Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Dr. Robert Schuller

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why
not?"
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything
but the second-best.
Doris Lessing

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

I am the greatest!
Muhammad Ali

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all
meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within
us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our
own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

We are what we think.

Buddha

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

We tend to get what we expect.

Norman Vincent Peale

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Jackson

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

We become what we think about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man
of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the
soul.
Democritus

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns
Intimate Connections.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace/Quintus Hortius Flaccus

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it

Author Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure.
Colin Powell

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou
canst not then be false to any man.
William ShakespeareGood, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and
your better is best.
Tim Duncan

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

Things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
Charles Austin Bates

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. 

Swedish Proverb

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Thomas Jefferson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you
don't have any seeds
Norman Vincent Peale

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently
begin again.
Henry Ford

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson
Writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.

It's not the situation…… it's your reaction to the situation.

Bob Conklin

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill

If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it.

Albert Einstein

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it.
Christine Frankland

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!

Winston Churchill

Knowledge itself is power.

Francis Bacon

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Seneca

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Green Hubbard

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action

David Seabury

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Latin Proverb

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that
commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore
Rocky Marciano

When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top
Author Unknown
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Motivational Quotations

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a

young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. 

That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond

your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

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

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great

work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by

going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain

dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited
with sparks.
 Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, 

is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and

need.
Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,

take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their

disappointments. 
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by 

turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections

must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be
made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb
 Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

We are still masters of our fate.

We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream

of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as

a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

 
We call ourselves a “capacity building” organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For
example, in 30 years, I don’t think I have signed a check for the company. 
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh - Employee - Motivational - Management - Companies - Leadership

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents
within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
Mary Kay Ash - Belief - Optimistic - Motivational

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as
your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash - Belief - Motivational - Ambition

Don't quack like a duck.. soar like an eagle.

Ken Blanchard - Ambition - Motivation

The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe
in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.
Tim Blixseth - Motivational - Belief - Success - Self Help

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. 
Gautama Buddha - Thinking - Life - Motivational - Inspirational - Optimistic

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Chin-Ning Chu - Action - Motivation - Fear

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Bill Clinton - Economy - Knowledge - Motivational

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our
country.
Bill Clinton - Responsibility - Encouragement - Motivational

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and
they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book,
which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a
reactor in somebody else's.
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Life - Money - Famous - Motivational

The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded
passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they
work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a
spring in your step.
Jim Collins - Commitment - Passion - Confidence - Motivational - Thinking - Work

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the
one to do it.
Felix Dennis - Rich - Optimistic - Positive - Confidence - Determination - Motivational - Belief

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney - Action - Motivational

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper
then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't
change," you stay stuck.
Louise Hay - Love - Thinking - Childhood - Strength - Change - Motivational

Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation.
Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things
bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.
Louise Hay - Motivational - Thinking - Affirmation - Self Help - Self Control - Optimistic - Life

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that
or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
Hugh Hefner - Dreams - Life - Motivational - Family
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so
many other people.
Hugh Hefner - Dreams - Life - Motivational - Interesting

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail
once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill - Defeat - Attitude - Failure - Planning - Goals - Motivational

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Napoleon Hill - Goals - Motivational - Desire - Achievement

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful
things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.
Napoleon Hill - Thinking - Self
Help - Goals - Motivational - Desire - Achievement - Mind - Belief - Power - Rich - Purpose

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you
may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich - Motivational - Action - Now - Inspirational - Work

Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a
person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make
money.
Takafumi Horie - Money - Poor - Motivational

I just know that there are a lot of people out there who are younger than I am, and I wish to be a role
model for them. If they have a dream, I want to help them keep that motivation high, so that they can
realize their dream. I want to show people that they CAN have fun in life.
Takafumi Horie - Motivational - Help - Encouraging

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people
show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out
of harmony with intention.
Aldous Huxley - Life - Motivational - Luck - Self Control

Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless.

Aldous Huxley - Motivational - Self Help - Problems - Literature

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca - Management - Motivational - People

Failure is a word I don't accept.

John H. Johnson - Failure - Motivational

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I
go for it.
Magic Johnson - Pressure - Solutions - Motivational Quotes 

I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success
is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a
young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she
works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.
John H. Johnson - Motivational - Work - Success - Commitment

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I’ve met, and I think that I thrive on
that.
Michael Jordan - Competitive - Great - Motivational

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game
will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the
game, and in some ways that's about life too.
Michael Jordan - Motivational - Sports - True - Life

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy - Change - Life - Motivational 

When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I
started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than
somebody who inherited.
Kirk Kerkorian - Motivational - Family - Ambition - Encouragement - Strength

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy
to get it done.
Ralph
Lauren - Dreams - Leadership - Vision - Achievement - Inspirational - Power - Energy - Motivational - Con
viction

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with
my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
Og Mandino - Questions - Accomplishments - Miracles - Motivational - Spiritual

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as
their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation. 
Michael Milken - Wealth - Rich - Goals - Motivation

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.
Lakshmi Mittal - Leadership - Motivational

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The
gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.
Norman Vincent Peale - Life - Motivational - Work

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture
tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture.
Norman Vincent Peale - Success - Motivational - Self Control - Commitment

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Ross Perot - Motivational - Optimistic -
Broke is normal. Why be normal?
Dave Ramsey - Poverty - Motivational

 tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving
to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw - Ambition - Motivational - Goals

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your
dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country
as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Li Ka Shing - Motivational - Profits - Encouragement

People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives
advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they
can feel good about themselves
Mr T - Help - Motivational - Inspirational - Encouragement

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have
done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at
understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
Brian Tracy - Learning - Leadership - Skill - Jobs - Motivational

Ever notice how your senses are heightened when you are in challenging situations? You're experiencing
an adrenaline rush that gives you extra energy. If you see every day as a challenge, you’d be surprised
how efficient you can become, and how much can be accomplished.
Donald Trump - Challenges - Motivational - Interesting 

We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many there are, so let's start making the
most of our Todays!
Ivana Trump - Life - Thinking - Motivational

Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really
doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?
Ivana Trump - Life - Motivational - Change

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 - Ambition - Pessimistic - Great - Motivational 

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

Ken Wilber - Inspirational - Motivational

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who
from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey - Responsibility - Motivational - Self Help - Rich - Poverty

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each
of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one
another. And I know for sure that there is no them.. there's only us.
Oprah Winfrey - Encouragement - Motivational - Fear - Philanthropy 

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an
environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have
inside of us.
 Muhammad Yunus - Optimistic - Encouragement - Motivational - Potential

Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can
influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.
Muhammad Yunus - Motivational - Change - Important - Potential

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world.. all we have to do is to free them from the chains
that we have put around them.
Muhammad Yunus - Poverty - Encouragement - Motivational - Opportunity - Potential

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what
you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind. 
Zig Ziglar - Change - Motivational

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move
up.
Zig Ziglar - Motivational - Goals - Inspirational

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on
shooting.
Zig Ziglar - Motivational - Action - Encouragement

When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on
the way.
Zig Ziglar - Motivational - Problems - Solutions

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar - Motivational - Attitude 

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing.. that's why we recommend it
daily.
29 Motivational Quotes
Zig Ziglar - Motivational - Encouragement - Self Help - People

for Business and Work

   
Some days a motivational quote can provide a quick pick-me-up for employees and even management.
They can be a breath of fresh air when it comes to a drab afternoon. These are also a great way to jazz
up a newsletter or a memo or even to simply print and attach to a bulletin board. Using quotes like these
are perfect ways to create a motivational and successful work environment. As Mr. Rick Pitino says "The
only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why
they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different." --Rick Pitino

Motivational Quotes:

Mahatma Gandhi: You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Jim Stovall: You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their
successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

Robert Frost: "The only way around is through."

Warren Buffett: "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too
many things wrong."

Les Brown: "You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

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

Charles F. Kettering: "Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."

Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Jim Rohn: "You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."

William Hazlitt: "Who likes not his business, his business likes not him."

Denis Waitley: "Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what
makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

Le Iacocca: "Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

Dwight D.: "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they
want to do it."

Drucker: "The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly
dangerous thing is asking the wrong question."

Max Schmelling: "Why did I want to win? Because I didn't want to lose!"

J. Paul Getty: "To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible
to know about that business."

Pierre Corneille: "To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

Tony Dorsett: "To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you,
something to inspire you."

James Broughton: "The only limits are, as always, those of vision."

George Kneller: "To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for
granted."

Peter McWilliams: "To the degree we're not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control
of us than we have over ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth: "To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most
difficult."

Tryon Edwards: "To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and
successfully."

Spanish Proverb: "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."

Lyndon B. Johnson: "The noblest search is the search for excellence."

Charles M. Schwab: "The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not
likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life."

Chinese Proverb: "The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the
earth."

John Naisbitt: "The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the
hands of many."

Henry Ford: "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can
give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

Many employers will add these quotes inside the employees’ paycheck envelope. Sometimes it may be a
motivational quote, other times a silly antidote. Include employee birthdays or other important events to
help your employees feel a part of the team.

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Motivational Business Quotes

Here are some of our favorite motivational busines quotes.

““I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential
until it cries for mercy.””
- Og Mandino

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

- Tony Robbins

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other
people get what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
- Suze Orman

“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
- Anthony Robbins

“If you can imagine it, you can acheive it, if you dream it, you can become it.”
- William Ward

We hope you enjoyed this special page dedicated to motivational business quotes.

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You know those sayings that just inspire you the minute you hear them? The ones that
make you think, “I can do it!” Read below for some of the best motivational business
quotations and be inspired. Enjoy!

1. Business is more exciting than any game – Lord Beaverbrook

2. It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree
to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics – Ren Mulford Jr.
3. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not
frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were
– David Rockefeller
4. If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about
tomorrow – Isaac Mophatlane
5. Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while
doing it, is a huge blessing – Magic Johnson
6. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we
make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same – Carlos Castaneda
7. Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools..
but they must be kept to a minimum – Jeffrey Immelt
8. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are
things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and
burning desire, can be translated into riches – Napoleon Hill
9. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the
one most responsive to change – Charles Darwin
10. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while,
you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is
habit. Unfortunately, so is losing – Vince Lombardi
11. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and
fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm – Suze Orman
12. People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference
whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it
keeps – Mary Kay Ash
13. In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability
every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards
– Donald Trump
14. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins:  cash and experience.  Take the
experience first; the cash will come later – Harold Geneen
15. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in
your heart – Thomas Watson, Sr.
16. The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers – John
Egan
17. I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing
and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain
as well – Alan Greenspan
18. Hire character.  Train skill – Peter Schutz
19. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an
efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.  The second is that automation applied to
an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency – Bill Gates
20. Let’s be honest.  There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. 
Business is complicated and imperfect.  Every business everywhere is staffed with
imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect
human beings – Bob Parsons
21. The NBA is never just a business.  It’s always business.  It’s always personal.  All
good businesses are personal.  The best businesses are very personal – Mark Cuban
22. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big
enough –Joseph E. Levine
23. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity – Charles Dickens
24. I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages – Robert Bosch
25. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve
themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. 
Here are the choices most of us face in such a system:  Get bitter or get busy – Bill O’
Reilly, about capitalism
26. You’re most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning – Bill Gates

Andrew Carnegie: Motivational Business Quotes

The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

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

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle
contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
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

Motivation comes from within.

Author Unknown

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

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

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

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

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

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself
centered.
DMen take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your
love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money, love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got
to dance like no one is watching. It’s gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that
nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Thomas Carlyle

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not
exist in nature.
Helen Keller

Life’s more amusing than we thought.

Andrew Lang

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Hansen, Grace

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Hubbard, Elbert
r. Wayne W. Dye

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Thomas Fuller

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

Gabriel Meurier

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Don Wilder

If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Yiddish Proverb

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dave Del Dotto
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you
do.
Norman Vincent Peale

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women
who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had
of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and
enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be – enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire –
you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your
hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Emerson

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Enthusiasm – the sustaining power of all great action.

Samuel Smiles
The stories of past courage… can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot
supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

A man full of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form
of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton

Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the
world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop
to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering
and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long
time.
Anonymous

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

You can’t test courage cautiously.

Anne Dillard

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with
nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.
Francis of Assisi

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also
believe.
Anatole France

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can
decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can
go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept
on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Kennedy, John F.
Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you
are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

The future is not a gift – it is an achievement.

Harry Lauder

The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge.
Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa on wisdom
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Jack Kinder

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Albert Camus
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with
nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.
Francis of Assisi

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also
believe.
Anatole France

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can
decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can
go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept
on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Kennedy, John F.
 What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

We become what we think about.

- Earl Nightingale

Imagination rules the world

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
- Jean Caldwell

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
- Basho

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My
business is to create.

- William Blake
There is nothing so wasteful as doing with great efficiency that which doesn't have to be done at
all.

- Anon

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

- Prescott

Replace the word "problem" with the word "opportunity" in all your thoughts.
- Matthew Keith Groves

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.
- W.G.P.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can
devise your own methods.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is "trying things to see if they work"

- Ray Bradbury

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

 - Aristotle

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

- Seal

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there!
- Will Rogers

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
- Brendan Francis

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Jacob Bronowski

Vision without execution is delusion.

- Thomas Edison

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.

- Anon

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
- Seneca
 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities – that is values, goals, and high leverage
activities – organize around them.

- Dr. Stephen Covey

Cause Change & Lead

Accept Change & Survive

Resist Change & Die

- Ray Noorda, Chairman, Novell

Begin it Now

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of
which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:

That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream
of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and
meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has Genius, Power and Magic in it.

Begin it now.

- Goethe

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

 - Woody Allen

Press On

Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance.

Talent will not;
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not;

Unrewarded genius is almost legendary;

Education will not;

The world is full of educated derelicts.

Perseverance and Determination alone are omnipotent.

- US President Calvin Coolidge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Don’t Quit!

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
when he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.
 Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst, that
You Must Not Quit.

- C. W. Longenecker

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- General George S. Patton

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Anon

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I’ve lost almost 300 games.

Twenty six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

Never Give Up
- Winston Churchill

If an individual sets an achievable goal and never gives up, they will either achieve their goal, or
die trying.
If a civilisation sets an achievable goal and never gives up, they will achieve their goal.
What shall we do?

- Matthew Keith Groves

Winners

Winners take chances like everyone else,

They fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.

Winners don’t give up,

When life gets tough, they hang in until the going gets better

Winners are flexible.

They realise there is more than one way and they are willing to try others.

Winners know they are not perfect.

They respect their weaknesses while making the most of their strengths.

Winners fall, but they don’t stay down.

They stubbornly refuse to let a fall keep them from climbing.

Winners don’t blame fate for their failures,

Nor luck for their successes.

Winners accept responsibility for their lives.

Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.

From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.

Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when it’s hard,
Even when others can’t see where they are going.

Winners are patient.

They know a goal is only as worthy as the effort that’s required to achieve it.

Winners are people like you.

They make this world a better place to be.

- Nancye Sims
 This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of
communication.
The device is inherently of no value too us.

- Western Union internal memo 1876

You say this is a computer for ordinary people? Why would an ordinary person want a
computer?

- Hewlett Packard executive to Steve Wozniak regarding Apple prototype

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
- Anon

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through
strength, 
but through persistence.

- Buddha

Who dares wins

- Winston Churchill

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

-  Alan Curtis Kay, Developer of Object Oriented Programming and the Windowing Graphical
User Interface
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
- Claudia Black

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today’s successes will be few.
- Anon

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Rather the pain of discipline, than the pain of regret.

- Bob Andrews

Things do not change; we change.

- Thoreau

When you're through changing, you're through.

- Bruce Barton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
 Invest Your Time Before You Invest Your Money
- Anon

Test Your Strategy Before You Risk Your Money

- Matthew Keith Groves

Don't focus on how to spend less money,

Focus on how to make more money.

- Lyndon Forman

Remember the Golden Rule - He who has the gold makes the rules!
- Lyndon Forman

Life is...

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfil it.
Life is a sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

- Mother Teresa
 Life isn't a dress rehearsal
- Kerry Packer

In Life’s Garden

Count your garden by the flowers,

never by the leaves that fall.

Count your days by the golden hours,

don't remember the clouds at all.

Count your nights by the stars,

not by shadows.

Count your life with smiles not tears,

and with joy through all your life.

Count your age by friends not years.

- Anon

Just for Today

I will live through the next 12 hours and try not to tackle all of life's problems at once.
I will improve my mind, I will learn something that requires effort and concentration.

I will be agreeable.  I will look my best, speak in a well modulated voice, and be courteous and
considerate.

I will not find fault with a friend, relative or colleague. I will not try to change or improve
anyone but myself.

I will have a programme. I might not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from
two enemies:
hurry and indecision.

I will do a good turn and keep it a secret. If anyone finds out, it will not count.
 I will do two things I don't want to do, just for the exercise.

I will believe in myself. I will give my best to the world and feel confident that the world will
give it's best to me.

- Anon

A child who lives with Criticism

Learns to condemn

A child who lives with Hostility

Learns to fight

A child who lives with ridicule

Learns to be shy

A child who lives with shame

Learns to feel guilty

A child who lives with tolerance

Learns to be patient

A child who lives with encouragement

Learns confidence

A child who lives with Praise

Learns to appreciate

A child who lives with fairness

Learns justice

A child who lives with security

Learns faith

A child who lives with approval

Learns to like their self

A child who lives with acceptance & friendship

Learns to find love in the world

-  Dorothy Law Nolte  - (modified - non-sexist version!)

Take Time
 Take Time to Think,
It is the source of power.

Take time to Play,

It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to Read,

It is the foundation of wisdom.

Take time to Love and to Be Loved,

It is a present.

Take time to Be Friendly,

It is the road to happiness.

Take time to Laugh,

It is the music of the soul.

Take time to Give,

It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to Work,

It is the price of success.

Take time to Do Charity,

It is the key to heaven.

- Anon

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
- Eileen Caddy

Friendship

Alliance

Affinity

Rapport
 - Matthew Keith Groves

What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

A Smile

There's something you may give,

To a friend and a stranger too;

It seems that when you give it,

It's given back to you.

This present is worth a million,

But doesn't cost a dime;

It's lasting in effect,

But doesn't take much time,

This simple little gesture

Can make the day worthwhile;

It's just as good as sunshine;

It's what we call a smile.

- Jill Wolf

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
and well preserved body, 
but rather to skid in sideways at the last minute, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the
other, 
body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO - That was Fun!”

- Anon

I expect to pass through this world but once.

 Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me
do it now.

Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

- Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855

Work like you don't need the money,

Dance like nobody's watching,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Sing like nobody's listening,
And Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

- First line by Satchel Paige, the rest by Mark Twain

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
 E. Joseph Cossman quotes (Entrepreneur)
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         “The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

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         “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

 AuntGranny

 Charles R. Swindoll quotes (American Writer and Clergyman, b.1934)

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         “I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ”

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         “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
 Jesse Jackson quotes (American Civil-Rights Leader, Baptist Minister and Politician, b.1941)
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         “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself,
vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
 Gail Devers quotes
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         “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
 Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)
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         “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
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         “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

 Douglas MacArthur quotes (American General who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War
II, 1880-1964)
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         “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting
our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
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