"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life."
-- Oprah Winfrey, talk show host

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
-- John D. Rockefeller

"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
-- Edward deBono

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
-- Thomas Edison

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher

"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"
-- Anthony Robbins

"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

"Be quick but do not hurry."
-- John Wooden

"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

"We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat."
-- Winston Churchill, Former British prime minister

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. "
-- Moliere, Playwright

"Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch. "
-- Sir Robert Baden Powell

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures."
-- John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
-- Moliere, Playwright

"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
-- Carl Jung

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
-- Denis Waitley

"No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way."
-- Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
-- Roger Bannister, Runner

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."
-- Napolean Hill, Motivational Writer

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."
-- Denis Waitley

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results."
-- Vince Lombardi, coach

"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

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
-- Thomas J. Watson Sr., executive

"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be"
-- Og Mandino, author

"It's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
-- Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver

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

"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."
-- Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924), 28th U.S. President

"He who hesitates is poor."
-- Mel Brooks, director

"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
-- Og Mandino, author

"There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it when circumstances permit. When you are committed, you accept no excuses, only results."
-- Art Turock, author

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
-- Thomas Paine

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
-- Ralph Marston, Author

"No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate."
-- Matt Cameron, Musician

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. "
-- Albert Camus

"Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' -- that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
-- Peter F. Drucker

"I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."
-- Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president

"Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
-- Lewis Cass

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
-- Muhammad Ali, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
-- Denis Waitley

"Miracles can be made, but only by sweating."
-- Giovanni Agnelli, auto executive

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and the good learn wisdom for the future."
-- Plutarch, Historian

"The only decent thing to do behind a person's back is to pat it."
-- Anonymous

"Everyone starts from scratch, but not everyone keeps on scratching!"
-- Anonymous

"Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
-- Anthony Robbins

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."
-- Denis Waitley

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-- Anonymous (from Chinese proverb)

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
-- Wayne Dyer

"Much effort, much prosperity."
-- Euripides

"One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
-- Sir Edmund Hilary, First to reach the summit of Mount Everest

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
-- Vince Lombardi, Legendary Football Coach

"In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
-- Max Dupree, Author

"I will study and prepare, and someday my opportunity will come."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

"The 6 P Rule: Proper prior planning prevents poor performance."
-- Unknown

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking: what's in it for me?"
-- Brian Tracy, Author

"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing."
-- Alexander Woollcott, Critic and Commentator for The New Yorker magazine

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
-- Winston Churchill

"Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want."
-- Robert G Allen, author

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-- John Wooden, Basketball Hall of Famer

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford

"There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done. "
-- Brian Tracy, author

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."
-- Denis Waitley

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
-- Henry Ford, auto maker

"The will to prepare to win is infinitely more important than the will to win."
-- Bobby Knight, Coach

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."
-- Brian Tracy

"A leader must be virtuous and preserve their integrity by standing strong in the face of adversity and challenge."
-- Bill Fleming, Jr.

"Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
-- Confucius

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
-- Western Union Internal Memo 1876

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
-- Ralph Lauren, fashion designer

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation the hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
-- Jacob Brownowski

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
-- Denis Waitle

"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."
-- William Jennings Bryan

"What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!"
-- Donald Trump, Billionaire Real Estate Developer

"Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations."
-- Federico Fellini

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind."
-- Anil Ambani, Billionaire Businessman

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time."
-- Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

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

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
-- Charles Darwin, British Naturalist

"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

"You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
-- Douglas MacArthur, General

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself."
-- Dr Phil, Motivational Author and Talk Show Host

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But, I can't accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan, basketball star

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

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

"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."
-- Henry Ford, Industrialist

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness-its opposite-never led to good intention's goal."
-- Miguel de Cervantes, writer

"Every man dies. Not every man lives. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the 'buts' you use today."
-- Les Brown, Bandleader

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
-- ­ John Steinbeck, author

"I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes."
-- Henry Kaiser, businessman

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."
-- Pat Riley, Basketball Coach

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it's on . . . a football field, in an army or in an office."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President

"The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you."
-- Derek Jeter, baseball player

"To reach [our goal], we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first."
-- Harry Truman, 33rd US President

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers, Humorist

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust, Author

"It is impossible to win the great prizes in life without running risks."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
-- Walt Disney, Theme Park Mogul

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."
-- Louis Pasteur, microbiologist

"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish ­ it is then that you must not hesitate."
-- Dag Hammarskjold, statesman

"I used to eat a lot of natural foods...until I learned that most people die of natural causes"
-- Neal Boortz

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
-- Stan Smith, Tennis Champion

"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, educator

"Postponing action is only postponing achievement."
-- Rick Pitino, Coach

"The one thing that matters is the effort."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot, author

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen"
-- Lee Iacocca, automobile executive

"Courage is doing what you'¹re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're¹re scared."
-- Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
-- Seneca, Roman philosopher

"A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises."
-- Anonymous

"The deed is everything, the glory nothing."
-- ­ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer

"The one thing that matters is the effort."
-- ­ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot, author

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
-- Steven Wright ­ Scientist/Comic

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
-- ­ Lee Iacocca, automobile executive

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve"
-- Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, Lt. General, commanding the 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, always the 1st Brigade

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less"
-- Robert E. Lee, Commanding General of the Army of Northern Virginia

"Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival."
-- ­ W. Edwards Deming, management consultant

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves . . . Self-discipline with all of them came first."
-- ­ Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
-- ­ John Ruskin, art critic

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-- ­ John Quincy Adams, sixth US president

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
-- ­ Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

"A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction."
-- ­ Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, author

"I didn't get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it."
-- ­ Estee Lauder, entrepreneur

"Little minds . . . are subdued by misfortune . . . Great minds rise above them."
-- ­ Washington Irving, writer

"The most effective way to manage change is to create it."
-- ­ Peter Drucker, management advisor

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it¹s on . . . a football field, in an army or in an office."
-- ­ Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U. S. president

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
-- ­ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
-- ­ Arnold Palmer, golfer

"I attribute my success to this ­ I never gave or took any excuse."
-- ­ Florence Nightingale, nurse

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
-- John Wayne, actor

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-- ­Winston Churchill, British statesman

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
-- ­ Pablo Picasso, artist

"Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air."
-- ­John Adams, second US president

"Goals are just wishes until they're written down!"
-- Anonymous

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
-- ­ Roger Bannister, runner

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
-- ­ Elinor Smith, aviator

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
-- ­ Oprah Winfrey, broadcaster, entrepreneur

"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."
-- ­ Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist

"One of the top 10 keys to Success is good communication. Without it you do not know where you stand or what others want."
-- Bill Fleming, Jr.

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Raymond Chandler, writer

"You can only stumble if you're moving."
-- Roberto Goizueta

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."
-- J.C. Watts, United States Congressman

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up."
-- Tommy Lasorda

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not . . . the world is full of educated derelicts."
-- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept the direction."
-- Vince Lombardi

"No great performance came from holding back."
-- Don Greene

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams

"Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company."
-- George Washington, 1st President of the United States

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must . . . be undaunted when the going gets tough."
-- Ronald Reagan - 40th US President

"There is no substitute for hard work."
-- Thomas Edison

"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."
-- William J. H. Boetcker

"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
-- Franz Kafka, Writer

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
-- Edward R. Murrow, news broadcaster

"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
-- Franz Kafka, Writer

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence in seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
-- Tom Landry - Football Coach

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman, Author

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."
-- Madeleine L'Engle, writer

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein, physicist

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman, Author

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
-- Babe Ruth, baseball player

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
-- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

"A genius is a talented person who does his homework."
-- Thomas Edison, inventor

"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation."
-- William Arthur Wood, author

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
-- Arnold Palmer, golfer

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
-- Vince Lombardi, coach

"Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well."
-- Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric chief executive

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president

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

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
-- Walter Cronkite, journalist

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
-- Bobby Unser, race car driver

"No person has ever been honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
-- Calvin Coolidge, 30th US president

"I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

"Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
-- Frederick B. Wilcox

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting."
-- Carlos Casteneda, Writer

"Choice, not chance, determines human destiny."
-- Robert w. Ellis

"The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have."
-- Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
-- Samuel Johnson, Essayist, Lexicographer

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter"
-- Dan Reeves, Football Coach

"Your greatness is measured by your horizons."
-- Michaelangelo

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."
-- Dale Carnegie, Author

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
-- Winston Churchill, Former British Prime Minister

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
-- William Channing, Theologian

"Each man is the architect of his own fortune."
-- Appius Caecus, Builder

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
-- Leon Suenens, Clergyman

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

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
-- William Faulkner, Author

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday."
-- Charles Kettering, Inventor

"Courage is grace under pressure."
-- Ernest Hemingway, Author

"A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."
-- John Burroughs, Writer

"Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil"
-- Anonymous

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
-- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

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

"Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it 'lights the candle' instead of 'cursing the darkness'."
-- Anonymous

"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

"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

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."
-- Galileo

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim and have fixed their gaze on a goal that is high — one that sometimes seems impossible."
-- Orison Swett Marden, Motivational Writer

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
-- Albert Camus

"Our greatess weakenss lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
-- Thomas Edison, Inventor

"My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world."
-- William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
-- Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
-- Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-- John Wooden

"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan, basketball player

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
-- Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company