Misc.

“Don’t let what is immediately feasible to drive out what is ultimately desirable.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“Transforming your life is a marathon, not a sprint.”
Rick Pitino

“The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.”

Dr. Robert Holden

“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”

Thomas Fuller

“Use your smile to change this world, don’t let this world change your smile.”

Author Unknown

“The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.”

Author Unknown

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer

“We don’t see things the way they are.  We see things the way WE are.” 

Talmud

“Of all the liars in the world, the worst are our own fears.” 

Rudyard Kipling

“When we prioritize being loyal to a person or group over doing what we feel is right, we lose integrity.”
Stephen R. Covey

“Adversity will usually start to resolve itself when you begin to take action.”
Rick Pitino

“Good intentions are terrible things to waste.”
John Domenick

“It is better to think first than to think fast.”
Author Unknown


“If it ain’t broke, break it.”
Rick Pitino

“Good thoughts not acted upon mean squat.”
Kenneth Blanchard

“Most of us can instantly improve our communication skills simply by listening more and speaking less.”
Rick Pitino

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
Chinese Proverb

“You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything.”
Aaron Tippen

“How you relate to people in the workplace—both those above you and those below you—is vital, because you never know who might one day be your boss.”
Rick Pitino

“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.”
Whitey Burnham

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cherish what you need to know…even if it’s not what you’d like to hear.”
Unknown

“Act quickly, think slowly.”
Greek Proverb

“Our life is what our thoughts make of it.”
Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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

“You must get good at one of two things: planting in the spring or begging in the fall.”
Jim Rohn

“The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.”
Jim Rohn

“Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.”
Jim Rohn

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
Peter Ducker

“The true definition of insanity is someone who gets up every day and does the same thing over and over and gets the same lousy results.”
Unknown

“When we act on too many things at once, we wind up acting on nothing.”
John Izzo

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today.”
Chinese Proverb

“Don’t count on cramming—if something is important to you, do it now.”
George Beer

“When memories exceed dreams, the end is near.”Michael Hammer

“The problem with common sense is that it is not common.”
Mark Twain

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but it always robs today of its joy!”
Leo Buscaglia

“In each moment, we must ask what really matters and act accordingly.”
John Izzo

“Everything we do affects everything else. So, when we choose to love, whether our children or a stranger, we change the future.”
John Izzo

“Good listening is common sense but rarely common practice.”
Unknown

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
Stephen Covey

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
Unknown

“If the spiritual nature that we carry with us isn’t first and foremost in our lives, then I don’t think our priorities are correct.”
Bronco Mendenhall

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
Epictetus

“A pat on the back is worth a lot more than a kick in the fanny.”
Charles Nirenberg

“Some men obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment, more vigorous effort than before.”
Polybius

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”Eleanor Roosevelt

"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build trust of those who are present."Stephen R. Covey

“With life so short, why is the craft of living take so long to learn?”
Chaucer

“Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things that matter least.”
Goethe

“Sometimes we need to sweat the small stuff.”
Anonymous

“To get what we’ve never had we must do what we’ve never done.”
Anonymous

"Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values."
Stephen R. Covey

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln

“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.”
Italian Proverb

“I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.”
Martin Luther

"Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind."
Dale Carnegie

“I will plant only good seeds this day.”
Og Mandino

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
African Proverb

“People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound."
James Allen

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
Victor Borge

“What your children really want for dinner is you.”
Anonymous

“We must work at our responsible as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”
Gordon Hinckley

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
Goethe

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
Joseph Campbell

“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.”
Anwar Sadat

“Time management is really a misnomer. The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.”
Stephen R. Covey

"Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past!"
Marshall Goldsmith

“It’s not how much you do, but how much love you put into what you are doing.”
Mother Teresa

“Only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.”
Gordon B. Hinckley

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
Epictetus

“Mere wanting is hardly a guide for moral conduct.”
Todd D. Christofferson

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
W.T. Purkiser

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”Thomas S. Monson

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
William Feather

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”Epictetus

“Discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of every day moments.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Regardless of our circumstances, each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.”
Thomas S. Monson

“When love underlines our actions, everything gets better.”
Unknown

Business Strategy

“Few companies in any industry truly understand the enormous leverage of retaining clients.”
Fortune Magazine, December 1995

“Getting clients is only half the battle…keeping them is the real challenge. Keep what you’ve worked so hard to get.”
John Gamble

“To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.”
Confucius

“Any company that drives forward while looking out the rearview mirror will, sooner or later, run into a brick wall. Urgency comes when everyone knows there is a brick wall out there, but that the wall is far enough away so there is still time to turn the wheel and avoid the crash. Top management’s responsibility is to make sure that wall always appears just a little closer than it really is.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“To know and not to do, is not yet to know.”
Zen philosophy

"The best way to run an organization is also the best way to treat people."
Sherman Roberts

“Men cannot really long rest content with mediocrity once they see excellence is within their reach.”
Author Unknown

“Begin with the end in mind”
Stephen Covey

“People don’t care how much you know about them once they know how much you care about them.”
Harvey Mackay

"I have yet to find a man, whatever his situation in life, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he ever would do under a spirit of criticism.”
Charles M. Schwab

“If you make a sale you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”
Jim Rohn

“People do what you model and inspect, not what you expect.”
Anonymous

“Trust takes a long time to build, but it can be lost in a split second.”
John Gamble

“Compensation is what you give people for doing the job they were hired to do. Recognition, on the other hand celebrates an effort beyond the call of duty.”
Unknown

“Men and women want to do a good job, a creative job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.”
Bill Hewlett

“Bureaucracy blocks initiative and creativity at every turn.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“Empowerment without direction is anarchy.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“It’s not surprising that when a company’s mission is largely undifferentiated from that of its competitors, employees may be less than inspired. What value is a mission statement, if it is totally undifferentiated?”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“Every employee has the right to feel that he or she is contributing to the building of a legacy—something of value that is bigger and more lasting than anything that one could accomplish on one’s own. Many companies are beginning to realize that all their employees have brains. How many companies, understand that their employees have hearts as well?”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“One of the stepping stones to a world-class operation is to tap into the creative and intellectual power of each and every employee.”
Harold A. Poling

“People want to feel they’ve made a contribution—that they are doing worthwhile work. Few people are motivated only by money. People want to feel that what they do makes a difference in the world.”
Frances Hesselbein

“Helping human beings fulfill their potential is a moral responsibility, but it’s also good business. “
Ralph Stayer

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Albert Einstein

“When the rate of change inside your organization is less than the rate of change outside your organization, the end is in sight.”
Jack Welch

“It is vital that you motivate your people—customer, employee, vendors, suppliers—anyone who can contribute to the company’s success.”
Robert Evans

“In global competition the only defense is a vigorous offense.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“Don’t magnify the work to be done—simplify it.”
Richard Scott

“Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
Stephen R. Covey

“We are often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don’t even realize we’re in the wrong jungle.”
Stephen R. Covey

“Helping people be right is more productive than proving them wrong.”
Marshall Goldsmith

“Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create discomfort to obliterate complacency and thereby stimulate change and improvement before the external world demands it.”
Author Unknown

Success/Excellence

“It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our lives.”
Gordon B. Hinckley

“Consciously give thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.  The more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.”
Sarah Ban Breathnack

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

Zig Ziglar

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them in to the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, what’s in it for me?”

Brian Tracy

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make big choices in life.  Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.  Remember you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

Steve Jobs

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”

Sarah Breathnack

“Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.”

Abraham Lincoln 

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best.  If you’re not, pretend you are.”

Muhammad Ali

“It is better to try and do something and fail than to try and do something and succeed.”             Robert H. Shuller

 “Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

Arnold H. Glasow

“Every test in life makes us bitter or better, every problem can make us or break us.  The choice is always ours whether we become victims or victorious.”

Author Unknown

“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities to be great.  Seize common occasions and make them great!” 

Orison Marden

“Everything seems impossible until it is done.”

Nelson Mandela

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

Albert Einstein

“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.”

Will Rogers

“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.”

Author Unknown

“We are ultimately in charge of our own happiness.” 

Dieter F. Uchtdorf 

“We don’t need to wait to be happy until we reach some future point; happiness is already available to us—all the time.”  

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Do not become so focused on the finish line that you fail to find joy in the journey.”

Dieter Uchtdorf

“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”

Dennis Waitley

“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

Wayne Dyer

“Courage doesn’t always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”

Mary Anne Radmacher

“You never will be the best person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life.”

James G. Bilkey

“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.” 

Harold J. Smith

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” 

William Shedd

“Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.”

Author Unknown

“Mountains to climb are a great blessing in our lives because they nearly always lead to great opportunities.  Instead of hiding from them, we should say, give me this mountain, give me these challenges because in the end we know it will make us a better person.”

Author Unknown

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.  The hard part is doing it.”  Norman Schwarzkopf

“Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.”

Ron Serino

“When something bad happens you have some choices.  You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”  

Author Unknown

“If you think you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

Napoleon Hill

“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your attitude.”

Napoleon Hill

“If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.” 

Napoleon Hill

“Optimism is a magnet.  If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” 

Mary Lou Retten

“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.”J. Sidlow Baxter

“Embrace things in your life that drive you to achieve, and start letting go of those things that do not.”Dale Carnegie

“If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.”Francis Bacon

“We become what we think about.”
Florence Nightengale

“Never stop striving for the best that is within you.”Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and start adding things that bring joy in to your life.”Lisa Hammon

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”Unknown

“The most important decision you will make every day is how you will spend your time.”Unknown

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”Theodore Roosevelt

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
Sir Winston Churchill

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”John Keats

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”
Edward Gibbon

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
Aubrey C. Daniels

“Practice makes permanent—only perfect practice makes perfect.”Author Unknown

“It is better to try something great and fail than to try nothing great and succeed.”
Author Unknown

“Success in all things depends on preparation.”
David B. Haight

"True success is not necessarily about being the best at all cost. It's about DOING your best at all times. If you do that long enough, who knows, you might just end up being the best."
Tope Popoola

“Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.”
Danny Thomas

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”Chuck Swindoll

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Unknown

“Within the fruits of success are the seeds of failure.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“You might have big dreams, but you must understand that your long-term successes are a direct result of what you achieve every day.”
Rick Pitino

“Today’s success is often tomorrow’s failure.”
Rick Pitino

“Becoming successful is a process that never ends.”
Rick Pitino

“Anyone can be great for a day, a week, a month. But the people who ultimately will be successful are the ones who understand that success is a long-term commitment, a marathon instead of a sprint.”
Rick Pitino

“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela

“Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.”
Robert K. Cooper

“It is not enough to be good, when you have the ability to be great!”
Anonymous

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.”
Barbara Bush

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
Mark Twain

“We must look at change as possibility, a chance to be more successful.”
Rick Pitino

“With good habits, success becomes second nature.”
Rick Pitino

“We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.”
Jim Rohn

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
Jim Rohn

"I’m so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential.”
M. Russell Ballard

“Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better.”
Pat Riley

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley

“The height of your accomplishments will mirror the depth of you convictions.”
Unknown

“Failure is merely an invitation to try something again.”
Andrew J. Sherman

“Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Darrell Royal

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.”
Barbara Bush

“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.”
Denis Waitley

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”
Vince Lombardi

“Keep in mind that you are always saying no to something. If it isn’t to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the more fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best.”
Steven R. Covey

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Samuel Johnson

“The more we refuse to bend to the prevailing wind, the more opportunity for greatness can become an everyday occurrence.”
Dave Pelzer

“Approach every potential great achievement in a state of total confidence.”
Pat Riley

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”
Robert Collier

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“The key question is not, ‘Did I make all my dreams come true?’ The key question is, ‘Did I try?’”
Marshall Goldsmith

“Our choices have the undeniable power of transforming our lives.”
Jose Teixeira

“Vision without work is daydreaming. Work without vision is drudgery. Vision coupled with work will ensure your success."
Thomas S Monson

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not."
Dennis Waitley

“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
William Arthur Ward

“Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.”
Charles Schultz

“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.”
Booker T. Washington

“We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.”
Dieter F. Uchdorf

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

“Failure in life often comes because we fail to align our action with our conscience.”
Unknown

“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli

Service

“Service is about remarkable comebacks…the foul up followed by the heartfelt prompt fix is a lot more memorable even than getting it right the first time.”
Tom Peters

“Every Interaction is an opportunity for compassion."
Daniel Goleman

“Laughter and smiling will build instant rapport.”
Daniel Goleman

“We must love one another or die.”
W.H. Auden

“Treat people with integrity and decency, and generally they will respond in kind.”
Unknown

“If you are unhappy, get busy doing something for someone else. If you concentrate on yourself you will be unhappy, but if you focus on helping others you will find happiness. Happiness comes from serving and loving.”
John Izzo

“Fame without contribution has little meaning, but contribution without fame has its own reward.”
John Izzo

“The fact is, God didn’t create people to serve themselves. Everyone ultimately wants and needs to help others, and when they cannot, misery ensues.”
Patrick Lencioni

“When someone sees an act of kindness, it typically stirs in them the impulse to perform one, too.”
Daniel Goleman

“When we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind so seem smaller.”
Daniel Goleman

“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.”
Basil Rathbone

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up.”
Mark Twain

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
Sally Koch

Leadership

“Leadership is the art of making the impossible come true.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“Why we do things is probably more important than what we do.” 

Russell T. Osguthorpe

“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears—by listening to them.” 

Dean Rusk

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.” 

Author Unknown 

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” 

Peter F. Drucker

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams

“In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people…they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.”
Ken Blanchard

“People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.”
Unknown

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
John Maxwell

“The real key to your influence with me is your example, your actual conduct. Your example flows naturally out of your character, or kind of person you truly are—not what others say you are or what you may want me to think you are. It is evident in how I actually experience you.”
Stephen R. Covey

“In relationships, the little things are the big things.”
Stephen R. Covey

“If everyone else is doing it, don’t!”
Robert K. Cooper

"The minute you move from being a task-oriented professional to being a manager of people, it stops being about your individual talents, your successes, and starts being all about coaching, motivating, teaching, supporting, removing roadblocks, and finding resources for your employees. Leadership is about celebrating their victories and rewarding them; helping them analyze when things don’t go to plan. Their successes become your successes. Their failures are yours, too. Too many people today think leading is exclusively about their own performance."
Robert Joss

“Leadership is solving problems, and the day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you stop leading.”
Colin Powell

“What you are shouts so loudly in my ears, I cannot hear what you say.”
Emerson

“A true master teacher is not the one with the most students, but the one who has created the most masters.”
Andrew J. Sherman

“He who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others.”
Leib Lazarow

“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
Abraham Lincoln

“You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.”
Harry S. Truman

“Apologizing is the most magical, healing, restorative gesture human beings can make.”
Marshall Goldsmith

“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”
Marshall Goldsmith

“Don't look to become a person of success, look instead to
become a person of value.”
Albert Einstein

Teamwork

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

“Where there is convergence and focus, individual mediocrity may well sum up to collective brilliance. In their absence, individual brilliance may well sum up to collective mediocrity.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My team expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my competition. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our goals. I am never out of the fight.”   

Navy Seal Creed

“When we help another person, we help ourselves.”
Marshall Goldsmith

Education

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm Forbes

“Wisdom does not have to come when we are old; we can find it much sooner.”
John Izzo

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats

“Companies that don’t encourage employee education of all kinds are dumb.”
Tom Peters

“If you believe that everyone in the organization must perform to his or her fullest potential to make the organization hum then training—for everyone—is essential.”
General John M. Loh

“The book you don’t read won’t help.”
Jim Rohn

“Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.”
Jim Rohn

Inspirational/Motivational

“Your ordinary may be extraordinary to someone else. Never underestimate the difference you make.”
Don McKenna


“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."
Unknown



"Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
David Copperfield


"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
Arthur Ashe

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness is largely a matter of conscious choice.”
Jim Collins

“To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someon else’s spirit whenever you can.”

 Dodinsky, Author

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” 

Anais Nin

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” Jack Canfield

“I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”   

Christopher Columbus

“Raise your awareness to your own inner strength and beauty.”   

Dodinsky Author

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

William James

“You have a clean slate every day you wake up.  You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be.  You just have to decide and do it.  Today’s the day.   Say it: this is going to be my day.”

Brendon Burchard

“The footprints you leave each day influence others.  There is no person who at some time, somewhere, does not lead another.”

Unknown

“I am only one.  I cannot do everything but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do to interfere with what I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale

“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

“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything.  They just make the best of everything.”

Unknown

"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself."

Unknown

“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”

Dale Carnegie

“Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” 

Christian D. Larson 

“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.”  

Spencer Johnson

“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m possible”. 

Audrey Hepburn 

“We must be the change we want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi


“It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.”
J.K. Rowling


“Starting resource positions are a very poor predictor of future industry leadership.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future


“The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.”
Roy E. Moody


“Anyone running a small company should be enormously encouraged by the fact that there are so many examples of companies that overcame seemingly insuperable resource handicaps and built positions of global leadership.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future


“Only extraordinary goals provoke extraordinary efforts.”
Hamel and Prahalad, Competing for the Future


“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar


“You always can do more than you think you can do.”
Rick Pitino


“Not all dreams need to be reachable; they just have to fuel your fire, and provide direction and drive.”
Unknown


“What often determines our happiness in life is the step we take after a setback.”
John Izzo


“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
Jim Rohn


“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
Jim Rohn


“The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible.”
Richard M. DeVos


“We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.”
Vaclav Havel


“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
 Henry David Thoreau


“Little plans have no power to stir your blood.”
Robert K. Cooper


“Even when big dreams don’t come true—they almost always change us for the better.”
Robert K. Cooper


“We were born to make a difference, not just a living.”
Robert K. Cooper


“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson


“We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.”
Jim Rohn

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t.”
Jan Ashford

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”
Denis Waitley

“What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.”
Friedrich Schiller

“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
Thomas Carlyle

“Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind.”
Bob Proctor

“Courage is not something we have, it is something we gain one day at a time.”
Unknown

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
Orison Swett Marden

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
Ralph Emerson

“Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.”
Tim McCarver

"None of us is defined by our circumstances, nor are we defined by how other people perceive us. It is up to each one of us to define ourselves, and that is a life's work. Each of us has the ability to lead a dynamic life by pursuing our unique goals and dreams. There are no limits to what you can do."
Stedman Graham

Destiny

“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

“Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.”
Jacques Lusseyran

“You can run from your dreams in fear or you can run to your dreams with faith.”
Tina Downey

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."
Chinese Proverb

“It is what you do before the storm comes that matters most.”

Unknown

“We become what we think about.”  

Earl Nightingale

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work required is the same.” 

Carlos Castaneda

"Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein

“Even if your on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers


“Have the discipline to listen to your heart, and then have the courage to follow.”
Ron Polack


“Unless you change who you are, you will always have what you’ve got. We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are.”
Jim Rohn


“Lacking a compelling sense of direction, few employees feel a compelling sense of responsibility for competitiveness. Most people won’t go that extra mile unless they know where they are heading.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future


“As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
Stephen R. Covey


“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of energy and genius to draw upon of which we do not dream.”
William James


“It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts.”
Randy Pausch


“Nothing is more liberating than becoming the author of one’s own destiny.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.”
William James

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Joseph Campbell

“If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will get you there.”
Author unknown

“Never allow your history to dictate your future.”
Andrew J. Sherman

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint -- and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.”
Bob Proctor

"A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."
Napoleon Hill

“There are only two types of people in the universe—those who act and those who are acted upon.”
Unknown

"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."
Richard G. Scott

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
Denis Waitley

“You can’t change your situation if you do not change your mind.”
Unknown

“Whatever angers us, controls us.”
 Unknown

“Decision determine destiny. You can’t make a decision without consequences.”
 Thomas S. Monson

"Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. The desires we act on determine our changing, our achieving, and our becoming."
Dallin H. Oaks

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
Charles Dickens