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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything better than a negative attitude will.
--Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily.
--Zig Ziglar
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
--Richard Bach
The reason a lot of people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is that it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard work.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Many of us have the right aim in life. We just never get around to pulling the trigger.
If you don't believe in cooperation, just observe what happens to a wagon when one wheel comes off.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will--
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!
The more that is left to chance, the less chance there is for success.
Improvement begins with I.
When you can think of yesterday without regret, and of tomorrow without fear, you are on the road to success.
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
A nice thing about being yourself is that you have not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
The trouble with being a leader today is that you can't be sure whether the people are following or chasing you.
There's a time to part and a time to meet,
There's a time to sleep and a time to eat,
There's a time to work and a time to play,
There's a time to sing and a time to pray,
There's a time that's glad and a time that's blue,
There's a time to plan and a time to do!
There's a time to grin and show your grit...
But, there never was a time to quit.
It's not the hours you put in, it's what you put in the hours.
You can't keep your eye on the ball and the clock at the same time.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
Failure should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
A man who never makes a mistake is a man who never does anything.
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
--David Starr Jordan
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
-- Maltbie Babcock
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
-- Alistair Cooke
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
-- Margaret Fontey
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw