You're not supposed to die with your potential.  A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it. - Erwin Raphael McManus

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt.  That's true financial independence. - Stephen Covey

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you. - Dale Carnegie

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump

What do you want to do? What do you want to be? What do you want to have? Where do you want to go? Who do you want to go with? How the hell do you plan to get there? Write it down. Go do it. Enjoy it. Share it. It doesn't get much simpler or better than that. – Lee Iacocca

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. – Albert Einstein

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed. Alan Loy McGinnis

You'll always have everything in life that you want IF you help enough people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar. – Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter

Decide to love and do what you like. – St. Augustine

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise. – Abraham Lincoln

People with humility don't think less of themselves - they just think about themselves less.– Ken Blanchard

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.– Wayne Gretzky

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.– William Shakespeare

Once our minds are "tattooed" with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish – John Maxwell

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate – Donald Trump

To every person there comes that special moment when he is tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to him. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared for the work that would be his finest hour.– Winston Churchill

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.– Vince Lombardi

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is; just bring the damn ship in.

Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you change.–Jesse Jackson

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.– NASA slogan

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.– Florence Nightingale

The first 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.– Thomas Edison

Believe it! High expectations are the key to everything.– Sam Walton

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.– Roger Williams

If you put everything off till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.– Norman Vincent Peale

An excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie– Billy Sunday

The only reason anyone ever gets laid off is because someone, somewhere, in some department of a company did not make sales. Most people would rather gamble on someone else they don't even know to make the sales, than they would on themselves. – Jaime Hepp

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.– Muhammad Ali

People today spend money they don't have, to buy things they don't need, to impress others they don't even like. – Bruce Templeton

I never met a man that was good at making excuses that was good at anything else. - Ben Franklin

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.– Sophia Loren

Quit sitting up there in the bleachers. Come on down on the field. Suit up! Roll around in the dirt! Take a chance on missing a pass, fumbling the ball or making a jackass of yourself. That's what the champions are willing to do. – Mistakes are Great

"It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes." - John Wooden The Wizard of Westwood

"Good things may come to those who wait, but only the things left over by those who hustle."  Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill

"Personal growth is not accidental.  It's purely intentional." - John Maxwell

"Without a test there is no testimony." - Stephon Seales

"The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom." - Dr. Eugene Swearingen

"The definition of job security: Making your passion your profession." - John Maxwell

"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't" - Entrepreneur Magazine

"It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free." - Erwin McManus

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

"The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders... people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead." - Jack Welch

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." - Thomas Edison

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

"Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves." - Vera Quinn

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge

"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both." - anonymous

"There's nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequals." - Ken Blanchard

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning."
- Catherine Aird British crime fiction novelist

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Unknown Author

"For every person that climbs the ladder of success, there are dozens waiting for the elevator." - Unknown

"The highways of life are filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make decisions." - John Maxwell

"The difference between winners and whiners is very simple:  whiners want to feel good before they do something;  winners do something, and then they feel good." - John Maxwell