Just know, when you truly want success, youll never give up on it.

No matter how bad the situation may get. - Unknown Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown

I dont regret the things Ive done, I regret the things I didnt do when I had the chance. Unknown Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want. Unknown One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it. - Unknown Good things come to those who wait greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen. - Unknown Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. - Denis Waitley In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby Go where you are celebrated not tolerated. If they cant see the real value of you, its time for a new start. Unknown Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.. Unknown The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra

Forget all the reasons it wont work and believe the one reason that it will. - Unknown I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them Im doing it myself. Albert Einstein The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking. Dont settle. Steve Jobs Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it. Unknown When you say Its hard, it actually means Im not strong enough to fight for it. Stop saying its hard. Think positive! - Unknown Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. - Unknown Dont worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you dont even try. Jack Canfield The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible. Joel Brown Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you cant see it yourself? Unknown We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless. - Unknown

Being happy doesnt mean that everything is perfect. it means that youve decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Unknown Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you dont have a plan. Larry Winget Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after its said, the MOMENT after its missed and the TIME after its gone. Be Careful! Unknown Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say. Unknown Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy. - Unknown Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools. Unknown Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around Unknwon Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have. Unknown The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all. Unknown Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1. - Unknown No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. Thats why Im here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself. - Unknown Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Steve Jobs Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The common question that gets asked in business is, why? Thats a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not? -Jeffrey Bezos You miss 100% of the shots you dont take. Wayne Gretzky Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. W. Clement Stone Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans. John Lennon We become what we think about. Earl Nightingale Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Mark Twain Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. John Maxwell If you do what youve always done, youll get what youve always gotten. Tony Robbins The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen Dont wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill Winning isnt everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Christopher Columbus Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn Whether you think you can or you think you cant, youre right. Henry Ford The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing. Thats why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. Pablo Picasso If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Henry Ford The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. Erma Bombeck Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, Whats in it for me? Brian Tracy Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. Ancient Indian Proverb Believe you can and youre halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt Everything youve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. George Addair We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato Once you choose hope, anythings possible. Christopher Reeve Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They

told me I didnt understand the assignment, and I told them they didnt understand life. John Lennon Fall seven times and stand up eight. Japanese Proverb When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. Helen Keller Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. Confucious How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. Aristotle If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb You cant fall if you dont climb. But theres no joy in living your whole life on the ground. Unknown Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. Jamie Paolinetti Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison

Whats money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan I didnt fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Benjamin Franklin In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. Chinese Proverb There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot You become what you believe. Oprah Winfrey I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Vincent van Gogh A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. Unknown It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. Ann Landers If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. Abigail Van Buren Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama You cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou Dream big and dare to fail. Norman Vaughan Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. Teddy Roosevelt The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any. Alice Walker

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem Its your place in the world; its your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. Mae Jemison You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try. Beverly Sills Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses The question isnt who is going to let me; its who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford Its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, Im possible! Audrey Hepburn The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Zig Ziglar We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein Whether you think you can or think you cant, youre right. - Henry Ford I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Goethe You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. - Japanese Proverb In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet. - Isaac B. Singer Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well. - Unknown Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. - Unknown

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined. - Unknown Experience is what you get when you dont get what you want. - Dan Stanford Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. - Albert Einstein 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 If youre going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might a s well laugh about it now. - Marie Osmond Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy Goodman If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. - E. Joseph Cossman What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson We judge of mans wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter. - Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, its time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard B. Sheridan

Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Act or accept. - Anonymous Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. - Tim Blixseth The world is more malleable than you think and its waiting for you to hammer it into shape. - Bono Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. - Dr Phil Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey 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. - Norman Vincent Peale Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world. - Anonymous Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist I cant understand why people are frightened by new ideas. Im frightened by old ones. - John Cage Fall down seven times, get up eight. - Japanese Proverb The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. - Unknown The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Unknown Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they dont want to do it. - Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Dr. Denis Waitley Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but dont quit. - Conrad Hilton Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching. - Unknown Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. - Mario Cuomo Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Richard Bach Vision doesnt usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others. - Dr. Michael Norwood Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr. Joyce Brothers Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Flops are a part of lifes menu and Ive never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. - Rosalind Russell Cause Change & Lead Accept Change & Survive Resist Change & Die Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but youre still trying, keep it up! Youre right on track. - Matthew Keith Groves An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. - Bill Bernbach An obstacle is often a stepping stone. - Prescott Life is trying things to see if they work Ray Bradbury If you worry about yesterdays failures, then todays successes will be few. Anonymous Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Dennis P. Kimbro We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Machiavelli. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi You are what you think about all day long. Dr. Robert Schuller What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day - Robert Frost Ive learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. - Maya Angelou The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney Harris Dont let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca Do first things first, and second things not at all. - Peter Drucker. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. - Fosters Law Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. - Joe Clark

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill Positive anything is better than negative thinking. - Elbert Hubbard People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who wish to sing, always find a song. - Swedish Proverb If youre going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire Enduring habits I hate. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882 There is no education like adversity. - Disraeli He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Author Unknown Reader contributions: The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. - W. Somerset Maugham Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen. - Bar Rafaeli If youve got it. use it. If you dont got it, then get it! - Reader submitted

Son, if you dont have time to do it right, when will you have time to redo it? - Readers grandfather said this, and I LOVE IT Faith held solely is the begining of action. - Reader submitted Positivity is all about overlooking the negetive fact. - Reader submitted Life is all about up and doing. - Reader submitted You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man! - Reader submitted Life is not about ALL the wrong moves you made, Life is about the one right move that made ALL the difference. - James Lockhart Be humble enough to admit youre not perfect, but determined enough to strive to be perfect. - Babsie Burke (reader) If you cant sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Sh epherd. - Babsie Burke (reader) Life is a journey, its not a race. Walk through it. - Reader submitted Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on editing your attitude and gratitude so as to sail through. - Reader submitted The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. - Reader submitted (I really like this one, thanks Sandiso) It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.