Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle
Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Unknown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Reggie Leach
Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ~Francis Bacon
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley
Now I know, a refuge never growsfrom a chin in the hand and a thoughtful poseGotta tend the earth if you want a rose.~Indigo Girls
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers
Some people dream of success...while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Unknown
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Unknown
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. ~Unknown
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian proverb
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Unknown
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese proverb
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. ~Adolph Monod
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch proverb
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 will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Unknown
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese proverb
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Unknown
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker
Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier
The race is not always to the swift...but to those who keep on running. ~Unknown
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott
It is never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot
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
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Unknown
Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. ~Advertisement on a billboard
Someday is not a day of the week. ~Unknown
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish proverb
The best way to get something done is to begin. ~Unknown
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Unknown
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Unknown
The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ~Henry Ford
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. ~Thomas A. Edison
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. ~Unknown
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. ~Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949
Know your limits...but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Unknown
Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. ~Unknown
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. ~Henry Ford, Sr.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~Peter Drucker
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. ~Unknown
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese proverb
When the horse is dead, get off. ~Unknown
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Unknown
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius
Success & Failure
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas Edison
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. ~William Strong
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert Hubbard
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher
Failure is an event...not a person. ~Unknown
There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen
Don't aim for success, if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost
What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Unknown
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~Samuel Beckett
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ~Robert Schuller
It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Unknown
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Unknown
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Worry
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell
If things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Roger Babson
Worry is interest paid in advance for a debt you may never owe. ~Unknown
Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff.Rule #2: It's all small stuff.~Dr. Michael Mantell
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Unknown
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie
I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown
Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them. ~Unknown
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Unknown
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. ~Unknown
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ~Plato
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Death"
If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. ~From the television show Roseanne
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke
He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone
Living in the Now
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. ~Robert . ~Jan Glidewell
Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold
I can't wait all my life on a street of broken dreams.~Journey, "It Could Have Been You"
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Unknown
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian proverb
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. ~T. Sachs
Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Unknown
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~The Music Man
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ~Charles F. Kettering
Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese proverb
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln
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