"If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one."
                                              -- John Galsworthy

"It is a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it."
                                                              -- Somerset Maugham

Blind, deaf, and for many years speechless, Helen Keller said:
         "Recently I asked a friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she had observed. 'Nothing in particular' was the reply. How is it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note. I who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch.
        "I who am blind and deaf can give a word to those of you who can see. Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you."
                                                 -- Helen Keller

"You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do."
                                                  -- Nido Qubein

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
                                                  -- Dale Carnegie

"Turbulence is a life-force. It is opportunity.
Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
-- Ramsay Clark

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
                                                   -- John Wayne

"There is no try, there is either do or not do."
                                                   -- Yoda, Jedi Teacher

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
                                                   -- Ralph Hodgson

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."
                                                   -- Sydney Smith

"Use your good judgment in all situations."
                              -- Contents of the entire Nordstrom Employee Manual

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
                                                    -- Thomas Jefferson

"One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar"
  -- Helen Keller

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
                                                    -- Lee Iacoca

"You are what you are and where you are because of what's gone into your mind; you can change what you are, you can change where you are, by changing what goes into your mind."
                                                     -- Zig Ziglar

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
                                                     -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise:
and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."
-- Proverbs 17:28

"Success is the continuous journey toward the achievement of predetermined, worthwhile goals."
                                                     -- Tom Hopkins

" You can have everything in life you want, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want."
                                                     --Zig Ziglar

"When you're finished changing . . . you're finished!"
-- Benjamin Franklin

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm,
you will be fired--with enthusiasm."
                                                    -- Vincent Lambardi

"Dream no small dreams, for they have no power
to stir the souls of men"
-- Victor Hugo

"Results come in proportion to enthusiasm applied."
                                                    -- David Schwartz

"It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up."
               -- Vincent Lombardi

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
-- Charles Schwab

"Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"If you don't know where you're going,
any path will take you there."
               -- Sioux Proverb

"You rarely achieve more than you expect to get."
                -- Carol Grosse

"The truth of the matter is that there is nothing you can't accomplish if you clearly decide what it is that you are absolutely committed to achieving, you are willing to take massive action, and you continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."
                -- Tony Robbins

"You must scale the mountain
if you would view the plain."
-- Chinese Proverb

"True happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
          -- Og Mandino

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man alone has the power
to transfer his thoughts into physical reality;
man alone can dream
and make his dreams come true."
               -- Napoleon Hill

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it."
               -- Zig Ziglar

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture.
        -- Norman Vincent Peale

"I am the captain of my soul.
I am the master of my fate."
-- William Hanley

"No-limit people are so in charge that they can trust their instincts, be childlike, be creative, do anything that makes sense to them and make their lives into what they really believe they want for themselves."
                --Wayne Dyer

"A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds."
                 --Francis Bacon

I have missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed! I have failed over and over and over again in my life -- and that is precisely why I succeed.
                                                            -- Michael Jordan

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence,
is the key to unlocking your potential."
                        --Winston Churchill

"We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes."
--Zig Ziglar

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour--his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious."
                   --Vince Lombardi

"We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the "good" and the "bad," but between the "good" and the "best." So often, the enemy of the "best" is the "good."
                 --Stephen R. Covey

"Luck is a dividend of sweat.
The more you sweat,
the luckier you get."
        --Ray Kroc

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it,
and stay with it until it's done right!"
                    -- Walt Disney

"A goal properly set is half way reached."
                  -- Zig Ziglar

"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."
     -- Hazlitt

"Good listeners generally make more sales than good talkers."
        -- B.C. Holwick

I am the master of my fate:        
  I am the captain of my soul.
  --William Ernest Henley

"To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself."
-- Napoleon Hill

"The wonderful thing about the game of life is that winning and losing are only temporary--unless you quit."
-- Unknown

"Men give me some credit for genius, but all the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in mind I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. The result is what some people call the fruits of genius, whereas it is in reality the fruits of study and labor." -- Alexander Hamilton