a foot race this morning Gordon B. Hinckley Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - Dr. David Burns Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there. Samuel Insull All appears to change when we change. Henri-Frédéric Amiel All glory comes from daring to begin. - William Shakespeare All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.  Ralph Waldo Emerson All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing... not moving toward excellence.- Denis Waitley All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength and a clear conscience. --Hosea Ballou All people smile in the same language. Laughter is God's sunshine. All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. William S. Halsey All successful employers are stalking people who will do the unusual, people who think, people who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.  Charles M. Schwab All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. -- Sir Winston Churchill All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the past together again. So let’s remember: Don’t try to saw sawdust.- Dale Carnegie 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 All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. - Orison Swett Marden Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller Always be loyal to those who are absent, if you want to retain those who are present. Stephen Covey Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. - Abraham Lincoln Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.  Mark Twain An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.  William Dean Howells An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.  Stephen Covey An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.- Pope John Paul II An honest man is the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.- Henry Ford An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shotsCharles Kettering Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.- Benjamin Franklin Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott Announcing your dreams will recruit the people who will help you, and expose your enemies. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. Tyron Edwards Any experience can be transformed into something of value.- Vash Young Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.  Norman Vincent Peale Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.- Dale Carnegie Any time we feel twinges of resentment because we are too often asked to volunteer, it's time to remind ourselves that we CAN choose to change our behavior and say: NO ... a word that will do wonders for our self-esteem.- Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them. Golda Meir Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.  Henry Ford Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make something happen. Lee Iacocca Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.- Dale Carnegie As a child I was sculpted by an extremely controlling mother, yet I was simultaneously blessed with a squadron of guardian angels who constantly whispered Truth into my ‘ethereal ear.’ While my environment taught me bigotry, for example, I had an inner ‘Knowingness’ that allowed me to reject that heartless viewpoint ... even at a very early age.- Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go. Jim Rohn As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.- Jean Paul Richter As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Disraeli As a twig is bent the tree inclines.  Virgil As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.- Leonardo da Vinci As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.- Mahatma Gandhi As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.- Andrew Carnegie As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. Charles Morgan As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.  Dean L. Larsen As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.- Nelson Mandela ASSOCIATION: Call it success by association; the  people who strive for personal excellence will find a way to rub shoulders with the great people around them. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.  Martin Luther King, Jr. At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Neal A. Maxwell At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.  Jim Rohn Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. M. Russell Ballard Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association. Jim Rohn Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  Charles Swindoll banking. It's called marriage. James Holt McGavran Be a collector of good ideas, but don’t trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal. Jim Rohn Be ashamed to die until you have done something for humanity. General Douglas MacArthur Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.- Epictetus Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!- Thomas A. Edison Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.  A.M. Rosenthal Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.- Mother Teresa Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.  Plato Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.- Marie Curie Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.- Michael Caine Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. Jim Rohn Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.  John Wooden Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.  William James Be Prepared!- Boy Scout Motto Be Proactive.   Begin with the end in mind.   Put first things first.   Think win win.   Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood.   Synergize.   Sharpen the saw. Stephen Covey Be Proactive. Begin with the end in mind. Put first things first. Think win win. Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood. Synergize. Sharpen the saw. Stephen Covey Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.- Tony Alessandra Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person. -- Brian Tracy Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi Be the number one investor in your dreams. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. [Revelations 2:10] Bible Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.  George Eliot Be willing to give away something you possess, to receive something you desire. Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified bull-doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. Dr. A. B. Meldrum Beauty awakens the soul to act.- Dante Alighieri Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage – and that’s the same thing.  George Horace Lorimer because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.- George E. Allen Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.  Napoleon Hill Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.  Winston Churchill Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.- David Bach Begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.  James B. Conant Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.- Marian Wright Edelman Being defeated is often a temporary condition.  Giving up is what makes it permanent.  Marilyn vos Savant Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Beyond your regular vocational duties are responsibilities toward others-toward the community, the state, the nation, society in general, and the Church of which most of you are members. The attention you give to these, the energy you devote to these are of the essence of your character and your virtue. Gordon B. Hinckley Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else’s results.. - Mark Victor Hansen Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.  Ralph Waldo Emerson Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live. Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.- Bertrand Arthur William Russell Build your own dream instead borrowing others. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. Gordon B. Hinckley By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.  Lloyd Newell By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Mark Victor Hansen By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place -- it is a launching pad. -- Denis Waitley Calamity is the test of integrity.  Samuel Richardson Call it success by association; the  people who strive for personal excellence will find a way to rub shoulders with the great people around them. can't face each other, but still they stay together. Hemant Joshi capable of becoming, is the only end in life. ~~Robert Louis Steve Louis Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.- Harvey S. Firestone Captain Len Kaine US Navy (retired) President Golden Rule Society Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.- Gary Sinise Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person. If you cannot imagine, ‘This might happen to me,’ you are able to say to yourself with indifference, ‘Who cares?’ Eleanor Roosevelt Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.- Princess Diana Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.- Warren Buffett Champions don’t become champions in the field; they are merely recognized there. Bob Costas Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur Change will happen because you make it happen. Dr. Phil McGraw change, motivate, build future leaders, respect their associates, and persuade. They possess the qualities of greatness, focus, integrity, confidence in themselves and in their teams. Leaders are decisive, determined and focused. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.  James Michener Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will. Leo J. Muir Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.  Robert Freeman Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.  R.C. Samsel Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.  Jim Rohn Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.  Elbert Hubbard Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. Helen Douglas Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.  Phillips Brooks Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. Theodore Roosevelt Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.  Joan Didion Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. Christian Nestell Bovee Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.  Napoleon Hill Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.- Vincent Van Gogh Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them ... and they flew.- Guillaume Apollinaire Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.  Henry Ford Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other.- Donald G. Smith Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.- Alexander Graham Bell Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket. - Andrew Carnegie Concentration, in its truest, unadulterated form, means being able to focus the mind on one single solitary thing.- Komar Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.- Peter T. McIntyre Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something…hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.- Roger Staubach Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.- Brian Tracy Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Michael O’Brien Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Conflict cannot survive without your participation.- Wayne Dyer Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.  Jim Rohn Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. Josh Billings Constant and valiant living is necessary.  Jack H. Goaslind, Jr. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.- Pope John XXIII Contrary to the old saying that leaders are born not made, the art of leading can be taught and it can be mastered. General Mark W. Clark Control your destiny or somebody else will. - Jack Welch Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.Jim Rohn Courage is being scared to death — and saddling up anyway. John Wayne Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.- Eddie Rickenbacker Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.- Ambrose Redmoon Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent. ... It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...- Catherine Britton Courage is rightly considered the foremost of virtues, for upon it, all others depend.  Winston Churchill Courage is the atom of change. Bettina R. Flores Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.- Aristotle Creative ideas reside in people’s minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity. - Alex Osborn Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.  Rollo May Creativity means believing you have greatness.  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.  Samuel Johnson D is for Dare (dare to dream while others don't) Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time . . . It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo F. Buscaglia Debt is a prison best left as soon as possible. Debt is a willing servant but a cruel master.  Ezra Taft Benson Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H. L. Hunt Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. Burt Lawlor Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.  George E. Woodberry Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.  Helen Keller Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.  Josephus Daniels Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.  George F. Burns Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.  John F. Kennedy Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.  John F. Kennedy Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Rose Lane Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.- Napoleon Hill Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man’s training to accomplish.  George Clason 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 Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. -- Denis Waitley Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.  Anthony Robbins Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.  Paul J. Meyer Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.- Dale Carnegie Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. Brian Tracy Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.- Vince Lombardi Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.  Johann Von Goethe Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle Diligence is the mother of good luck.  Benjamin Franklin Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. Jim Rohn Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. Roy L. Smith Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak and esteem to all. - George Washington Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!  Zig Ziglar Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self esteem, and personal satisfaction.  Brian Tracy Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. Lenore Hershey Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one’s spirit, not a result of one’s rank in human affairs.  Sherman Finesilver Do not fear mistakes. There are none.- Miles Davis Do not focus on coupons, discounts and negotiating. Pay a fair price joyfully. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  Muriel Strode, American Author At the Roots of Grasses Do not let the future be held hostage by the past. Neal A. Maxwell Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.  John Wooden Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.- George Bernard Shaw Do not wait; the time will never be ‘’just right.’’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. Napoleon Hill Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.  Lou Holtz Do the next thing.- John Wanamaker Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are Do you know what real poverty is? It is never to have a big thought or a genuine impulse. --Jerome P. Fleishman Do You Set the Same Goals Every Year? Don’t change your dreams, change your approach! Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed-there’s so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard Do, or do not. There is no try. Yoda Don’t accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.  James Allen Don’t agonize, organize.- Florynce Kennedy Don’t be a blueprint. Be an original.- Roy Acuff Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against not with, the wind.  Hamilton Mabie Don’t be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it’s the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness. Brian Tracy Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner Don’t change your dreams, change your approach! Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.  Erma Bombeck Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.  Louis E. Boone Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. Jim Rohn Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Jim Rohn Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.  Richard L. Evans Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough! Jim Rohn Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.- Will Rogers Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.- Colin Powell Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.- Satchel Paige Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be. Jim Rohn Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it. Jim Rohn Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much. Jim Rohn Don’t spend your precious time asking ‘Why isn’t the world a better place?’ It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is ‘How can I make it better?’ To that there is an answer.- Leo F. Buscaglia Don’t use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. Jim Rohn Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.  James Allen Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness. Brian Tracy Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.  Erma Bombeck Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.  Louis E. Boone Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. Jim Rohn Don't just read the easy stuff. You may entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Jim Rohn Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.  Richard L. Evans Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough! Jim Rohn Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.- Will Rogers Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.- Colin Powell Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.- Satchel Paige Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. Jim Rohn Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones. Jim Rohn Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.- Leo F. Buscaglia Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. Jim Rohn Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. ~ James Dean Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. John Ruskin Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann von Goethe DREAM:  D is for Dare (dare to dream while others don't)   R is for Relentless (relentlessly pursue your dream no matter what)   E is for Excellence (strive for excellence in all you do)   A is for Abandon (abandon any other alternative plans)   M is for Measure (constantly measure where you are in your dream journey) DREAM:  Divine   Revelation   Empowering   A   Man and woman Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.  Zig Ziglar Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.- Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.  Raymond Holliwell Each problem has hidden in an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity. Joseph Sugarman Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. Charles Prestwich Scott Education is a vaccine for violence.- Edward James Olmos Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.- Robin Cook Education must precede motivation. Jim Rohn Effective leaders do the important things first. Jim Rohn Effective leaders have come to realize that a pat on the back has enough force to propel an associate towards excellence. Jim Rohn Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.  John F. Kennedy Either by word or deed, the best leaders are those who can inspire others to reach for something greater than themselves. Jim Rohn Either you run the day or the day runs you. J. c. McPheeters Employers do not want employees-they want what they believe a given employee will do for them-now and in the future. Employers are buying a promise... a promise of what an employee says he or she will contribute to the organization. Over time, this promise will be kept, or it won't. If the promise is not kept, you're history. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.  Norman Vincent Peale Enthusiasm is the highest paid quality on earth. Frank Bettger Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.  Victor Kiam Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America. Ronald Reagan Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character. Hugh B. Brown Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.  Coleman Cox Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait or them? Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.  - The Dalai Lama Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.- Napoleon Hill Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. John Ruskin Every great man is unique. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every leader should be a mentor. But more important, every leader should have a mentor Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Voltaire  (1694-1778) Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles. Og Mandino Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. William Channing Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy! Brian Tracy Every really new idea looks crazy at first.- Abraham H. Maslow Every winner has scars. - Herbert N. Casson Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.  Mahatma Gandhi Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Jeremy Collier Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it. Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.- Princess Diana Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  Leo Tolstoy Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that – at least in the early days -- you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts.- John Cummuta Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.- Chet Atkins Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available. All you have to do is go to the library. And there's probably a library in every neighborhood. Jim Rohn Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.- David R. Hawkins Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.—Christian Nevell Bovee Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. John W Gardner Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.- Perry Paxton Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.  Brian Tracy Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington Excellence resides in quality, not in quanity.  The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.  Gracian Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. -- Denis Waitley Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.- Minna Antrim Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.- Aldous Huxley Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!- Clive Staples Lewis Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.  Charles DeGaulle Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.  Zig Ziglar Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Jim Rohn Failure is success if we learn from it.  Malcolm Forbes Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.  Truman Capote Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.  Lao-Tze Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford Failure is the path of least resistance. James M. Barrie Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success…- John Keats Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitley Fall down seven times; stand up eight times.- Japanese Proverb Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.  Theodore Roosevelt Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.- Kamran Hamid Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. William Congreve Fear of success holds back more people than fear of failure ever did. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -- William Arthur Ward Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.  James Corbett Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.  Casey Stengel First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.  Epictetus First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.  Rob Gilbert First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.- Leo Rosten Fixing your objective is like identifying the North Star - you sight your compass on it and then use it as the means of getting back on track when you tend to stray.- Marshall Dimock Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.- Dale Carnegie Focused leaders usually do not lack followers; people with a mind to work naturally gravitate to someone who is able to give them good directions. Stan Toler Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth. -- Mark Victor Hansen For a hundred that can bear adversity there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.  Thomas Carlyle For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.  Johann Goethe For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16] Bible For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.- Ralph Waldo Emerson For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead…- Thomas Jefferson For knowledge, too, is itself power.  Francis Bacon For leaders honesty matters more than success. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.- Paul Boese Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.  Jim Rohn Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. -- Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…. By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.Gordon B. Hinckley Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.- Jon Kabat-Zinn Generous people are rarely mentally ill people  Karl Menninger Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.- Georges Louis Leclerc Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed. Jim Rohn Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. George Bernard Shaw