QUOTES

QUOTES

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first." -- Harry Truman, 33rd US President

"I don't think there's any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work. If you don't reach them, then it's okay, just as long as you set it and then give 100% of yourself." -- Dan Jansen, Speed Skater

"We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Philosopher

"It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-denial." -- Thomas Haliburton, writer

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -- Leo Tolstoy, Author

"Wealth depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both." -- Benjamin Franklin, statesman

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -- Albert Einstein, physicist

"Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners." -- Joe Gibbs, Football Coach

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your talent, there is only one way to obtain it-work." -- Jack Nicklaus, golfer

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman

"Concentrate all your thoughts on the task as hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." -- Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace." -- Ernie Banks, Baseball Player

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." -- Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed senseof fear and no concept of the odds against them." -- Robert Jarvik, Artificial Heart Developer

"Ingenuity - plus courage, plus work - equals miracles." -- Bob Richards, Olympic Gold Medalist

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust, Author

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." -- Isaac Newton, Physicist

"Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them." -- Clarence Birdseye, Entrepreneur

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time." -- Anita Roddick, Body Shop Founder

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" -- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Author

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." -- George Santayana, Philosopher

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers, Humorist

"You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash." -- Douglas MacArthur, General

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the gra pes were good in the first place." -- Abigail Van Buren, Advice Columnist

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidencein seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." -- Tom Landry, Football Coach

"Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneursare all about - doing what people have told them is impossible." -- Hunt Greene, Venture Capitalist

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." -- Stan Smith, Tennis Champion

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." -- Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." -- William Saroyan, Writer

"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." -- Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -- Walt Disney, Theme Park Mogul

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the parent of all the others." -- Cicero, Philosopher

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley, Basketball Coach

"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if Icould. And no hours nor amount of labor nor amount of money woulddeter me from giving the best that there was in me." -- Col. Harland Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder

“Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.” – Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. vice president

“When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

“Fix the problem, not the blame.” Baspet

“Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.” – Edgar Guest, poet

“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” – John Paul II, pope

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.– Phil Knight, Nike co-founder