"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Teddy Roosevelt
"There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & to say it was good." -- unknown
Your life or business is perfectly designed to get the results it gets! -- unknown
"If you stumble, make it part of the dance." - unknown
"No matter how far you have gone, if you know you're on the wrong road, turn back." -- Turkish proverb
"Losers focus on what they are going through; Champions focus on what they are going to." - Dr. Mike Murdock
"Without the rocks, the stream would lose its song." --Proverb
'If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.' -- Viktor Frankl
'A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor people perfected without trials.' -- Chinese Proverb
'Without the rocks, the stream would lose its song.' --Proverb
'Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.' -- Thomas A. Edison
'There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.' -- Anonymous
'Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.' -- Gail Sheehy-Passages
'Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.' - Helen Keller
"In midair, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground. If the entrepreneur hits the ground before building a parachute, it's very tough climbing back into the plane and trying again." --Robert Kyosaki's Rich Dad
"Employees look for a job after the business is built. An entrepreneur's work begins before there is a business." --Robert Kyosaki's Rich Dad
"Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed." --Robert Kyosaki's Rich Dad
"A successful business is created before there is a business." --Robert Kyosaki's Rich Dad
"Many entrepreneurs fail to build a business. Instead, they work hard building a job that they own. They become self-employed rather than business owners." --Robert Kyosaki's Rich Dad
"Our schools train students to be employees who look for jobs rather than train entrepreneurs who create jobs and build businesses." --Robert Kyosaki's Rich Dad
"Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." -- Margaret Thatcher
"People with tiny bank accounts tend to have no libraries, but they usually have big TV's" --Dan Kennedy
"When I must criticize somebody, I do it orally; when I praise somebody, I put it in writing." -- Lee Iacocca
"If you lead through fear you will have little to respect; but if you lead through respect you will have little to fear." Anonymous
"Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest sound in any language." -- Dale Carnegie
"The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss." -- Diane Ravitch
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile." --Zig Ziglar
"A man with an experience is not beholden to a man with an arguement" - unknown
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't...than to live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is." - unknown
"You are who you are when no one is watching" -unknown
"What you do thunders so loudly above your head, that I can not hear what you say to the contrary." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God didn't put me on this earth to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am, than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings". - Rick Warren
"The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am; they REVEAL who I am." - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very, long time." - Chinese proverb
"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk." - Jack Gibb
"Action conquers fear." - Peter N. Zarlenga
"If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything." - Ecclesiastes 11:4
"A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice." - Sting in "A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance"
"The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free." - Unknown
"Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction." – unknown
"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear." - E. H. Harriman
"Never take counsel of your fears." - Andrew Jackson
"Half our fears are baseless; the other half discreditable." - Christian Bovee
"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him a landlord to a ghost." - Lloyd C. Douglas
"He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him." - Moorish Proverb
"Fear fades when facts are faced." - Frank Tyger
"It takes just as much time and energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"When there are no fish in one spot, cast your net in another." - Chinese Proverb
"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"There are two kinds of pain: pain of risk and pain of regret." - Kare Anderson, conflict-resolution specialist
'There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman...neither works.'
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
"A man's steps are established by the Lord, and He takes pleasure in his way. Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, because the Lord holds his hand." -- Psalms 37:24 (HCSB)
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford
"Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing." (HCSB)
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare." - John Wooden
"The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing." - Dick Biggs
"Don't live your life like an accident – make a plan and execute it." – Rob DeFoor
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – unknown
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German proverb
You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do." - Henry Ford
"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Harvey Mackay
"Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men's souls." - Daniel Burnam
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" – unknown
I want to know God's thoughts -- the rest are details. - Albert Einstein
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - M.K. Gandhi
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
'Live out of your imagination, not your history.' - Stephen Covey
'The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping old ones.' - John Maynard Keynes
'If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.' - Chinese Proverb
'If youth only knew, if age only could" – unknown
'Money is an excellent servant, but a tyrannical master." – unknown
'Be still and know that I am God' – The Bible
'Don't expect a magic pumpkin to pop up if you haven't planted any magic pumpkin seeds.' – Rob DeFoor
'Ed McMahon is NOT coming!!!'
"You can't sail to new lands unless you're willing to lose sight of the shore" - unknown
"Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book." -- Jim Rohn
"What you hear, see and read will determine your destiny. You're the same person today that you'll be five years from now, except for the people you meet and the books you read." - unknown
"Research shows that 90 percent of five-year olds are creative, but only 2 percent of adults are." Lee Lilber
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." John Steinbeck
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." John Maynard Keynes
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
"Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity" - Robert Schuller
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves." -- Andrew Jackson
"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance." - Jim Rohn
"And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ." Colossians 3:23-24 (NKJV)
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say: Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy."--Zig Ziglar
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." --Phillips Brooks