"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do."
-Coach Lou Holtz
"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
"Everybody’s time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life, have the courage to follow your dreams."
-Steve Jobs
"To have more, become more."
-Jim Rohn
"Ideas shape the course of history."-John Maynard
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on
after others have let go."
-William Feather
"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs,
then I proceed to invent."
- Thomas Edison
"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
-Helen Keller
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint, and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
-Oprah Winfrey
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
-Andrew Carnegie
Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower."
-Brian Tracy
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
-Demosthenes
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."
-Goethe
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. "
-Judy Garland
"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want
to help you do it."
–W. Clement Stone
"Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus."
-Susan Longacre
"Begin with the end in mind."
-Stephen Covey
"An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it."
-Roy Ash
"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!"
-Donald Gardner
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me?"
–Brian Tracy
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
-George Burns
“Being an entrepreneur allows you to spend all of your brain space on the things you want to be doing, rather than wasting it on something you don’t believe in for a company who doesn’t care about you.”
-Matt Leeburn
"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."
-Buddha
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."
-George Foreman
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
-Louis Armstrong
"The secret to productive goal setting is establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words and emotions as if we've already achieved them."
-Denis Waitley
"One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests."
-John Stuart Mill
"The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success."
-H. W. Arnold
"Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."
-F. Dodson
"If you're insincere, it's manipulative."
-Zig Ziglar
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by
helping others to succeed."
-Napoleon Hill
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
-Bob Dylan
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
-Jonathon Winters
"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
-Brian Tracy
"You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. "I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders."
-J. Hawes
"There is only one success - to be able to live your life in your own way and not to give others absurd, maddening claims upon it."
-Christopher Morley
"Find a job you love and you'll add 5 days to every week."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
-Alfred N. Whitehead
"Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success."
-Frank Davidson
"Each person's work is always a portrait of himself."
-Samuel Johnson
"Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them."
-Norman Vincent Peale
"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
-Dr. George Crane
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
-Jim Rohn
"Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them."
-Vernon Howard
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who
cannot hear the music."
-George Carlin
"Bloom where you are planted."
-Anonymous
"There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come."
-Victor Hugo
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-Lewis Carroll
"You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality."
-Ramtha
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
-William James
""If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti
"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
-Mark Twain
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
-Abraham Maslow
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
-George Bernard Shaw
"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."
-Theodore Roethke
"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities."
-Sue Ebaugh
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw
"It may be that those who do most, dream most."
-Stephen Leacock
"Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives."
-Anonymous
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity."
-Thomas Henry Huxley
"Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it."
-Diane Mariechild
"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground."
-Anonymous
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin
"Inspiration and imagination go hand in hand."
-Anonymous
"I don’t sing because I am happy; I’m happy because I sing."
-William James
"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something
must be done about them."
-Alfred North Whitehead
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
-John Steinbeck
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Everything you can imagine is real."
-Pablo Picasso
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
-Oprah Winfrey
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
-Plato
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
-Sun Tzu
"It's kinda fun to do the impossible."
-Walt Disney
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
-Richard Branson
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
-Nolan Bushnell
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