My Favorite Quotes

Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a man is called to be a street cleaner, he should sweep the streets even as Michel Angelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well"

Gothe
"Look at man the way he is and he only becomes worse, look at him for they way he could be and then he will become what he should be"

Peter Koestenbaum
"Some people are more talented than others. Some are more educationally privileged than others. But we all have the capacity to be great. Greatness comes with recognizing that your potential is limited only by how you choose, how you use your freedom, how resolute you are, in short, by your attitude. And we are all free to choose our attitude."

African Proverb
"If there is no enemy inside then the enemy outside can do us know harm"

Hebrews 11:1 (New International Version of the Bible)
"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see"

Napoleon Hill
"What ever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve"

Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen"

Sir Winston Churchill
"We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are."

Thomas MaCauley
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he would never be found out."

Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"

Steven Covey
"It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others"

Ray Kroc
"The quality of an individual is reflected in he standards they set for themselves"

Unknown
"He is know fool who gives up what he can not keep to gain what he can not loose"

Brian Tracy
"Character is the ability to carry through on a resolution after the mood in which the resolution was made is past"

Unknown
"Individuals do not resist change, they resist being changed"

George Bernard Shaw
"Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer.
"Oh God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time"

Mack R. Douglas
"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it"

Peter F. Drucker
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans"

Vince Lombardi
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor"

Anthony Robbins
"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret"

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer.
"Oh God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time."

Sir Winston Churchill
"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues for upon it all others depend."

Daniel A. Janssen
"Confidence is the ability to act on your goals consistent with your values despite your feelings and situation."

Daniel A. Janssen
"An undecided mind is a dangerous way to live" (para-phrasing "an idol mind is the devils work shop - "a confused state is the devils work shop" or "a undecided state is the devils work shop")

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen"

Zig Ziglar
"When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult."

Jim Rohn
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."

Daniel A. Janssen
"Open your heart and mind, let the magic of your uniqueness, your creativity, and the power of choice work miracles in your life as you set your life's goals."

Aristotle
"Where the need of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation."

J.C. Penny
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you someone who will make history. Give me someone with out a goal and I will give you a stock clerk"

Orison Sweet Marden
"All who have acommplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high."

Stephen A. Brennan
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success"

Claude M. Bristol
"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end"

Thomas Carlyle
"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder"

Lewis Carroll
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter"

Nelson Demille
"We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps"

Napoleon Hill
"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it"

H. L. Hunt
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only who have greater designs"

Anthony Robbins
"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment"

Zig Ziglar
"Its a great shame how we burn up our worlds natural resources by using them up, a greater shame is how we humans waste our human resources by not using them"

Oliver Wendal Homes
"The great tragedy in America today is not the waste of our natural resources, though that is a great tragedy, the real tragedy is the waste of our human resources"

2 Peter 1:5-8 (New International Version of the Bible)
"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ"

Lao-Tzu
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"

Sir Winston Churchill
"We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are."

Mark Twain
"There is nothing training can not do, nothing is above its reach, it can turn bad morals into good, it can destroy bad principles and create good ones, it can lift men to angel ship"

Thomas Wolfe
"If a man has a talent and learns some how to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men have ever known"

Unknown
"Where there is know hope for the future there is know power for the present"

Aristotle
"Where the need of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation"

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

George Washington
"Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty"

Roscoe Drummond
"The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak"

Daniel A. Janssen
"A well thought through written plan of action is the difference between realizing your dream and wishful thinking"

Gloria Steinham (1934) Feminist writer
"Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even middle class plan for future generations but the poor can plan ahead only a few days or weeks"

Dwight D Eisenhower
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"

John F. Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining"

Bernard M. Baruch
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought"

Robert Collier
"Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in."

Napoleon Hill
"Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."

John Wooden
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail"

Jim Rohn
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much!

Prov 15:22
22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Passion

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 A.D.
"every great and commanding moment to the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm"

Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To live fully is to engage in the passions of one's time"

L.P. Jacks
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 A.D.
"You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power"

Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Daniel A. Janssen
"Life rewards us for the problems we solve"

Celestine Prophecy (Book)
"The problem in life isn’t in receiving answers, the problem is in identifying your current questions"

Carl Sagan
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"

Theodore Roosevelt
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing"

Sir Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Its not what can your country do for you but what you can do for your country."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."

Brian Tracy
"the potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some good"

Sandara Carey
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Stephen R. Covey
"The enemy of the best is the good."

William A. Foster
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

Sir Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility"

Albert Schweitzer
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will, his personal responsibility"

Confucius
"To put the world in right order, we must first put the nation in order, to put the nation in order we must put the family in order, to put the family in order we must first cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right"

Jim Rohn
"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."

Jim Rohn
"Success is a refined study of the obvious"

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people, and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a health child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have Succeeded."

Vince Lombardi
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will"

May V.Smith
"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary"

Dale Carnegie
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way"

Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value"

Thomas Wolfe
"If a man has a talent and learns some how to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men have ever known"

Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must use time creatively and forever realize that time is hope to do great things"

Zig Ziglar
"When you do the things you ought to do when you should do them, a time will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them"

Sir Winston Churchill
"This is no time for ease and comfort, this is time to dare and endure"

Harvey Mackay
"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back."

Earl Nightingale
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

Brian Tracy
"The word 'no' is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time."

Jim Rohn
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Unknown
"Never pitty a man who has everything that is important to him, but pitty a man who has everything but what is important to him.

Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth"

Roy Disney
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are"

Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value"

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer.
"Oh God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time."

Dr. Laura
"Emotions have no I.Q."

Goethe
"Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be."

Brian Tracy
"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some good."

Sandara Carey
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Marylin Ferguson
"Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable."

Unknown
"How do I know what I think, until I have heard what I’ve said"

Unknown
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift and that is why we call it the present"

Douglas MacArthur
"There is no security in this life only opportunity"

Matthew 7:7-8 (New International Version of the Bible)
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

St.Augustine 354-430A.D.
"Thou hast created us for thyself, and our heart can not be quieted till it find a response from thee"

Brian Tracy
"When a man with money meets up with a man with experience, the man with the experience is going to end up with the money and the man with money is going to end up with the experience"

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 A.D.
"Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood"

Immanual Kant 1724-1804 A.D.
"Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me"

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 A.D.
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time"

Saint Francis of Assisi 1182-1226
"Lord, grant that I may not seek so much to be understood as to understand"

Margaret Mead
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

Proverbs 27:17 NIV
"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another"