A work well begun is half-ended

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. "

-- Michael J. Fox, Actor

"A work well begun is half-ended."

-- Plato, Philosopher

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."

-- Denis Diderot, French Philosopher and Writer

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

-- Winston Churchill, British prime minister

 

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

-- Peter Drucker, Businessman

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-- Chinese Proverb

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."

-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America

"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."

-- Alberto Salazar, American Marathon Runner

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

-- Proverb

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. "

-- Irving Berlin, American Composer and Lyricist

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

-- Peter F. Drucker, Author and Management Expert

"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one."

-- Ralph Ransom

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

-- Arthur Christopher Benson, British Author

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."

-- Jacob Riis, Photographer and Journalist

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else

"Chance favors those in motion."

-- James H. Austin, Professor of Neurology and Author

"In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

"Samson killed a thousand men with the jaw bone of an ass. That many sales are killed every day with the same weapon."

-- Anonymous

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."

-- Peter F. Drucker, Author and Management Expert

"Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively."

-- Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."

-- Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

-- Henry David Thoreau, Author, Philosopher

"People die of fright and live of confidence."

-- Henry David Thoreau, Author, Philosopher

"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."

-- Claude M. Bristol, Author

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

-- Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

-- Jim Rohn, Author

Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter.

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."

-- Robert Heinlein, American Novelist

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."

-- Jim Rohn, Motivational Coach

"Fortune favors the audacious."

-- Desiderius Erasmus, Theologian

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

-- John Wayne, Actor

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter."

-- Dan Reeves, Football Coach

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

-- Albert Einstein, scientist

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet ....

"Great hopes make everything great possible."

-- Benjamin Franklin, Statesman

"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. "

-- Bono, musician

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved."

-- Helen Keller, lecturer

"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action."

-- Anna Lappe, Writer

"If we had to point out one single notion that is calculated to damage industrial performance... it is the idea that profit is somehow wrong. "

-- Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister

Opportunity in Every Difficulty

"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake."-- Alan Greenspan, economist

"We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity." -- Walter E. Cole, Korean War Hero

"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed." -- Cavett Robert 

"You do not succeed because you do not know what you want or you don't want it intensely enough." -- Frank Crane, Minister

"Luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it."
-- Samuel Goldwyn, entertainment executive 

"When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter five years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go." -- Catherine Pulsifer, writer

never give up then...

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, author

"There comes a special moment in everyone's life; a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission-a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour." -- Winston Churchill, British prime minister 

"Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little." -- Lee Iacocca, executive 

"There are three hungers that people are trying to feed throughout their lives. The first is to connect deeply with the creative spirit of life. The second is to know and express your gifts and talents. The third is to know that our lives matter. Fulfillment comes from feeding these three hungers." -- Richard Leider, executive 

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dave Gardner, comedian

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills that you should avoid

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills that you should avoid". -- Thomas Jefferson, third U.S. president

 "No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy." -- Ayn Rand, writer  

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought." -- Napolean Hill, author  

"Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. It makes a seeming impossibility give way." -- Jeremy Collier, critic  

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it." -- George Lucas, director 

"Difficulties are things that show a man's nature." -- Epictetus, philosopher 

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." -- Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat ...."

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart." -- Robert Ingersoll, orator

"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."-- Marilyn Kennedy, leadership coach 

"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat." -- Allen Klein, businessman 

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this isn't so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success." -- Thomas Edison, inventor 

 "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Financial education.....

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." -- Muhammad Ali, boxer

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life." -- Brian Tracy, Author

"Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us." -- David Bach, Personal Finance Author, Speaker and Consultant

"There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple."-- Lee Iacocca, executive

"Wealth depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both."-- Benjamin Franklin, statesman

Start where you stand ....

"If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking."-- Jack Canfield, Inspirational Self Help Author and Success Coach

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." -- Napoleon Hill, Writer

  

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."--- Robert Heinlein

  

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."--- Brian Tracy, Author

  

"Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle."-- Jack Canfield, Success Coach

Genius is 1% Inspiration

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework." ----- Thomas Edison, Inventor

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." --- -- George Santayana, Philosopher

"Freedom lies in being bold." -- Robert Frost, poet

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." -- 

Kenneth Blanchard, writer

"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." -- George Patton, General

"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right upfront, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it." -- Lee Iacocca, executive

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“You do not succeed because you do not know what you want or you don't want it intensely enough.” ---Frank Crane, Minister

“Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” ---  Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” --- Chin-Ning Chu, Strategist

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.” ----Napolean Hill, Motivational Writer

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people” --- John. D. Rockefeller, American Industrialist

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“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and you would achieve nothing.” ---Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister.

“Every mistake that I made - and we all make mistakes - came because I didn't take the time to get the facts. I didn't drive hard enough.” --- Charles Knight, publisher.

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” --- Larry Bird, basketball player

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” ----Napolean Hill, author

“You are not beaten until you admit it.” --- George Patton, general