Ability:  A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses - As A Man Thinketh

Ability:  Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do - John Wooden

Abundance:  The wealth of a nation cannot be stored in gold bars. It must remain in the spirit and attitude of the people; wholesome, hopeful, and reverent - Douglas Meador

Abundance:  To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing - Lilian Whiting

Abundance:  You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.  And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance

Achievement:  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

Achievement:  A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. - John Foster Dulles

Achievement:  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

Action:  Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got. - Jim  Rohn

Action:  When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.- Ronald Reagan

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.

Association:  If you would be successful, first you must walk hand-in-hand and side-by-side with successful people. - Nido Qubein

Attitude:  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

Attitude:  A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

Attitude:  A winner always has a plan.  A loser always has an excuse.

Belief:  One needs to be slow to form conviction, but once formed, they must be defended against the heaviest odds.- Mohandas Gandhi

Belief:  People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Belief:  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character:  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

Character:  A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. - The Knights of Pythagoras

Character:  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

Clarity:  I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.- Frank Lloyd Wright

Clarity:  Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.- Charles Mingus

Commitment:  How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%.- Vic Conant

Commitment:  I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.-Abraham Lincoln

Concentration:  Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.- Abraham Lincoln

Concentration:  Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention. - Jim Rohn

Confidence:  Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings- Samuel Johnson

Courage:  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

Courage:  Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.- Helen Keller 

Creativity:  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

Decision:  More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.- Anthony Robbins

Desire:  Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.- Napoleon Hill

Destiny:  Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny.- Carl Schurz

Determination:  Because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.- George E. Allen

Determination:  Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. - Mahatma Gandhi

Discipline:  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

Dream:  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

Dream:  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

Dream:  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

Education:  Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other.- Donald G. Smith

Education:  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

Eloquence:  Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.- Plato

Eloquence:  The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.- David Lloyd George

Example:  You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.- Oliver Goldsmith

Excellence:  A pint of example is worth a barrelful of advice.

Excellence:  Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.- John W Gardner

Experience:  Any experience can be transformed into something of value.- Vash Young

Experience:  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

Focus:  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

Focus:  Concentrate all your thoughts upon the workat hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.- Alexander Graham Bell

Forgiveness:  One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.- Bernard Baruch

Forgiveness:  The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.- Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness:  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom:  I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.- Nikos Kazantzakis

Friendship:  A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."- James Douglas Morrison

Friendship:  Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.- G. Randolf

Future: If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you. - Eric Allenbaugh

Future:  Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.- Brian Tracy

Generosity:  It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.- Jim Rohn

Generosity:  Nothing teaches character better than generosity.- Jim Rohn

Generosity:  You can't be too kind or too generous.- Patricia Fripp

Getting Started :  If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther. - John Wooden

Getting Started :  If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. - Robert Collier

Getting Started :  If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus

Giving:  Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.- Deepak Chopra

Giving:  Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.- Barbara Bush

Goals:  Begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey

Goals:  Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results..- Mark Victor Hansen

Goals:  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

Gratitude:  Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person. - BrianTracy

Gratitude:  Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.- Marian Wright Edelman

Gratitude:  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

Greatness:  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

Greatness:  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

Habits:  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

Habits:  A large part of virtue consists in good habits.  Barbara Paley

Happiness:  Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.- Mother Teresa

Happiness:  Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.- Storm Jameson

Happiness:  Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle

Health:  People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. - James Walsh

Health:  Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.- John F. Kennedy

Heroism:  A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heroism:  There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.- Mario Puzo

Honesty:  Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of Wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.- Thomas Jefferson

Honesty:  No legacy is so rich as honesty.-William Shakespeare

Hope:  Hope is that which makes us live today as if tomorrow were yesterday.- Anonymous

Hope:  Hope is the feeling that you will succeed tomorrow in what you failed at today. - Anonymous

Humility:  Power is dangerous unless you have humility."- Richard J. Daley

Imagination:  I am enough of an artist to draw freely uponmy imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein

Imagination:  One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be. - Denis Waitley

Influence:  Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.- Jim Rohn

Influence:  Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.- Jim Rohn