Action is the real measure of intelligence.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures.

When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Author Unknown

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-Peter T. Mcintyre

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

-Donald H. McGannon

 
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

-Gene Mauch

 
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

-Elaine Agather

 
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

 
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

-Albert Schweitzer

 
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

-Robert Jarvik

A leader is a dealer in hope.

-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

 
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.

-Tom Peters

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

-Diane Feinstein

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

- Josh Billings

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

- Malcolm Forbes

A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.

- Mario Puzo

-Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

-Unknown

A true friend is someone who knows there’s something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face.

-Unknown

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

-Arnold H. Glasgow

-Fran Lebowitz

Show me an actress who isn’t a personality
and I’ll show you a woman who isn’t a star.

-Kathryn Hepburn

The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

-Maxwell Maltz

To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.

-George Ross

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn`t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
- Sir Claus Moser

-Benjamin Disraeli

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

-Jim Rohn

If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

-William Feather

If you put off everything until you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.

-Norman Vincent Peale

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

-Unknown

All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.

-Alexander Dumas

Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.

-Unknown

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

-Norman Vincent Peale

A leader is a dealer in hope.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
- J. O. De La Mettrie

Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
- Cher

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
- Earl of Derby

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
- Alexander von Humboldt

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
- Joan Welsh