Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
--Lewis Grizzard
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
--William Jennings Bryan
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
--Eddie Rickenbacker
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
--William Feather
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world
has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.
--George Hegel
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
--Edgar Friedenbar
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
--Alexander Graham Bell
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
--Les Brown
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
--C C Colton
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence.
--Henry Chestor
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a
formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody.
--Herbert Bayard Swope
Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as
though you are indispensable, and you will move out.
--Jules Ormont
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
--Reginald B Mansell
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
--Lee Iococca
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
--John Wooden
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly
live long enough to make them all yourself.
--Sam Levenson
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
--Maureen Dowd
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new
paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
--John D. Rockefeller
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying
to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
--Malcomb Forbes
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
--Albert Gray
The intelligent man is one who has successfully
fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
--Ed Parker
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
--Arthur C. Clarke
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
-- Al Batt
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
--Colin Wilson
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
--Alex Hamilton
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.
--Martin Luther King
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants
to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things
than we realize.
--Norman Vincent Peale
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get
the credit.
Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's
far less competition.
--Dwight Whitney Morrow
You can't go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad.
--C.S. Lewis
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
--George Eliot
It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have;
to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful
and have courage when things go wrong.
--Laura Ingalls Wilder