“The world may owe you a living but it’s up to you to collect it.”
"The years teach much which the days never knew." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
“There are three types of people, those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that say, “What the heck just happened!”
“There are two types of speakers. Those who get nervous and those who are liars.” – Mark Twain
“There is no such thing as a self made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
“There is no reality, there is only perception, your perception is your reality.” – Dr. Phil McGraw
“There is only one thing money won’t buy and that’s poverty.”
“There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” – Jack Bergman
“These walls are funny, first you hate them, then you get used to them, then you depend on them.” - Morgan Freeman from Shawshank Redemption
“Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.”
“Those who hug illusions seldom embrace opportunity.”
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tides and time wait for no man.”
“To be a winner on the outside, you must first feel like a winner on the inside.”
“To do the impossible, you must see the invisible.”
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.” – John Churton Collins
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” – Abraham H. Maslow
“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
“Tough times don’t last but tough people do.”
“True confidence comes from our ability to uncover and accept our weaknesses and to discover and use our strengths.” – Gerhard Gschwandtner
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We all find occasions where we have to chose between what we believe is right and what we suspect is advantageous.” – Sam Ervin Jr.
“We are always complaining that our days are few & acting as though there would be no end to them.”
“We are more likely to act our way into feeling than feel our way into acting.” – William James, psychologist
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“We see what we choose to see.”
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“What happened makes us who we are, what we make happen makes us who we become.” – Marshall W. Northcott
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What’s providing you with an excuse to express your lack of self control?” – Marshall W. Northcott
“What’s right is right & what’s wrong is wrong.” – Sam Ervin Jr.
“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” Mark Twain
“When the music is finished, it’s time to stop dancing.”
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
“When there is enough positive energy, when there is enough people there who really care, anything can happen.” – Scott Hamilton
Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs 29:18a
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower." - Maxwell Maltz
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right”. – Henry Ford
"Why is it in life we honor the conformist but in death we honor the trouble maker?" - Dr. Wayne Dyer
“Winners make a habit of doing the things that losers won’t.”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
“Worry is misuse of the imagination.” – Mary Crowley
“Wouldn’t it make our lives simpler if everyone and everything was what it seemed to be?” – Marshall W. Northcott
“Yesterday is a cancelled check, today is cash in hand and tomorrow is a promissory note.”
“Yesterday is history tomorrow’s a mystery.”
“You become what you think about.”
“You can count the number of apples in a tree, but you can’t count the number of trees in an apple.”
“You can either make money, or make excuses, but you can’t make both.”
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. But you can put salt in his oats.”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie
“You can see a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a freight train.”
“You can tell the size of a man by what makes him angry.”
“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
You can’t kiss a girl leaning away from you,
You can’t climb a fence leaning towards you,
You can’t push a rope,
And you can’t make someone do something that they don’t want to do.
“You can’t lose by asking, listening, learning and helping.”
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
“You can’t negotiate unless you can walk away.”
“You can’t steer a parked car.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
“You cannot get forward motion without some exhaust.”
“You don’t need it to work every time, you just need it to work one more time.”
“You get what you set out to do.” – John Hansan
“You have to protect yourself against yourself.”
“You have to clean up what’s on the inside before you can make a difference on the outside.”
“You never get ahead, when you set out to get even.”
“You rest, your rust.”
“You will always move in the direction of your most dominant thought.”
“You will change, when the pain of staying the same is exceeded by the pain of changing.”
“You will go beyond your comfort zone, when the pain of doing so, is exceeded by the pain of staying the same.”
“You won’t become good, by deciding not to be bad
You won’t excel, by deciding not to be mediocre
And you won’t win, by deciding not to lose
You’ll become good by deciding to be good,
You’ll excel when you decide to excel
And you’ll win when you decide to win.”
“You’ll never know what you’re capable of until you do it”.
“You’re only as bad as your secrets.”
You’ve heard people say, “it’s too good to be true”, but you never hear anyone say, “It’s too bad to be true”.
“Your activity will not out perform your thoughts. Or “You’ll never outperform your thoughts.”
“Your mind is like a rubber band, once expanded it will never return to its original shape.”
“Your struggle may be lasting, but it is not ever lasting.”
“Your word is your worth, your worth is your word.”
“You’ll either be disciplined from within or disciplined from without.”
“You’ll only become frustrated trying to fit an 8 x 10 idea into a 3 x 5 mind.” – Mike Murdock