in no particular order...
A winner is a loser who never gave up.
Unknown
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles Swindoll
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Ben Franklin
The only way to do great work is to love the work you do.
Steve Jobs
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Do. Or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no expensive mistakes, just valuable lessons
Unknown
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
Unknown
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Charles Darwin
People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.
Ken Hakuta
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
Bill Clinton
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Unknown
Don’t do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.
Unknown
The pain of achieving will be forgotten - the achievement never will be.
Unknown
Every single thing you do today is preparing you for the life you will live tomorrow.
Unknown
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.
Charles Swindoll
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Addair
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert Schuller
Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise.
Unknown
The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.
Jill Konrath
The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say.
Tom Freese
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour.
Brian Tracy
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
Zig Ziglar
The way you position yourself at the beginning of a relationship has profound impact on where you end up.
Ron Karr
It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.
Unknown
Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
Unknown
If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.
Bob Hooey
Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
Zig Ziglar
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it. But if you love what you are doing,and always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc
I don't have dreams, I have goals.
Harvey Specter
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
If we make resources infinite, we make wars obsolete
Ozimandis Watchmen
Give me the seed, I can grow the tree myself
Easy is boring.
The difference between insanity and belief lies in the number of believers.
-unknown-
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside a ship. Similarly the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
Buddhism
Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
Time is a drug. We all want more of it. Too much of it kills you.
-unknown-
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war
Norman Schwarzkopf
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
James Lovell, former NASA astronaut
The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The next best time is today
-unknown-
You have to fish where the fish are
-unknown-
A lot of people in business say they have twenty years’ experience, when in fact all they have is one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.
Hugh MacLeod
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
You know who you are. You don't know who you may be.
Jay-Z
2nd place is 1st loser
-unknown-
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you do something for the 1st time, you gotta be fearless
-unknown-
Chance only favours the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
A winner is a loser who never gave up.
-unknown-
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles Swindoll
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Ben Franklin
The only way to do great work is to love the work you do.
Steve Jobs
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Do. Or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no expensive mistakes, just valuable lessons.
-unknown-
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
-unknown-
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Charles Darwin
People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.
Ken Hakuta
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese Proverb
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
Bill Clinton
The pain of achieving will be forgotten - the achievement never will be.
-unknown-
Every single thing you do today is preparing you for the life you will live tomorrow.
-unknown-
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dream a reality.
-unknown-
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
The glory of light cannot exist without its shadows.
-unknown-
‘I shall take the heart,’ returned the Tin Woodsman; ‘for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.’
L. Frank Baum
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was a lesson, not a life sentence.
-unknown-
Creativity is intelligence having fun
-unknown-
Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right
Ricky Gervais
Closed mouth don’t get fed
Jay-Z
It doesn’t matter if you do 10 stupid things, if you do one smart one.
-unknown-
The losers practice until they get it right, the winners practice until they never get it wrong.
-US billiards champion-
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
James Cameron
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Emma Donoghue