William Faulkner

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Feather
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Henry Ford
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
"There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"You can t build a reputation on what you re going to do."

Michael J. Fox
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is
surrendered.

Anatole France
"An education isn t how much you have committed memory, or even how much you know. It s being able
to differentiate between what you know and what you don t."
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

Brendan Francis
"If you have talent, use it in every which way possible. Don t hoard it. Don t dole it out like a miser.
Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."

Felix Frankfurter
"There is no inevitability in history except as men make it."

Victor E. Frankl
"This the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose
one's own way."
"We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting
others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient
proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: "The last of his freedoms - to choose one's
attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

Benjamin Franklin
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
"A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave
contentedly."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to no one."
"Diligence is the mother of good luck And God gives all things to industry. So plow deep while sluggards
sleep And you shall have corn to sell and to keep."
"Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them."
"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
"Glass, china and reputations are easily cracked, and never mended well."
"Great hopes make everything possible."
"I have generally found that a man who is good at an excuse is good at nothing else."
"If a man empties his purse inot his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest."
"If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do
things worth the writing."
"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
"Observe all men; thyself most."
"Often, genius is nothing more than a greater aptitude for patience."
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall
scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
"When a man boasts of what he'll do tomorrow we should like to find out what he did yesterday."
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
"Well done is better than well said."

Tommy Franks
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy."

Frederick II
"A battle is lost less through casualties than by discouragement."

Sigmund Freud
"Thought is behavior in rehearsal."

Michael Friedsam
"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it."

Robert Frost
"I always entertain great hopes."
"I m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week."
"The reason that worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

James A. Froude
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one."

R. Buckminster Fuller
"Dare to be naove."

Thomas Fuller
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
"A stumble may prevent a fall."
"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheefully."
"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."
"Great hopes make great men."

John Fuqua
"Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's anyway to get above the pack. My vision was always well
beyond what I had any reason to expect."
"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible."

Frank Gaines
"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible."

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost
everybody gets busy on the proof."
Galileo Galilei
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

Indira Gandhi
"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."

Mohandas Gandhi
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."
"Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next step."
"It is the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive
resolves itself into crystal clearness."
"Let us become the change we seek in this world."
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest
odds."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Jerry Garcia
"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one
who does what you do."

Herbert Gardner
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening, and you can tell them almost anything."

James Garfield
"Things don t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."

Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. "

Judy Garland
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

John Seman Garns

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."
"There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes."

Bill Gates
"Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't
defeated by it. You're learning from it."
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Charles de Gaulle
"One cannot govern with buts."

Lou Gehrig
"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."
"Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
"You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it."
Genoese Proverb
"It is better to wear out one s shoes than one s sheets."

David Lloyd George

"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done, and the worst is that which delays them."

Michael Gerber
"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don t know enough about finance,
marketing, management, and operations -- they don t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but
that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me
that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren t so because of what they know but because
of their insatiable need to know more."

Lou Gerstner
"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."

Jean Paul Getty

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going 60 miles an hour, or is the train
going 60 miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
"When you stick your head above the crowd, you can expect a few tomatoes thrown your way."

Edward Gibbon
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Kahlil Gibran
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the
pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or
the sharp stones on life's path."
"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and
tomorrow is today's dream."
"To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by
your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies."
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he
aspires to."
"Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so
much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. "

Mimfa A. Gibson
"Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas. "

Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
"There is no work of art that is without shortcuts."

Rob Gilbert
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Joe Girard
"The elevator to success is out of order. You ll have to use the stairs one step at a time."
Arnold H. Glasgow
"An idea not coupled with action will become no bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."
"Make your life a mission, not an intermission."
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken to hatching the egg, not by smashing it."

Robert H. Goddard
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of
tomorrow."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness, and opacity: all that is done with
life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality, transfiguration, and transparency."
"Behavior is a mirror, in which everyone shows his image."
"Daring ideas are like chessman moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
"Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself greater than he is."
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises
from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a
tower, and have spent no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
"Our life resembles the Sybylline Books: the less there is left of it, the more precious it becomes."
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help
that would never otherwise have occurred. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it."
"There is nothing so frightening as ignorance in action."

Ray Goforth
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who
are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

Vincent van Gogh

"All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness, and opacity: all that is done with
life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality, transfiguration, and transparency."
"Behavior is a mirror, in which everyone shows his image."
"Daring ideas are like chessman moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
"Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself greater than he is."
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
"I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished."
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises
from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a
tower, and have spent no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
"Our life resembles the Sybylline Books: the less there is left of it, the more precious it becomes."
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help
that would never otherwise have occurred. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it."
"There is nothing so frightening as ignorance in action."
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Robert Goizueta
"Judge the results. We get paid to produce results. We don't get paid to be right."
"In real estate, it's location, location, location. In business it's differentiate, differentiate, differentiate."
Ruth Barrack Golden
"By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny."

Oliver Goldsmith
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

Jane Goodall
"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give
up, you will find a way."

Paul Goodman
"Just the other day I listened to a young fellow sing a very passionate sonh about how technology is killing
us. But before he started, he bent down and plugged in his electric guitar into the wall socket."

Jim Goodwin
The impossible is often the untried.

David Starr Gordon

"The world stands aside and lets anyone pass who knows where he is going."

William Gore
"You promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility."

Howard Gossage
"Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them."

John B. Gough
"You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to
ride with him to wealth or influence."

Gracian
"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door."
"Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another s fame."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Those who come first are the heirs of Fame; the others get only a younger brother s allowance."

Billy Graham
"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the
unpleasant, overcome the unexpected and outlast the unbearable."

Katherine Graham
"o love what you do and feel that is matters how could anything be more fun."

Ulysses S. Grant
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the
gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

Heber J. Grant
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."

E. M. Gray
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them
either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
Albert Gray
"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like
to do."

Dennis Green
"The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching."

"Mean" Joe Greene

"You have to make it happen."

Wayne Gretzky
"I miss all the shots I don't take."
"One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in."
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is."

Richard E. Griggs
"Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan."

Andrew Grove
"Most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They
fritter away their momentum and their valuable resouorces while attempting to make a decision."

"The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it."

"You have to pretend you're 100% sure. You have ot take action; you can't or hedge your bets. Anything
less will condemn your efforts to failure."

Gene Hackman
"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."

Alexander Haig
"I haven't changed my style in 20 years and that style is to get mad when things go wrong."

Edward Everett Hale

"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can still do something; and because I
cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."

Alex Haley
"History is written by the winners."

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Marquis of Halifax (George Savile)

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."
"It is best for great men to shoot over, and for lesser men to shoot short."

Joyce Clyde Hall

"Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured
in time."
"If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't."

William Frederick Halsey

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."

Vijali Hamilton
"We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations,
more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime."

Mia Hamm
"Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time."
"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal."

Dag Hammarskjold
"The longest journey is the journey inward."
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the
far horizon will find the right road."

Oscar Hammerstein
"If you don t have dream how can you make a dream come true?"

John Hancock
"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life."

Charles Handy
"Learning happens all through life unless we block it. Organizations therefore need, consciously, to become
learning organizations, places where change is an opportunity, where people grow while they work."

Mark Victor Hansen

"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results."
"Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them."
"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you
most want to be."

Rick Hansen
"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible
to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break."

Michael Hanson
"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that
action until the goal is reached. The key is action."

Corra Harris
"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."

Sydney J. Harris
"A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice
to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost' and say 'I lost it.'"
"Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a
wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall."

H. G. Hasler
"You cannot have success without the failures."

S. I. Hayakawa
"Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's."
F. A. Hayek
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."

Helen Hays
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

William Hazlitt
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world