I "Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!" -- Josh S. Hinds 

  "You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller 

 "You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" -- Zig Ziglar 

 "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." -- Thomas Jefferson 

 "Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy." -- Martha Washington 

  "Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny." -- Wayne Oates 

 "Dare to risk public criticism." -- Mary Kay Ash 

 "We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us." -- Billy Graham 

 "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." -- Mark Twain 

 "This is America . We can do anything here." -- Ted Turner 

 "Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant 

 "You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." -- Dale Earnhardt 

 "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation." -- Arthur Ashe 

 "Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant 

 "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have." -- Thomas Jefferson 

 "Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return." -- Josh S. Hinds 

  "Life's like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you'll get"  -- Forest Gump 

  "I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, If you do it right today." -Sheldon S. Maye 

 "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -- George Horace Lorimer 

 "If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once." -- Sir Walter Scott 

 "Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person."  Shared by Kristen Goeser

 "Embrace Change. True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to changing circumstances." -- By Connie Sky, Aim High!

 "Failure is not my Destiny." -- Eric M.

 "Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory" -- Sent By David Salton

 "One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger" -- Chinese wisdom Sent By David Schary

 "Everyone rides on the merry go round of life, but very few ever take the chance at the brass ring!" -- Kevin Veitch 

 "There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no introduction." -- Shared by CherLisa Biles

 "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." -- Jeremy Kitson

 "He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death." -- Mark J. Ottaviani

 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." -- Author is Mark Twain / Samuel Clements 

 Be beautiful if you can, Wise if you want to... But be respected--that is essential. -- Anna Gould 

 Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. Unknown 

 "If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" -- Mark Houlahan

 "There are 3 things that are certain in life: death, taxes and change. You can't avoid change, it's mandatory, progress however is optional." -- Bill R. Good, Jr.

 "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare" -- Japanese Proverb 

 "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but braver five minutes longer." -- Shared by Kelly C.

 "The fear is worse than the pain." -- Shannon Bahr

 "If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter" -- Chekov

"The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true" -- Source Unknown"

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential" -- Rusty Berkus

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure" -- Joseph Campbell

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" -- Abraham Lincoln 

 "If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure." -- David Ambrose

"A free lunch is only found in mousetraps." -- John Capuzzi (Share by Matt Healy) 

 "The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own. - Author Unknown 

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The years teach much which the days never knew." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A brave man thinks no one superior who does him injury; for make himself superior to the other by forgiveness. -- Alexander Pope 

"David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him." -- John Fisher

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." -- Doug Ivester

"Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain." -- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun 

"No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself." -- Conrado I. Generoso

"The hard way is the right way" -- John Alves

"Don't worry so much about what others think of you, they are not thinking of you that much! It's true" -- Shared By Cathleen G.

"Have FUN at work... Focus on the customer, Understand the value of your team, Never have a boring day!" -- Kevin Mays 

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." -- Albert Einstein 

Why? Why Not? Why Not You? Why Not Now? -- Aslan

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"You must pay in the past to receive in the future." -- Taylor Simpson

"In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times." -- Shared by a member of our motivational community

"Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to." -- Satchel Paige

"Back in the 1950's, one of the best ways struggling new talent could start on the road to fame and fortune was to appear on a nationally televised program called the "Ted Mack Amateur Hour." A singer from Tennessee tried out for the show, but failed the audition. Today few people under 50 remember the "Ted Mack Amateur Hour" or any of the "winners" of the audition the singer failed, but every year the legend of the young man from Tennessee -- Elvis Presley -- grows." -- Jessica Hatchigan

"Our patience will achieve more than our force." -- Edmund Burke

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." -- Jean De La Bruyere 

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." -- Lao Tsu

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out." -- Ray Bradbury

"Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that "advantage" human life." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." -- Les Brown

"Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny." -- William E. Gladstone

"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." -- Charles Dickens

"The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal." -- Cicero

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." -- E. E. Cummings

"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

"Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes." -- David Viscott, Risking

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." -- Jim Rohn

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Life is too short to be small." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks." -- Helen Keller

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." -- Hal Borland

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." -- Samuel Smiles

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." -- Albert Schweitzer

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." -- Melody Beattie

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years.The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!" -- John F. Kennedy

"Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it." -- Vince Lombardi

"Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible." -- Jane Rubietta (rom Quiet Places)

"Fall seven times; stand up eight." -- Japanese Proverb 

"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." -- Anthony Trollope

"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Scovel Shinn

"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though 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