Uplifting Quotes

Ability

"Just do what you do best."

Red Auerbach

"Big jobs ususally go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

Desiderius Erasmus

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Malcolm S. Forbes

"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

James A. Froude

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Edward Gibbon

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There is something tht is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Robert Half

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."

Grace Moore

"Ability is sexless."

Christabel Pankhurst

"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."

John Henry Newman

"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."

Laurence J. Peter

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

John Ruskin

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"They are able because they think they are able."

Virgil

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Booker T. Washington

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

Stevie Wonder

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

Zig Ziglar

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

John Ruskin

Attitude

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Henry Ford

"If you can't afford to do something right, then make darn sure you can afford to do it wrong."

Charlie Nelson

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

David J. Schwartz

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

Thomas Robert Dewar

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us."

Earl Nightingale

"Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions."

Eric Butterworth

"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Gilbert K Chesterton

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

Hans Selye

"Your attitude determines your altitude."

Unknown

"You create your own universe as you go along."

Winston Churchill

"Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea."

Richard Saunders

"Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with."

W. C. Fields

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Amy Tan

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others."

Gerald G. Jampolsky

"Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on."

Tom Hobson

"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

Henri L. Bergson

Awareness

"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician. After you know what to look for you see things that you did not notice when you did not know exactly what to look for."

Orville Wright

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

Benjamin Franklin

"A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for."

Admiral Grace Hopper

"When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven."

Barbra Streisand

"Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror."

Gregory "Pappy" Boyington

"Ethos anthropos daimon. (Character is fate.)"

Heraclitus

"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."

Josh Billings

"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend."

Jeremy Taylor

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."

Lauren Bacall

"There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going."

Mark Caine

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Nathanial Branden

"You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go."

Percy H. Johnson

"Our lives teach us who we are."

Salman Rushdie

"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves, but the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

Thomas Szasz

"Flexible is much too rigid, in aviation you have to be fluid."

Verne Jobst

"I accept reality and dare not question it."

Walt Whitman

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman

"Flying is done largely with the imagination."

Wolfgang Langewiesche

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed."

Irene Porter

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

Yogi Berra

Change

"Your goals are moving targets."

Chris Waugh

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

C. M. Ward

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

Karen Kaiser Clark

"Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change."

Frank Popoff

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

Denis Waitley

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

George Bernard Shaw

"When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."

Henry David Thoreau

"Half my life is an act of revision."

John Irving

"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time."

Leo Buscaglia

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

Peter F. Drucker

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control."

Unknown

"The only people who like change are wet babies."

Unknown

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Winston Churchill

"The key to why things change is the key to everything."

James E. Burke

"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."

Kurt Lewin

"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is uncangeable or certain."

John F. Kennedy

"Things do not change, we do."

Henry David Thoreau

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Albert Einstein

"Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman."

Carey Williams

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."

Bret Harte

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Edward De Bono

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Otto Rank

Commitment

"A winner makes a commitment. A loser makes promises."

Unknown

"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."

Faye Wattleton

"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."

Les Brown

"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible."

Bob Hoover

"There's no abiding success without commitment."

Anthony Robbins

"Reality forms around a commitment."

Unknown

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Douglas Adams

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

Napoleon Hill

"Never change a winning game; always change a losing one."

Bill Tilden

"Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

Golda Meir

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

Vince Lombardi

"The uncommitted life isn't worth living."

Marshall Fishwick

"There's always a way - if you're committed."

Anthony Robbins

"A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance."

Tom Flores

" Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom."

William A. Ward

"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal

"Action makes more fortune than caution."

Luc De Clapiers

"If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you."

Lanes Company

Communication

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

Ann Landers

"Half wits talk much, but say little."

Benjamin Franklin

"We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

Dale Carnegie

"If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour."

Dianna Booher

"Be sincere, be brief; be seated."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."

Gilbert K Chesterton

"It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause."

Jack Benny

"I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words."

Josh Billings

"It's good to shut up sometimes."

Marcel Marceau

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."

Mark Twain

"I didn't say the things I said."

Yogi Berra

"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."

Mark Victor Hansen

"A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it."

Unknown

"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."

Unknown

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

Marcel Proust

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

William Butler Yeats

"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."

Oscar Wilde

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

Sir Matthew Hale

"Bore - a person who talks when you wish him to listen."

Ambrose Bierce

"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."

Thomas Carlyle

"The best thing about animals is they don't talk much."

Thornton Wilder

"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much."

Germain G. Glien

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

Wilson Mizner

"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much."

John Wayne

"The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment."

Publilius Syrus

Daring

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca

"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."

Alvin Toffler

"Your launch begins with a single step. Are you ready?"

Chris Waugh

"We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring."

David Grayson

"All serious daring starts from within."

Joan Baez

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"Dream big and dare to fail."

Norman D. Vaughan

"Don't always wait for the perfect time; good timing will usually suffice."

Chris Waugh

"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."

Anita Roddick

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."

Publilius Syrus

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

Robert F. Kennedy

"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire."

T. Boone Pickens

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."

Unknown

"Fortune sides with him who dares."

Virgil

"No one reaches a high position without daring."

Publilius Syrus

"All glory comes from daring to begin."

Eugene F. Ware

Focus

"We go where our vision is."

Joseph Edward Murphy

"Don't ever let an airplane take you someplace where your brain hasn't arrived at least a couple of minutes earlier."

Andy Anderson

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The successful man is the average man, focused."

Unknown

"To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow"

Erik Nupponen

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

George Bernard Shaw

"...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

Greg Anderson

"Vision is the art of seeing thing invisible."

Jonathan Swift

"Keep looking around. There is always something you missed"

Unknown

"You cannot depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

"He is the most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard."

Publilius Syrus

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

Greg Anderson

"The first rule of focus is 'Wherever you are be there.'"

Unknown

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

Wilferd A. Peterson

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

Andy Warhol

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."

Colin Wilson

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Growth

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."

Alfred North Whitehead

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Charles Darwin

"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

Michael Eisner

"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies."

Robert F. Kennedy

"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."

James E. Burke

"The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical."

Julius Erving

"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep you foot on first."

Frederick Wilcox

"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

George Shinn

"Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree."

Irving Batcheller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Henry Miller

"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."

John Roger

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

Mary Lou Cook

"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?"

Ray Kroc

Heading

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Chinese Proverb

"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight."

Anita DeFrantz

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures."

Charles C. Noble

"I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal."

Curtis Carlson

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see farther than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

E. L. Doctorow

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

Diana Scharf Hunt

"Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion."

Dorothea Brande

"It is a good thing to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

Ernest Hemingway

"To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer."

George Bernard Shaw

"Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect."

John Fuqua

"You get what you set out to do."

John Hanson

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter."

Lewis Carroll

"Who walks fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way."

Matthew Prior

"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it."

Michael Friedsam

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action."

Michael Hanson

"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

Seneca

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

Thomas Carlyle

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Yogi Berra

Knowledge

"It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble. It's the things you know that just ain't so."

Artimus Ward

"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters."

Jean-Paul Kauffmann

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."

Peter F. Drucker

"Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal."

Unknown

"Takeoff's are optional. Landings are mandatory."

Unknown

"What is chiefly need is skill rather than machinery."

Wilbur Wright

"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."

Claude Bernard

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

Publilius Syrus

"The pilot who teaches himself has a fool for a student."

Robert Livingston

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

Unknown

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

W. Somerset Maugham

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best things in life aren't things."

Art Buchwald

Leadership

"The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

Henry Ford

"If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business."

B. C. Forbes

"Get the best people and train them well."

Charles Merrill

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Men who do things without being told draw the most wages."

Edwin H. Stuart

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

Walter Gilbey

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

Henry Kissinger

"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."

James Humes

"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."

Thomas J. Peters

"It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them."

Lou Holtz

"The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living."

Owen D. Young

"In business for yourself, not by yourself."

Ray Kroc

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Theodore M. Hesburgh

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."

Thomas J. Peters

"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

"Education is the mother of leadership."

Wendell L. Willkie

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

William Wrigley, Jr.

"The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people: their motivation and direction."

Ken Gilbert

"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."

Vince Lombardi

"Your leadership isn't so much your grand plan as it is your briefest daily interactions."

Chris Waugh

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

William James

Learning

"The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn."

Alvin Toffler

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

Bertrand Russell

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."

Charles Steinmetz

"Everyone you meet, and every situation you encounter, has something to teach you. Pay attention!"

Chris Waugh

"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck."

Unknown

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

David Hare

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

Decouvertes

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

Mark Twain

"Often the search proves more profitable than the goal."

E. L. Konigsburg

"Who questions much, shall lean much, and retain much."

Francis Bacon

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

Freiedrich Nietzsche

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"

George Bernard Shaw

"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."

Unknown

"No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious."

George Bernard Shaw

"A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will."

Spanish Proverb

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

Joseph Joubert

"The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own."

Leo Stein

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

Naguib Mahfouz

"Learning should be fun. If you don't have fun in aviation then you don't learn, and when learning stops, you die."

Pete Campbell

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

Ralph Gerard

"In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice."

Tony Alesandra

"Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life."

Unknown

"The foolish and the dead never change their opinions."

James Russell Lowell

"Wisdom is the reward you get fore a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk."

Doug Larson

"Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself."

Bob Grinde

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

Cesare Pavese

Limitations

"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have."

Basil S. Walsh

"Reconsider all your limitations as if they were self-imposed. Many of them are!"

Chris Waugh

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

Konrad Adenauer

"Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency."

Abraham Lincoln

"One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."

Albert Einstein

"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you'll see further."

Latvian Proverb

"If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint... and that voice will be silenced."

Vincent Van Gogh

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Count Leo Tolstoy

"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."

J. Paul Getty

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

Mark Twain

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Mary Kay Ash

"If something can stop you, you might as well let it."

Sidney Sheldon

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

T. S. Eliot

"You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren."

William Henry Hudson

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Brendan Francis

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Pablo Picasso

Momentum

"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort."

Charles J. Givens

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Jim Ryun

"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."

Graffiti

"If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill."

Joan Welsh

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

Joel A. Baker

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

Michael Korda

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups."

Peter Davies

"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown

"Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee."

William Kershner

"The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change."

Eng's Principle

"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."

Stephen R. Covey

"It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me."

Yoshihisa Tabuchi

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Benjamin Franklin

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister

"Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery."

Doug Horton

"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

Norman Vincent Peale

"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it."

William Frederick Book

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence."

Sloan Wilson

"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

John Wooden

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Sally Berger

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Friedrich Engels

Motivation

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

Zig Ziglar

"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Notice what you like to do for fun; you'll get insight that will help drive your career choices."

Chris Waugh

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."

Sir Edmund Hillary

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Lou Holtz

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations."

Kenneth Hildebrand

"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."

Fran Tarkenton

"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."

Walter Savage Landor

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Donald Trump

"Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power."

Paul G. Thomas

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

Harriet Braiker

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

Charles Baudelaire

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."

George Eliot

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

Wayne Dyer

"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed."

John Gray

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

Les Brown

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Ella Fitzgerald

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas A. Edison

"The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation."

Comer Cotrell

"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."

Nolan Bushnell

"Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration."

Jim Rohn

"Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?"

Earl Nightingale

"To succeed...you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."

Tony Dorsett

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

William Faulkner

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Maya Angelou

"All human activity is prompted by desire."

Bertrand Russell

Opportunity

"The trick with opportunities is to identify them quickly, be prepared to take advantage of them, and be confident enough to alter your course to do so. Be Aware, Prepare, Dare."

Chris Waugh

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning."

Dennis the Menace

"Opportunity is lost by deliberation."

Publilius Syrus

"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."

Thomas A. Edison

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."

Brian Tracy

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

Thomas A. Edison

"The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work."

Arthur Brisbane

"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity."

Arthur H. Vandenberg

"You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

Charles Buxton

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Francis Bacon

"There's no security on this earth, only opportunity."

Douglas Macarthur

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations."

Jean Paul Richter

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

John Burroughs

"Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer."

Josh Billings

"Some say opportunity knocks only once. That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it."

Louis L'Amour

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

Napoleon Hill

"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"

Robert Collier

Other Pilots

"I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that."

Paul McCartney

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

Zig Ziglar

"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."

Alexandria Penney

"The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships."

Anthony Robbins

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead."

Bill Mcglashen

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"

George Eliot

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

Doug Floyd

"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him."

Dr. Henker

"The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown."

Jewish Proverb

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."

Joseph Joubert

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Unknown

"The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else."

Preston Bradley

"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."

Les Giblin

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."

Publilius Syrus

"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."

Wayne Dyer

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

Woodrow T. Wilson

"Nobody ever goes to bed at night feeling over-appreciated."

Chris Waugh

"Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas."

Estill I. Green

Perspective

"If you think you're stressed out, you are. Be careful what you think."

Chris Waugh

"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."

Abraham Maslow

"Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity."

Alberta Flanders

"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective."

Denis Waitley

"The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective."

Al Neuharth

"Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst."

Charles A. Garfield

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?"

Unknown

"Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides."

Thomas Crum

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Albert Einstein

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."

Nelson Boswell

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."

Marshall McIuhan