"Life is a mission, not a career."

Stephen R. Covey

"Everything you say and everything you do has to prove what you believe.  A WHY is just a belief.  That's all it is.  HOWs are the actions you take to realize that belief.  And WHATs are the results of those actions - everything you say and do."

Simon Sinek

"Anywheres seem to believe they can pick from whatever national basket they like.  Chinese economic outcomes, American legal protections, European governance, Panamanian taxes, ... And if they do not get what they want, they affirm a right to just pick up and leave - on a passport provided by their nation-state.  You have some responsibility as a citizen to Somewhere.  And if you do not understand that, then you will behave as if you have no responsibilities at all."

Stephen J. Harper

"Passion is what makes work produce results."

Leo Cid DiMeglio

"Burnout has been described ... as fatigue and frustration brought about by a devotion to a cause, lifestyle, or relationship that fails to produce the expected or longed for results. ... The result of working diligently and working long and hard hours toward a goal which can never be achieved."

Dr. David Jeremiah

"It's now or never.  Don't hesitate.  It ain't true that good things come to those who wait."

Paul Brandt

"Life is Ticking."

Timex

"I skate to where the puck is going to be."

Wayne Gretzky

"What we think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the right question."

Jonas Salk

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Wayne Dyer

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People who reinvent themselves have the ability (skill) to transform how they occur to themselves."

Steve Zaffron & Dave Logan

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

Theodore Roosevelt

"The four vital sources of strength are:  love, prayer, unselfishness, and accountability.

The basic causes of weakness are:  entitlement, excuses, selfishness, and blame."

Roger Fritz

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial until finally it becomes what everyone knows."

William James

"Defining the word "average," someone said, "'Average' is the best of the worst and the worst of the best.""

John C. Maxwell

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

Jean Giraudoux

"Real money isn't earned by the hour, it's made with ideas."

David Bach

"Focus on the Wildly Important ... Failure to achieve these goals renders all other achievements relatively inconsequential."

Stephen R. Covey

"What motivates most of us far more than material success or recognition is our desire to be true to ourselves and live our lives in ways that demonstrate our personal values and beliefs."

Jinny S. Ditzler

"I know this now.  Every man gives his life to what he believes.  Every woman gives her life for what she believes.  Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing."

Joan of Arc

"We act on our beliefs, but we receive based on our expectations."

Jim Dornan

"Too many people fail to realize that their expectation measures the height of their future possibilities."

John C. Maxwell

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"It's impossible to achieve success without expecting it."

John C. Maxwell

"Your life must be influenced by your expectations, not your experience. ... not by others' examples. ... not by your exhilaration."

John C. Maxwell

"The degree of success you achieve depends upon the amount of sincere desire you possess.  Successful people have a dream that becomes too exciting, too important to remain in the realm of fantasy.  Their dream becomes a burning desire.  Day by Day, hour by hour, minute by minute, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands."

John C. Maxwell

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

Booker T. Washington

"I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free."

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"You have not done enough, you have never done enough so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Everyone can be great because everyone can serve."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Henry Emerson Fosdick

"We must learn to narrow our focus. ... do fewer things with excellence rather than many with mediocrity."

Stephen R. Covey

"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it."

John C. Maxwell

"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?'  I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

George Bernard Shaw

"The world says, 'I have to see it to believe it.'  The leader says, 'I have to believe it to see it.'"

John C. Maxwell

"Leadership without the discipline of execution is incomplete and ineffective.  Without the ability to execute, all other attributes of leadership become hollow."

Ram Charan

"For great leaders, ... They are in pursuit of WHY, they hold themselves accountable to HOW they do it and WHAT they do serves as the tangible proof of what they believe."

Simon Sinek

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

Warren Bennis

"The greatest risk of all is the risk of riskless living."

Stephen R. Covey

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."

Abraham Lincoln

"Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.  Give the world your best anyway."

Mother Teresa

"Opportunities for success in this world are as great as we have the imagination to dream them, but we can't see them when we're down on ourselves and the world."

John C. Maxwell

"An eagle does not roost in a sparrow's nest."

Joseph Parker

"Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination."

John C. Maxwell

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you put off what you want to do with your life for decades, with the idea that you'll enjoy your life after you retire, you will ultimately miss your life.!"

David Bach

"History is a great teacher.  Experience is a hard teacher."

John C. Maxwell

"Price is everything you give up to get what you want."

Philip Kotler

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

Albert Schweitzer

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Albert Einstein

"The difference between what we are doing and what we're capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems."

Gandhi

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.  And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."

R. D. Laing

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

William James

"You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind."

Zig Ziglar

"If you want to make minor; incremental changes and improvements, work on practices, behavior or attitude.  But if you want to make significant, quantum improvement, work on paradigms.  ... perception, assumption, theory, frame of reference or lens though which you view the world."

Stephen R. Covey

"Successful people define themselves."

Al Siebert

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man attempts to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw

"In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life.  And it's very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work."

Jim Collins

"Service is the rent we pay for living in this world of ours."

Nathan Eldon Tanner

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

"We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become.  Think the best, believe the best, and express the best in others."

John C. Maxwell

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Hellen Keller

"Teamwork is the essence of life."

Pat Riley

"Can leadership be taught?  No, but it can be learned."

Stephen R. Covey

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity."

Dwight David Eisenhower

"The least obvious leadership trait is humility."

Roger Fritz

"90 percent of all leadership failures are character failures."

Stephen R. Covey

"Choose your friends wisely."

John C. Maxwell

"People say you pay the price for success.  But you don't pay the price for success; you pay the price for failure.  You enjoy the benefits of success."

Zig Ziglar

"More important than what you want in life is why you want what you want in life.  The why is where the power is.  The why is what causes you to go beyond the point of no return.  The why is your purpose in life."

Larry DiAngi

"We only perform to the level we believe our abilities will take us."

Skip Ross

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."

Shakespeare

"We will all eventually die.  The real tragedy is failing to fully live."

Jim Clemmer

"Those who seek a better life must first become a better person."

Jim Rohn

"The enemy of the 'best' is the 'good.'"

Stephen R. Covey

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Beverly Sills

"History has proven that people are successful not because of brilliance, but because of persistence and desire."

John C. Maxwell

"Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right, it will, and at the best possible moment."

Maxwell's Law, John C. Maxwell

"What we think determines what we believe; what we believe influences what we choose; what we choose defines what we are; and what we are attracts what we have."

Jim Rohn

"When we choose our thoughts, we are choosing our future."

Jim Clemmer

"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

Mark Twain

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

Ayn Rand

"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."

Frances Hutcheson

"Wisdom is the correct use of the truth in the knowledge you have."

Zig Ziglar

"What makes the difference in the outcome?  Talent?  No!  The only difference between those who threw in the towel and quit and those who used their energy to rebuild and kept going is found in the word 'hope.'"

John C. Maxwell

"Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action.  Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made."

Johann Goethe

"When something 'bad' happens, if you focus on what you want, keep your mind off what you don't want or are worried about, and take action, then miraculous things can happen."

Bill Harris

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Pursuing your dream takes the same amount of work as acquiring more things that you don't really care about or want - so you might as well pursue your dream."

John C. Maxwell

"Happiness is a process, not a thing."

Gerald Edelman

"Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have.  It depends solely on what you think."

Dale Carnegie

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you.  You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"'One picture is worth a thousand words.'  I believe that one experience is worth a thousand pictures."

Stephen R. Covey

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things."

Philippians 4:8

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear."

Mark Twain

"Quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty, danger and pain with firmness and resolve."

Webster's Dictionary, definition of Courage

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."

Albert Einstein

"The most noticeable difference between those who achieve and those who fail is seen in the area of perseverance.  Everyone has disappointments.  Every person faces roadblocks.  The one who succeeds is the one who will not quit."

John C. Maxwell

"Doing the right thing for the right reason in the right way is the key to quality of life, and that can only come through the power of an educated conscience that aligns us with vision, mission, and true north."

Stephen R. Covey

"Character is made in the small moments of our lives."

Phillips Brooks

"We must become the change we seek in the world."

Gandhi

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Winston Churchill

"Abundance thinkers are different.  ... They compete against themselves.  They want to create more so that everyone can have more.  In the Leverage Game, you can work on a team where everyone gets what they want."

Dr. Bill Quain

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

"What lies behind or ahead of us is less important than what lies within."

Roger Fritz

"Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it."

George H. Lorimer

"In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles.  The details for knowledge, which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom."

Alfred North Whitehead

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle

"Control begins with one thing, and that is a thought.  If you plant a thought, you reap an act.  If you plant an act, you reap a habit.  If you plant a habit, you reap your lifestyle.  If you plant your lifestyle, you reap your destiny.  But it all starts with one thought, and the collection of your thoughts becomes your philosophy in life.  Your philosophy in life becomes your reality.  Your reality creates your life."

Larry DiAngi

"I am your constant companion.  I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.  I will push you onward and upward or drag you down to failure.  I am completely at your command.  Ninety percent of the things you do might just as well be turned over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.  I am easily managed, show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do them automatically.  I am the servant of all great people and, alas! of all failures as well.  I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine, plus the intelligence of a man.  You can run me for profit or run me for ruin - it makes no difference to me.  Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.  Be easy with me and I will destroy you.  Who am I?  I am Habit."

Anonymous

"The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time."

Robert T. Kiyosaki

"To make a difference in people's lives, you have to make a difference in your own life first."

Dr. Bill Quain

"The history of free man is never written by chance but by choice - their choice."

Dwight David Eisenhower

"There is no failure except in no longer trying.  There is no failure except from within.  There is no insurmountable barrier until we give up on our purpose."

John C. Maxwell

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"When was the last time you caught yourself enjoying life so deeply that you couldn't quite wipe the smile off your face?"

David C. Cook

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back.  Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:  that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.  All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.  A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.  Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  Begin it now."

W. H. Murray

"God's gift to you is your potential.  What you do with it is your gift to God."

John C. Maxwell

"Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity."

John C. Maxwell

"Nice guys don't finish last, they are in a different race."

"Nothing worthwhile in life is easily obtained, otherwise it would not be of value."

"Learn zealously from the past so that you may plan effectively for the future so that you may live well in the present."

"Abundance is a by-product of character."

"You are responsible for your life.  Whether you embrace such responsibility and use it to your advantage or have such responsibility enforced upon you by an uncaring world to your disadvantage, is your choice."

"Everything you do either adds to or detracts from both your own passion and that of others."

"There is only one person worthwhile competing with:  the one in the mirror."

Ronald V. Popowich