"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Ability is what you're capable of doing Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you."

"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

"There's a way to do it better — find it."

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough; that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose."

"Who works achieves and who sows reaps."

"I don't believe in circumstances. 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."

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."

"Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

"Never let anyone tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

"They can because they think they can."

"As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still — and persevere."

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."

"When you say 'I will' with conviction, magic begins to happen."

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

"How you spend your time defines who you are."

"The key to success is for you is to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."

"We are what we repeatedly do."

"Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself."

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

"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."

"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

"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."

"Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential."

"You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts."

"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."

"The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly exceed them."

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation."

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

"While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence will always lead you to your dreams."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing — the result."

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours."

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

"Every child is born a genius, but the reason that most people do not function at genius level is because they are not aware of how creative and smart they really are. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before."

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"It's always too soon to quit."

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"If not now, when?"

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

"You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds."

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never."

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

"Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume."

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears."

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

"Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned."

"When you walk your talk, people listen."

"There are no gains, without pains."

"I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are."

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"Confidence is contagious."

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."

"Use your good judgment in all situations."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

"Go out and make yourself useful."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone..."

"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."

"Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

"What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."

"To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that."

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Johann Goethe (1749-1832)
German dramatist, poet & novelist

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."