2. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your words, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
3. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
4. “You are what you are and you are where you are, because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”
5. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”
6. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
7. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
8. “You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”
9. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
10. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
11. “Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side.”
12. “Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.”
13. “Of course, motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
14. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
15. “If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
16. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”
17. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”
18. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”
19. “Failure is an event, not a person.”
20. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough to other people what they want.”
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21. “Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
22. “Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith, and one barrel of laughter. Take love and , and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness, and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.”
23. “When you put faith, hope, and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
24. “To a child love is spelled as T-I-M-E.”
25. “Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!”
26. “Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.”
27. “Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart.”
28. “Words reveal what’s in our hearts.”
29. “The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you will have to be grateful for.”
30. “Live creatively, friends. Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others.”
31. “If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.”
32. “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
33. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
34. “Repetition is the of learning and the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
35. “If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society, He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”
36. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”
37. “Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free, but it can’t go anywhere.”
38. “If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves; but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.”
39. “You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.”
40. “Ask yourself a question—is my attitude worth catching?”
41. “It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.”
42. “Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours.”
43. “Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability, but from lack of commitment.”
44. “You can feed your ego or you can feed your family. You can’t feed them both.”
45. “Life is a classroom—only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.”
46. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you; but if you, they’ll do business with you.”
47. “Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.”
48. “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
49. “Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.”
50. “We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new beginning.”
51. “You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy, and enthusiastic with every person you meet after you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time.”
52. “Make yourself available to God and to those who suffer. A large part of our own healing comes when we reach out with compassion to others.”
53. “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
54. “When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.”
55. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”
56. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they’ve never failed to imitate them.”
57. “The 3 C’s of life—choices, chances, changes. You must make a choice to take a chance, or your life will never change.”
58. “Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.”
59. “Opportunity is walking through your life every day in the form of people you meet.”
60. “If we take care of the good stuff there, then the good stuff here is much easier to get.”
61. “Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it.”
62. “Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard—reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.”
63. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”
64. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”
65. “I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.”
66. “If you are going to be successful, you must . How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that you must define your purpose.”
67. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”
68. “Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.”
69. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty.”
70. “Today, I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.”
71. “To reach your full potential, you have to set goals that will stretch you. You must not be afraid of taking risks. You must learn to recognize opportunities and have the courage to pursue them. You have to make better choices that will provide better results. Finally, you need to avoid the negative influences of other people and surround yourself with successful people who will you to pursue your dreams.”
72. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life—all areas of life.”
73. “The depth of your spirit will determine the height of your success.”
74. “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
75. “Practice is simply preparation for success.”
76. “Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”
77. “If you don’t pay the price for success, you’ll pay the price for failure.”
78. “Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.”
79. “If you have the character to hang in there when it’s tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to win in the game of life.”
80. “Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.”
81. “Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent.”
82. “I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”
83. “If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you’re going to have to find your fears and start facing them.”
84. “When you stop planning and preparing, you stop winning.”
85. “Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”
86. “Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
87. “The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”
88. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”
89. “Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.”
90. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
91. “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
92. “A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”
93. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”
94. “Put aside and remember this—you are capable.”
95. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
96. “Fear is the fatal killer of desire.”
97. “Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”
98. “The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.”
99. “It is unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing what it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.”
100. “People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.”
101. “Pain is a wonderful motivator and teacher!”
102. “When we resist the life brings us, all of our energy goes into resistance and we have none left for the pursuit of our purpose.”
103. “A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.”
104. “One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything.”
105. “Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.”
106. “Don’t let the mistakes and control and direct your future.”
107. “Do more, give more, try harder, aim higher, and give thanks. The rewards will be yours.”
108. “Peak performance is dependent on passion, , determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well.”
109. “Why settle for the ‘get by’ when in the long run, the good costs less?”
110. “Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.”
111. “Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.”
112. “When you’ve got a strong enough ‘why’, you can always find the ‘how’.”
113. “You don’t build a business—you build people; and people build the business.”
114. “Every sale has five obstacles—no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”
115. “The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is this—the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.”
116. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
117. “Outstanding people have one thing in common—an absolute sense of mission.”
118. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”
119. “Some of us learn from other and the rest of us have to be other people.”
120. “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.”
121. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”
122. “Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”
123. “F-E-A-R has two meanings—‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.”
124. “You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”
125. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
126. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can learn to do it well.”
127. “The fact is that you can’t bite a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.”
128. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
129. “Money is not everything, but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
130. “People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.”
131. “You don’t drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”
132. “It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”
133. “It’s not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that’s important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”
134. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
135. “Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.”
136. “Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”
137. “We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid ‘stinking thinking’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.”
138. “If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”
139. “Outside of your relationship with God, the most important relationship you can have is with yourself.”
140. “It is the better part of wisdom to let pain do its work and shape us as it will. We will be wiser, deeper, and more productive in the long run.”
141. “Positive thinking won’t allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.”
142. “The story of life repeatedly assures you that if you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.”
143. “You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.”
144. “With integrity, you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing so you will have no guilt.”
145. “I never worry because I know who I am and I know Whose I am.”
146. “Encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities any person can provide to others.”
147. “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
