Abilities
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U. S. President
Accountability
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer
Accomplishment
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It’s pretty straight forward.
Nancy Ditz, marathoner
Action
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson, editor
Action
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
H. Jackson Brown, author
Action
Begin with the end in mind.
Stephen R. Covey, author & BYU professor
Action
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart, aviator
Action
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
Langston Hughes, poet
Action
Done is better than perfect.
Sheryl Sandberg, former Meta Platforms COO
Adversity
If you’re going through hell, keep on going.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Adversity
When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
Age
Getting old is like climbing a mountain– you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.
Ingrid Bergman, actress
Age
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis, actress
Age
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli, former British prime minister
Age
When you wake up in the morning, don’t let the old man in.
Clint Eastwood, actor
Anticipation
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky, hockey legend
Arguments
I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Attitude
We draft great attitudes. We can change skill levels through training. We can’t change attitude.
Herb Kelleher, founder & former CEO of Southwest Airlines
Attitude
Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.
Alexander Kjerulf, author
Attitude
Your psychological well-being depends less on the the things that happen to you and more on the things you pay attention to.
Alex Korb, neuroscientist
Attitude
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything – the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
Bill Murray, actor
Authenticity
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland, entertainer
Boldness
Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder
Boldness
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills, opera singer
Capitalism
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Career
Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Multiple Authors
Career
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
Caring
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady
Caring
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
Challenges
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Picasso, artist
Challenges
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Quintus Sertorius, Roman general and statesman
Change
You cannot make a three-year plan like 10 years ago. We make a three-year plan, but you have to surf inside this plan because everything changes every day.
Remo Ruffini, CEO, Moncler
Clarity
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams, photographer
Clarity
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett, businessman
Commitment
Take your passion and make it happen.
Irene Cara, singer
Commitment
There are few financial variables more correlated to performance than commitment to a strategy during its lean years– both the amount of performance an the odds of capturing it over a given period of time. The historical odds of making money in U.S. markets are 50/50 over one-day periods, 68% in one-year periods, 88% in 10-year periods, and (so far) 100% in 20-year periods. Anything that keeps you in the game has a quantifiable advantage.
Morgan Housel, financial writer
Commitment
If you don’t make a total commitment to what you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
Lou Holtz, football coach
Commitment
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
Caroline Myss, author
Communication
Looking people in the eye is the best way to communicate empathy, to avoid conflict, to dispel conflict, to fall in love– it’s all through the eyes.
Idris Elba, actor
Communication
As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what’s going on, you’re very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you’re guaranteed to fail.
Ben Horowitz, venture capitalist and entrepreneur
Communication
To build a successful business, you’ve got to have a vision of what you think that business is and what it could become, and how to translate that vision into something operational and meaningful to your employees, customers, and other stakeholders.
Robert Johnson, businessman
Composure
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles Swindoll, pastor
Confidence
Half of getting there is having the confidence to show up– and keep showing up.
Sophia Amoruso, businesswoman
Confidence
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers, psychologist
Confidence
While I feel your stares, your disapproval or your sighs of relief, if I lived by them, I’d never be able to move.
Billie Eilish, Grammy Award-winning musician
Confidence
The secret of life is owning it. You own your imperfections; they become your assets. You own your vulnerability; it becomes your strength.
Diane von Furstenburg, fashion designer
Confidence
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi, football coach
Confidence
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori, educator
Confidence
The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you’re going to do it right.
Burt Reynolds, actor
Consistency
Accomplish something every day of your life.
Walter Annenberg, media magnate
Consistency
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.
Vince Lombardi, football coach
Consistency
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
Conviction
The fact is that my appetite for risk was far greater than that of other people, and my courage in my own conviction was unshakable.
Sheldon Adelson, founder of Las Vegas Sands corporation
Conviction
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle, writer
Conviction
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Conviction
Fight for things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Supreme Court Justice
Conviction
Have an ultimate belief in yourself. Why is someone going to believe in you if you can’t believe in yourself?
Mindy Grossman, executive
Courage
What I’ve learned is that when you conquer your fears, you find strength you didn’t know you had. And you’re capable of doing incredible things.
Renee Brinkerhoff, race-car driver
Courage
When you’re taking a big leap into the life you desire, you’re allowed to be scared. Courage is about being afraid and choosing to leap anyway, nerves and all.
Christine Gutierrez, psychotherapist
Courage
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
Culture
Collaboration has nothing to do with where employees show up for work; it has everything to do with how they show up.
Keith Ferrazzi, businessman and author
Culture
When your best player’s working harder than everybody and holding everyone accountable, that’s a winning culture.
Grant Hill, basketball player
Curiosity
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Death
Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot yacht with a 17-year-old girl. Walter’s always wanted to go that way, but he’s going to settle for a 17-footer and a 70-year-old.
Mrs. Walter Cronkite, wife to Walter Cronkite
Death
I don’t want to achieve immortality by being inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
Leo Durocher, baseball player
Death
The wife of one of my friends recently passed on. He confessed to me that he was torn by poignant regrets: He had hoped to do many things for her. Now it was too late. Bruce Barton many years ago announced that he was going to take his family on a trip around the world. I wrote congratulating him. He replied: “There are a thousand-and-one reasons why I shouldn’t give up everything to do this, but I am going to do it just the same.” And he did. After you are entombed, you can do nothing. So don’t wait until it is too late.
B.C. Forbes, publisher
Death
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle, former president of France
Death
Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.
Bill Musselman, basketball coach
Death
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Pancho Villa, Bandit and former governor of Chihuahua
Decisiveness
There’s a point when you go with what you’ve got. Or you don’t go.
Joan Didion, writer
Decisiveness
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
Democracy
Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time..
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Democracy
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Details
Sometimes the smallest decisions can change your life forever.
Keri Russell, actress
Details
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden, basketball coach
Determination
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer, golfer
Diplomacy
You can always wait until tomorrow to tell someone to go to hell.
Warren Buffett, businessman
Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Distractions
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Dreams
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
Dreams
I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest while I’m sleeping. You become what you think about the most.
Daymond John, Investor and TV personality
Dreams
Nothing happens unless at first a dream.
Carl Sandberg, author
Education
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the Atomic bomb
Efficiency
The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
Effort
It is no use saying “we are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what’s necessary.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Effort
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova, ballerina
Effort
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
Ego
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden, basketball coach
Enemies
When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize that no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Evolving
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham, writer
Failure
Never avoid doing something because you’re afraid to fail. Everything in my life that’s been valuable and precious is something I was almost too scared to do.
Amy Chua, author and law professor
Failure
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore, actress
Failure
Nobody has ever learned anything worth learning that hasn’t cost them some degree of failure.
Kelly Ripa, talk show host
Failure
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
Family
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns, comedian
Family
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Sam Levenson, humorist
Fear
Fear is a reaction, Courage is a decision.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Fear
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks, activist
Focus
Concentrate your resources to win. You have a chance to lose because you might pick the wrong objective. On the other hand, if you don’t concentrate, it’s a sure loss.
Alex d’Arbeloff, founder of Teradyne
Focus
Paying attention to five things in a highly efficient, systematic way will always beat paying attention to 50 in an undisciplined way.
Leigh Drogen, CEO, Estimize
Goals
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman
Goals
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. And many don’t aim at all.
Les Brown, speaker
Goals
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
James Cameron, filmaker
Goals
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot, poet
Goals
If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to build theirs.
Tony Gaskins, motivational speaker
Goals
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca, auto executive
Goals
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worth the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert, engineer and philosopher
Goals
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross, entertainer
Goals
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, writer and aviator
Goals
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau, philosopher
Government
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Government
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help”.
Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president
Greatness
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh, artist
Grit
Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
Angela Duckworth, psychologist
Habits
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle, philosopher
Habits
Discipline morphs into habit.
Twyla Tharp, dancer & choreographer
Habits
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana, writer
Imagination
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius, former Roman emperor
Imagination
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
Walt Disney, animation film producer
Imagination
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Imagination
It’s always impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela, statesman
In the Moment
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Bill Watterson, cartoonist
Inflation
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Milton Friedman, economist
Inflation
Lenin was certainly right: There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
John Maynard Keynes, economist
Inflation
I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.
Jay Leno, television host
Inflation
Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.
Jacques Rueff, former minister of state of Monaco
Initiative
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato, philosopher
Innovation
Being wrong might hurt you a bit, but being slow will kill you. If you can increase the number of experiments you try from a hundred to a thousand, you dramatically increase the number of innovations you produce.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder
Innovation
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Innovation
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac, novelist
Innovation
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
Brent Scowcroft, former U.S. national security advisor
Integrity
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Integrity
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president
Integrity
The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Harrington Emerson, efficiency engineer
Kindness
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop, Greek storyteller
Kindness
If you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O’Brien, comedian
Kindness
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
Fred Rogers, TV host
Leadership
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president
Leadership
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou, poet
Leadership
Leadership is about wanting the responsibility to be on your shoulders, not ignoring the weight, but knowing someone has to carry it and reaching out for that person to be you. Leaders are heat seekers, not heat deflectors.
Tony Blair, former British prime minister
Leadership
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president
Leadership
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow a weak trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh, former president, University Notre Dame
Leadership
Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, “I’m your leader!” if it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you.
Ben Roethlisberger, NFL quarterback
Leadership
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Swope, journalist
Learning
Seek advice from others in your profession who have been successful and who have achieved the goals that you want. Talk to those who have been through it and have been successful. Learn.
Elgin Baylor, basketball player
Learning
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Learning
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Learning
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford, Ford Motor founder
Learning
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci, artist
Learning
One of my mantras is to learn something new each day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
Life
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, it must be accepted.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Listening
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Listening
Listen, listen, listen. You’ll be amazed at how many people can contribute and help you. Listening is a gift that keeps on giving.
William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin’ Donuts
Listening
The important thing in communication is understanding what isn’t said.
Peter Drucker, author
Listening
The key to leadership is listening– being good at listening is so much more powerful than having all the answers, or pretending to have all the answers.
Emily Weiss, businesswoman
Mindfulness
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will Rogers, humorist
Mistakes
It is necessary to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Hyman Rickover, admiral
Morale
Keep buggering on.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Motivation
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Augustine, former Lockheed Martin CEO
Motivation
Feeling like an underdog can be highly motivating.
Angela Duckworth, author
Motivation
The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute. In the long run, EQ (emotional quotient) trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO
Motivation
I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.
Anna Quindlen, author
Motivation
People often say motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar, author and speaker
Networking
You’ve got to develop relationships. You can’t do things just in a formal context.
Kenneth Chenault, former CEO of American Express
Networking
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler, actress
Networking
Luck plays a big role in life, and there is no better way to increase your luck than by knowing as many people as possible.
Byron Wien, Investor
Objectives
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz, military leader
Openness
Your mind is like a parachute: If it isn’t open, it doesn’t work.
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Opinions
Abraham Lincoln– He would express no opinion on anything, Herndon observed, until he knew his subject “inside and outside, upside and downside”.
William H. Herndon, law partner
Optimism
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Optimism
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Carl von Clausewitz, military leader
Optimism
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher
Passion
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin, physicist & U.S. statesman
Passion
If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
Passion
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele, soccer player
Patience
Make haste, slowly.
Augustus Caesar, former Roman emperor
Patience
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius, philosopher
Payback
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra, entertainer
Peace of Mind
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie, inventor
Peace of Mind
We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don’t deserve it. It doesn’t matter if they’re family or if you’ve known them forever. If they’re not good for you, they’ve got to go.
Gabrielle Union, actress
Perfection
Perfection in all things is usually a laudable goal, but sometimes the pursuit of perfection can be the enemy of progress.
Multiple Authors
Persistence
I try to do the right thing at the time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, retired basketball star
Persistence
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Education alone will not: The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. president
Persistence
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison, inventor
Persistence
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison, inventor
Persistence
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Persistence
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill, author
Persistence
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley, writer
Persistence
Failure, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis , author
Persistence
The steady tranquil dedication of a lifetime rather than short frenzied outbursts of emotion.
Dallin H. Oaks , LDS apostle
Persistence
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur, scientist
Persistence
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister
Persistence
There is no such things as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
Lee Trevino , golfer
Persistence
The most missed shots in the NBA were taken by Kobe Bryant.
Unknown
Personal Responsibility
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will– his personal responsibility.
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, philosopher, & physician
Personal Responsibility
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle, with me as its chief obstacle.
Jack Paar, talk show host
Personal Responsibility
The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
Perspective
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke, actress
Persuasion
The path to most hearts is through the brain.
Peggy Noonan, writer
Plans
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson, boxer
Politics
The things that one must do to get elected to high political office should automatically disqualify you from holding the office.
David W. Berry
Politics
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Politics
If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Positive Thinking
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Potential
There is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that’s less than the one you’re capable of living.
Nelson Mandela, statesman
Potential
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, philosopher, & physician
Preparation
To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes, novelist
Preparation
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
Winston Churchill , former British prime minister
Preparation
I’ve never left the field saying, “I could have done more to get ready.” And that gives me peace of mind.
Peyton Manning, NFL champion
Preparation
It all comes down to intelligently and relentlessly seeking solutions that will increase your chance of prevailing. When you do that, the score will take care of itself.
Bill Walsh, football coach
Principles
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney, entertainment executive
Priorities
The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing.
Donald P. Coduto, author and professor of geotechnical engineering
Priorities
Your work life is divided into two distinct areas– what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.
Gary Keller, entrepreneur
Priorities
I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.
Bryan Cranston, actor
Priorities
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer
Problems
When things go wrong in your command, start wading for the reason in increasingly larger concentric circles around your own desk.
Gen. Bruce C. Clarke, U.S. Army General
Problems
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal, 17th century painter
Regrets
A man is not old until regrets take the place of his dreams.
John Barrymore, actor
Relationships
Become genuinely interested in other people.
Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker
Relationships
People today are starving for genuine relationships, a sense of belonging, and the feeling of being known and understood. No one wants to keep sharing with someone fixated on their phone.
Brian Grazer, movie producer
Reputation
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin, author
Resilience
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Hellen Keller, author
Resilience
Don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George Patton, U.S. Army General
Resilience
Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending,
James R. Sherman, author
Resilience
I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.
Serena Williams, tennis champion
Results
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Results
I prided myself on winning. I learned at a very young age you can debate who the best player was or wasn’t, but you can’t debate who won or lost.
Jamaal Wilkes, basketball player
Risk
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong, author
Risk
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Phil Knight, Nike co-founder
Risk
You will never stub your toes standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but there is also a chance of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering, inventor
Risk
Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.
Nicola Yoon, author
Self-Awareness
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford, car executive
Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King, tennis champion
Self-Awareness
It’s better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
Simon Sinek, author
Self-Awareness
A man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright, author
Self-Control
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius, philosopher
Self-Control
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda, author
Self-Discipline
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… Self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. president
Self-Reflection
There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey, entertainer
Self-Worth
No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey, entertainer
Self-Worth
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes, publisher
Self-Worth
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Bindi Irwin, naturalist
Short-Sightedness
If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.
Henry Ford, industrialist
Simplicity
If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Socialism
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Speeches
A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Stupid
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams, author
Stupid
I try to avoid being stupid… The single most important thing is to know where you are competent and where you aren’t. The human mind tries to make you believe you are smarter than you are.
Charlie Munger, former vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Stupid
Life is tough. It’s even tougher when you’re stupid.
John Wayne, as Sergeant Stryker in Iwo Jima
Success
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Taxes
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Taxes
You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
Teamwork
Five guys working on the court together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come as individuals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend
Teamwork
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie, businessman
Teamwork
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others– or, in a word, partnership.
Paul Farmer, physician and Harvard professor
Teamwork
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman, co-founder, LinkedIn
Teamwork
Organizations’ results depend almost entirely on teams… humans have accomplished almost everything we’ve ever accomplished in our history in groups.
Thomas Malone, management consultant
Teamwork
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is bing carried out.
Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president
Teamwork
To be successful, you must get results. To be significant, you must help others get results.
Mack Story, author
Thinking Big
My mother used to say to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” I was a painter, and I became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso, painter
Timing
I think the record shows the advantage of a peculiar mindset– not seeking action for its own sake, but instead combining extreme patience with extreme decisiveness.
Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne, actor
Trust
What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that I can no longer believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
Truth
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca, auto executive
Vitality
Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.
Alan Cox, inventor
Willpower
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Clint Eastwood, actor
