Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Robert Half

The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’ is like asking ‘Who ought to be the
tenor in a quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sign tenor.
Henry Ford

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
Dale Carnegie

The only real security that a person can have in the world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable—this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
Lawrence Welk

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. 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.
George Bernard Shaw

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s–eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim-improve yourself.
Gilbert Arland

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

Talk doesn’t cook rice.
Chinese Proverb

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
Napoleon Hill

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do!
Johann Van Goethe

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

When I must criticize somebody, I do it orally; when I praise somebody, I put it in writing.
Lee Iacocca

Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
John Milton

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about
it.
Harold Sherman

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

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

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

A man is the origin of his action.
Aristotle

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marion Wright Edelman

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
General George Patton

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you
meet it with the best you have to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Without struggle there is no progress.
Fredrick Douglas

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz

Little minds are tamed by misfortune and subdued by misfortune; but great
minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

One of the greatest lessons an individual can embrace is that adversity can exits only when nothing is done.
Jeffrey Benjamin

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

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms 30:5

I know god will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.
Swedish Proverb

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

There is very little difference in people. But that difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
Norman Cousins

Your mental attitude is your real boss.
Napoleon Hill

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Attitude is the reflection of a person and our world mirrors our attitude.
Earl Nightingale

If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Richard M. De Vos

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe
that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all they way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Walt Disney

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
Lou Holtz

Every great business is built on friendship.
J. C. Penney

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul Getty

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable to you.
B. C. Forbes

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
Ronald Reagan

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.
Tom Peters

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Ann Landers

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be, exactly what we wish.
Anthony Robbins

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

John D. Rockefeller

A man’s character is his fate.

Heraclitus

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Abigail Van Buren

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling

Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
John Stuart Mill

The last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Victor Frankl

You have brains in your head. You have feed in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss

Everyone has it within their power to say, this I am today, that I shall be
Tomorrow.
Louis L’Amour