Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. - Norman Vincent Peale

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. - David Rockefeller

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. - Rachel Carson

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - James Allen

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. - Ben Stein

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - Anonymous

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. - Winston Churchill

Something to Think About -- Which of these sentences sound familiar to you? Act as though it's impossible to fail -- and it shall be. Act as though it's possible to fail -- and it shall be. The one you use is the one that works, so make sure you're using the one you want to work. Remember, your brain is listening to everything you think/say. - Jan Tincher

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. - Norman Cousins

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard

No matter what we want from life, we have to give up something in order to get it. - Raymond Holliwell

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. - Sophocles

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. - Charles M. Schwab

No one knows what he can do till he tries. - Publilius Syrus, Latin Writer

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. - Lena Horne

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters

If you don't know where you're going, you will wind up somewhere else. - Yogi Berra

It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it. - Howard Newton

The door to opportunity is marked push.

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite. - Robert Half

I think it's very important to be positive about everything in your life that's negative. You can turn a twist on it. - Barbra Streisand

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

'That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common floks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.' - L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz)

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them. - Steve Ibbotson

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Dulles

I can give you a six word formula for success 'Think things through - then follow through.'. - Eddie Rickenbacker

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down 70 times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number 71!'. - Richard Devos

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

The heights by great men reached & kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it. - John Christian Bovee

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - W. Sommerset Maugham

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream. - John Appleman

Everything starts with yourself - with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. - Tony Dorsett

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. - Victor Cherbuliez

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. - Anonymous

A life with love must have some thorns, but a life with no love will have no roses. - Anonymous

The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

What you do not like done to yourself, do not do unto others. - Confucius

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. - Jewish Proverb

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. - Friedrich Hebbel

There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logon Pearsall Smith

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. - Theodore Hesburgh

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. - Edward Eggleston

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. - Booker T. Washington

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.- Christian Gospels Proverb

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

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom. - Anthony Robbins

Determine what you want, then resolve to pay the price to get it. - Bunker Hunt

It is the necessity to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. - Wallace Stephens

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. - Alfred Sheinwold

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

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. - Spinoza

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. - Cicero

There is no victory at bargain basement prices. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. - John Abbott

If you have the desire, you are halfway there. - E. Crique

If a man writes a better book, preaches a better sermon, or makes a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun? - Katherine Graham

When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. - Anonymous

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. - James Corbett

To be trusted is a far greater compliment than to be loved. - James Ramsay MacDonald

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. - Vince Lombardi

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

...when you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life. - Stedman Graham

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. - Stewart B. Johnson

You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive and do not forget. - Thomas Stephen Szasz

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. - Thomas Fuller

They are able because they think they are able. - Virgil

The day will happen whether or not you get up. - John Ciardi

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggle only after you have paid the price. - Napolean Hill

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. - Dr. A. B. Meldrum

Never give up and never give in. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
- Robert Montgomery

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. - Woodrow Wilson

Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough. - Sir Frederick Henry Royce

Things are only worth what you make them worth. - Moliere

Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. - Louis Nizer

Behind an able man there are always other able men. - Chinese Proverb

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden

I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete. - J. Willard Marriott, Sr.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been. - William Hazlitt

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli

The resolved mind hath no cares. - George Herbert

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. - Joel Barker

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard Nixon

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create. - William Blake

Far better it is to dare to mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Our problems are man-made; therefore, they may be solved by man. - John F. Kennedy

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. - Sholem Asch

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Fr. Alfred D'Souza

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. - Dick Vermeil

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. - Edward Hodnett

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. - Helen Keller

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. - Igor Stravinsky

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. - Richard Bach

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. - Anonymous

The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. - Menicus

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift