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 | An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.
- Sri Chinmoy (Athlete, Musician) | |
| Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein (Physicist) | |
| What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
- George Eliot (Novelist) | |
| The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller (Teacher) | |
| My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering (Inventor) | |
| Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.
- T.E. Lawrence (Military Officer of Arabia) | |
| Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
- John Naisbitt (Trend analyst and presidential aide) | |
| Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- Seneca (Philosopher, Playwright) | |
| Your ability to focus is the most important success skill you can ever develop.
- Brian Tracy (Author) | |
| To become truly successful, you must learn to focus.
- Patricia Fripp (Author) | | |
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| The person who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. | |
| The success of tomorrow depends on the work of today. | |
| Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.
- C.W. Wendte | |
| People rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it. | |
| Success equals effort plus vision. | |
| No one can survive without a vision to pull them forward. | |
| Vision is seeing the invisible.
- Jonathan Swift | |
| Don't be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams. | |
| What is the greatest calamity? To have eyes and not see.
- Helen Keller | |
| If you do not plan for the future, you cannot have one.
- John Galsworthy | |
| Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.
- Dwight Eisenhower | |
| What we focus on determines what we miss - and what we become. | |
| There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
- Kurt Hahn | |
| We don't plan to fail. We just fail to plan. | |
| The last thing one knows is what to put first.
- Pascal | |
| Happiness, wealth and success are byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goal themselves.
- Dennis Waitley | |
| Success is the result of hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence.
- Colin Powell (Gen.) | |
| Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
- Arnold Toynbee (British historian, educator) | |
| Life offers two great gifts--time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.
- Richard Winword | |
| Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham | |
| Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
- Viktor Frankl (Author, Man's Search for Meaning) | |
| Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
- Stephen A. Brennan | |
| 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 | |
| The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli | |
| I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
- Og Mandino | |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle | |
| We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- English Poet | |
| Sow a thought, and your reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
- Samuel Smiles | |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost | | |
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| Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
- Zig Ziglar (Motivational Speaker) | |
| Where there is a will, there is a way is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement.
- Samuel Smiles (Scottish Author) | |
| Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.
- James Cash Penney (Founder of J.C. Penney) | |
| Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
- James Cash Penney (Founder of J.C. Penny) | |
| If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
- Lou Holtz (Coach) | |
| The political leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be superstars rather than heroes. The distinction is crucial. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about.
- Henry Kissinger (Secretary of State) | |
| "To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself."
- Soren Kierkegaard | | |
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| There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at 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 venture.
- William Shakespeare (Playwright) | |
| You are not your circumstances; you are your possibilities.
- Graham Stedman (Author of You Can Make It Happen) | |
| Imagination is the eye of the eye of the soul.
- Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | |
| If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, every young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
- Soren Kierkegaard (Theologian) | |
| This is true joy--the being used for a purpose recognized as a mighty one.
- George Bernard Shaw | |
| The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Socrates | | |
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| Learning from your mistakes is never fun, but that seems to be where you'll get the best education.
- Dave Thomas (Founder of Wendy's) | |
| If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok (College President) | | |
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| Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur (Inventor) | |
| Nothing in the world will 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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the
human race.
- Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. President) | | |
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| Unless a person takes charge of them, both work and free time are likely to be disappointing.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihlyi (Personal Management Expert) | |
| Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.
- Italian Proverb | |
| Have you ever been so busy driving that you don't have time to stop and get gas?
- Stephen Covey (Author) | |
| I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
- Ayn Rand (Writer) | | |
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| Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man...It is the comparison that makes you proud, the pleasure of being above the rest.
- C.S. Lewis | | |
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| Responsibility equals the price of greatness.
- Winston Churchill (Prime Minister) | |
| Genius is fostered by industry.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman statesman, orator) | |
| I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
- Helice Bridges | | |
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| If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau (Author) | |
| You may not have started out life in the best of circumstances. But, if you can find a mission in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you from achieving success.
- Kemmons Wilson (Founder of Holiday Inn) | |
| Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
- Gail Sheehy (Writer) | |
| To be successful, you've got to be willing to fail.
- Ronald Reagan (40th US President) | |
| The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit--and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him--and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
- J. Paul Getty | |
| Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- Henry Ford (Businessman) | | |
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Dr. Walter Bradley |
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"..thank you for sending me motivating e-mails to keep me going. My first round of tests went well, and now I'm trying to keep up with reading ahead and staying on top of things.."
-Melissa B. |
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