Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. - Orison Swett Marden

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. - Alfred Adler

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. - George Eliot

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Rudyard Kipling

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. - William Hazlitt

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe

The greatest sign of success for a teacher, is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist. - Maria Montessori

The real moment of success is the moment not apparent to the crowd. - George Bernard Shaw

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. - William Somerset Maugham

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Jim Ryun

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.
- Dave Ramsey

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
- Charles M. Schwab

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
- Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

” A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.”
Grant Fairley — Submitted by Cari McKenzie — Ontario, Canada

From a Motivational Seminar in Toronto

June 21, 2004
” Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.”
Tom Landry

June 21, 2004
” Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie

June 16, 2004
” Never say never to your talents being birthed. Have twins, have triplets!”
Copyright © 2004 Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

June 16, 2004
” 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

“Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.” Polybius

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine

“Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.” D.A. Benton

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” Muhammad Ali

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” Andrew Carnegie

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.”
Bertrand Russell

“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” Icelandic Proverb

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.”From Disiderata

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”
James Allen

“It’s not the work that’s hard, it’s the discipline.”Anonymous

“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension ard discipline are taken out of your life.”Dr. James G. Bilkey

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made.That is,they started with nothing but ambition and energy,the same way most of us start.

Make a decision to be succesful right now.Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose.Guard yours with care.

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Those who start with too litte money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much.Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it’s all of us.
David Bach - Rich - Learning - Finance - Money

It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it’s a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.
Erica Baxter - Change - Money - Career

Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet.
Sarah Beeny - Real Estate - Energy - Environmental - Money

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.
Sarah Beeny - Money - Decisions - Earnings - Relationships - Career

It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke. (Blixseth’s definition of success)
Tim Blixseth - Success - Ideas - Money - Death - Life - Wealth

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
 ~inspirational sayings about Hope quotes by Vincent McNabb

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
 ~hope quotes by H.A. Overstreet

We grow great by dreams … Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true
 ~famous quotes about Dreams by Woodrow Wilson

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
 ~hope sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
 ~hope quotes by Author Unknown

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
 ~inspirational sayings about Death quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
 ~hope quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

# If I were to retire, I would keep my family’s interest in the company the same and say, Don’t sell.
Sheldon Adelson # Bank, Company, Smart, Advice, Business Quotes

# I was sitting with the Prime Minister, and he was making reference to the Mice market. I said: ‘Is that the little things that go across the closet and squeak?
Sheldon Adelson # Business, Attention Quotes
# I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
Sheldon Adelson # Changes, Information, Questions, Learning, Business Quotes
# Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
Karl Albrecht # Ideas, Deals, Business Quotes
# No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.
Robert G Allen # Improvement, Smart, Business, Education, Products, Customer Quotes
# If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.
Anil Ambani # Company, Technology, Oil, Limiting, Business Quotes