1. The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr
2. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
3. To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything. - Anthony Pagano
4. The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor. - Mike Litman
5. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
6. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
7. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
8. Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become. - Tracy L. McNair
9. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
10. Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. - T.S. Eliot
11. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
12. To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. - Sugar Ray Robinson
13. If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted. - Francis Bacon
14. Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. - Claudia Black
15. Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills. - Peter Davies
16. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. - Beverly Sills
17. I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
18. Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition. - Joe Carlozo
19. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it. - W. Somerset Manghan
20. Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. - Emily Guay
21. No man ever became great without many and great mistakes. - William E. Gladstone
22. In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. - Henry David Thoreau
23. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving; they make mistakes, but they do not quit. - Conrad Hilton
24. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - Jeremy Kitson
25. All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
26. If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning. - Ghandi
27. If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow. - Yusuf Tara
28. Our intentions create our reality. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
29. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought. - Peace Pilgrim
30. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to; all they need is one reason why they can. - Willis Whitney
31. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. - Jack Canfield
32. Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi 33. Failing to plan is planning to fail. - Effie Jones
34. Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson
35. A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. - Bruce Springstein
36. You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit. - Aristotle
37. Some things have to be believed to be seen. - Ralph Hodgson
38. Wealth is the product of man's ability to think. - Ayn Rand 39. We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. - Marcel Proust
40. Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. - Thomas Dewar
41. High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton
42. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
43. It is what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
44. Life is too short to ponder the "what if's" and fear rejection. - T. Dufek
45. Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been. - Eli Cohen
46. It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt. - Suellen Fried
47. Dreams are the reality of tomorrow. - Dean Marshall 48. If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times. -- Art Linkletter
49. Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships. - Dr. Lester Sumrall 50. The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles. - Rodney L. Parsley
51. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
52. The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Anonymous
53. There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it. - Pat Riley
54. One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John Gardner
55. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. - James Allen
56. A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen! - Dexter Yager
57. Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin. - Victor Kiam 58. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford
59. The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. - Richard M. Devos
60. Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
61. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
62. When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision. - Ronald Reagan
63. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. - Charles F. Kettering
64. Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw
65. Never complain about what you permit. - Mike Murdock
66. It may be all right to be content with what you have; never with what you are. - B.C. Forbes
67. Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. - Proverb
68. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles Kettering
69. Success is never wondering what if... - Karrie Huffman 70. "I can't do it" never accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed miracles. - George P. Burnham
71. Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand
72. Keys to success: Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it. - John S. Hinds
73. I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn. - Jackie Joyner Kersee
74. It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. - Sir Edmund Hillary
75. If what you did yesturday seems big, you haven't done anything today. - Lou Holtz
76. Life is change; growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark
77. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
78. You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future. - Roger Smith
79. This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything. - Scott reed
80. Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. - Dottie Walters
81. Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes. - Washington Irving
82. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Stephen A. brennan 83. Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door. - Kyle Chandler 84. Our life is what it is as a result of how we think. - George DeVack
85. We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. - Donald Curtis 86. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford
87. You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment. - Les Brown
88. Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends. - Jawaharlal Nehru
89. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles Kettering
90. The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more. - Ed Parker
91. He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. - Danish Proverb
92. Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams. - George DeVack
93. What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. - Alexander Grahm Bell
94. If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead. - Justin Sims
95. Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr MArtha Friedman
96. Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. - Janet Erskine Stuart
97. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. - John Wicker
98. Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. - B.C. Forbes
99. An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. - Caroline L. Gascoigne
100. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. - Paul Tillisch