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Motivation

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.  Your mind transcends limitations. Your consciousness expands in every direction. And you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.  Patanjali

 

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

 

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.  Zig Ziglar

 

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.  David Lloyd George

 

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by

those who hustle.  Abraham Lincoln

 

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with

the bricks others have thrown at him.  David Brinkley
 

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.  Booker T. Washington

 

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.  Jonathan Winters

 

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings

and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be
able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies
anyways.  Mary Kay Ash
 

Well done is better than well said.  Benjamin Franklin

 

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

 

For to seek grand results, without great effort, you are a fool to even dream it.  Thomas Jefferson

 

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.  Theodore Roosevelt

 

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

 

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

 

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

 

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank

 

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist and Author

 

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon

 

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
(Submitted by Karen Franciola of Gansevoort, NY)

 

When the world says, Give up, hope whispers, try it one more time. Author Unknown

 

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve

 

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

 

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. Nora Roberts

 

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones

 

Merit begets confidence, confidence begets enthusiasm, enthusiasm conquers the world. Walter H. Cottingham

 

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. Donald Trump

 

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Richard Bach, Author

 

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. John F. Kennedy

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Elliot

 

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Unknown

 

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

 

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. Irving Berlin

 

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

 

Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. L. A. Safian

 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln

 

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. Wilma Rudolph, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events.

 

Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible. Author Unknown

 

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison

 

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. Sir Edmund Hillary, Mountaineer and Explorer

 

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. Cyrus Curtis

 

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you. Jeffrey Gitomer, Author

 

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George

 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau

 

Things turn out best for those that make the best of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter

 

A parrot talks much but flies little. Wilbur Wright

 

It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success. Rick Beneteau

 

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve

 

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

 

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. Unknown

 

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. English Proverb

 

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar

 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams

 

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. Samuel Johnson

 

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi

 

A parrot talks much but flies little. Wilbur Wright

 

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

 

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. Malcolm Forbes

 

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford

 

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. Leo Burnett

 

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford

 

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. There is genius, power and magic in boldness. JohannWolfgang von Goethe

 

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. Ralph Marston

 

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery

 

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Thomas Jefferson

 

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela

 

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you. Louise Hay

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

 

Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use in trying.’ She said. ‘One can’t believe in impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice.’ Said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ LewisCarroll

 

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, a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece. Author Unknown

 

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. Martha Graham

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

A dream is a wish your heart makes -when you’re fast asleep. Cinderella

 

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. Tom Clancy

 

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. William James

 

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

 

There are those that look at things the way they are and ask, Why. I dream of things that never were and ask, Why not. Robert F. Kennedy

 

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Muhammad Ali

 

A dream is woven from thin air and nothing, embroidered with wishes and everything, then filled with the padding of hope and delight. James W. King

 

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

 

To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. Peter McWilliams

 

Dream is the spark of passion; talent is the firework of its expression; perseverance, the sacred fire of its accomplishment. Daniel Chabot

 

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. Phantom F Harlock

 

 

There is often in people to whom the worst has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced the worst and survived it. Carol Pearson

 

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen Covey

 

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

 

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

 

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A.Edison

 

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie

 

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

 

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

 

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh

 

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan

The challenge is not to manage time,but to manage ourselves. Steven Covey

 

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks. Malcom S. Forbes

 

Climb high. Climb far. Your goal the sky. Your aim the star. Hopkins Memorial Steps, Williams College,Williamstown, Mass.

 

The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. United States Armed Service Forces

 

Hitch your wagon to a star. RalphWaldo Emerson

 

By small and simple things are great things brought to pass. Alma 37:6

 

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

Happiness does not come by pressing a button, as does the electric light; happiness is a state of mind and comes from within. It must be earned. Spencer W. Kimball

 

A goal is a dream with a deadline. Harvey Mackay

 

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby

 

Today's mighty oak is yesterday's little acorn that held it's ground. Author Unknown

 

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King,Jr.

 

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright

 

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. Anonymous

 

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. Leonardo da Vinci

 

If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton, Founder of Wal Mart

 

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown

 

You don't just stumble into the future, you create your own future. Roger Smith

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller

 

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev

 

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the answers. Earl Gray Stevens

 

The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi

 

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca

 

Use what talents you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

 

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France

 

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry Thoreau

 

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. G.K. Chesterton

 

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson

 

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. Michael Althsuler

 

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be. Malcolm Forbes

 

 

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Thomas Paine

 

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