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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Great Quotes by Great People

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well do even better"
-- Jim Rohn, Motivational Speaker
"People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the
violent downpour of rain."
-- John Paul Richter
"We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society
where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state."
-- Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister
"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."
-- Peter F. Drucker, Author and Management Expert
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due."
-- William Ralph Inge, writer
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
-- George Herbert, Priest
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get"
-- Ray Kroc, Executive
"To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a
relationship with mutual trust."
-- George Ross, Star of The Apprentice with Donald Trump
"I will study and prepare, and someday my opportunity will come."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Author
"It does not matter how slowly you go up, so long as you don't stop."
-- Confucius, Philosopher
"When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important."
-- Bill Shoemaker, Jockey
"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."
-- Woody Allen, Director
"To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage."
-- Confucius, philosopher
"When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream; dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts and friction from the world."
-- Laura Schlessinger, talk-show host
"The first part of success is "Get-to-it-iveness"; the second part of success is "Stick-to-it-iveness.""
-- Orison Swett Marden, Editor, Success Magazine
"Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion."
-- Dorothea Brande, Writer
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
-- Frank A. Clark
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-- Johann von Goethe
"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
-- Will Rogers, humorist
"Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterward to explain that it was not
possible."
-- Cesar Ritz, hotelier

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing
alone when you're misunderstood."
-- Charles Swindoll

"What keeps so many employees back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."
-- Orison Swett Marden, motivational expert

"Once you surrender to your vision, success begins to chase you."
-- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

"The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural resources - though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because the
average person goes to his grave with his music still in him."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put this plan into action."
-- Napoleon Hill, Motivational Writer

"Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him."
-- Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
-- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

"My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world."
-- William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. "
-- Bob Moawad, Business Speaker

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived
through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."
-- H. Jackson Brown, Author

"I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level."
-- Diana Nyad, swimmer

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-- Winston Churchill, Former British prime minister

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big."
-- Donald Trump, Real Estate Magnate
"To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate."
-- John Glenn, astronaut
"Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world."
-- Hugh Walpole, Writer

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
-- William Arthur Ward, Scholar
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
-- Hyman Rickover, Admiral
"Chance favors those in motion."
-- James H. Austin, Professor of Neurology and Author

"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
-- Zig Ziglar, Author

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
-- George Patton, General

"Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else."
-- Dave Thomas, Wendy's founder
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, statesman
"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. "
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball player
"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better."
-- Edgar Howe
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell and a hell of a heav'n."
-- John Milton, poet
"Focus your messages on the results you expect, not on the methods for doing the job."
-- Marty Brounstein, communications trainer
"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
-- Jim Rohn, Motivational Speaker
"A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family."
-- Thomas Scott
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Inventor
"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. "
-- Bono, musician
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."
-- H. Jackson Brown, Author
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
-- Albert Einstein