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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
 
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert EinsteinAnyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. 
- Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
- Sydney Harris

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans

 


11 Comments

  1. Andrea Solomon says:

    Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  2. A. Lam says:

    If you don’t like the road you’re walking, pave another one.

  3. Shirley Lin says:

    It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

  4. Carolyn Gay says:

    Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

  5. Brenda Dixon says:

    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

  6. Tyler Williamson says:

    Blame someone else and get on with your life.

  7. Doris Glenn says:

    The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  8. Dorothy May says:

    Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

  9. E. Young says:

    Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

  10. Ann Mata says:

    One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  11. W. Rodgers says:

    You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

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