September post

September9/1"Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably tosuccess." - Harry Fosdick

9/2"Peak performance in life isn't about succeeding all the time or even being happyall the time. It's often about compensating, adjusting, and doing the best you canwith what you have right now." - Ken Ravizza

9/3"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself onfire." - Reggie Leach

9/4"It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. Iwas determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets." -Wilma Rudolph

9/5"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time wefall." - Nelson Mandela

9/6"A strong successful man is not the victim of his environment. He createsfavorable conditions." - Orisen Marden

9/7"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford

9/8"Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them." - Peter Reese

9/9"Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so thatsomeone will ask me, 'What's the secret of it?' I shall say simply this: 'I get upwhen I fall down.'" - Paul Harvey

9/10"Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity andseizing it when it comes." - Alice Foote MacDougall

9/11"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why notme? Why not now?" - Jimmy Dean

9/12"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always dothat, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - MarkTwain

9/13"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." - Winston Churchill

9/14"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor,has known the magic that lies in these words: Every adversity has the seed of anequivalent or greater benefit." - W. Clement Stone

9/15"Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

9/16"Our power is in our ability to decide." - Buckminster Fuller

9/17"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties." - SamuelJohnson

9/18"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success." - Zig Ziglar

9/19"Make your life a mission - not an intermission." - Arnold Glasgow

9/20"Do it trembling if you must, but do it!" - Emmet Fox

9/21"Consider the postage stamp. It secures success through its ability to stick to onething until it gets there." - Josh Billings

9/22"It takes twenty years to become an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

9/23"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get." - ScottAlexander

9/24"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, hispower for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." -James Allen

9/25"The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thingmakes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

9/26"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin

9/27"Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality." - L.J.Cardina Suenens

9/28"They can because they think they can." - Virgil

9/29"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." - Tobias Wolff

9/30"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

JANUARY QUOTES

THE GREATEST MAN THAT HAS EVER LIVED

January1/1"Anything in life worth having is worth working for." - Andrew Carnegie

1/2"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences." - Jawaharlal Nehru

1/3"Success is never ending, failure is never final." - Dr. Robert Schuller

1/4"I just love when people say I can’t do something because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it." - Ted Turner

1/5"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." - Emily P. Bissell

1/6"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

1/7"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float withit." - John Crowe

1/8"You will never find time for anything. You must make it." - Charles Buxton

1/9"Remove failure as an option." - Joan Lunden

1/10"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps." - Peter A. Cohen

1/11"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." - LesBrown

1/12"Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off.But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel andbuild one for yourself and for those who will follow after you." - Amelia Earhart

1/13"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." - Mark Twain

1/14"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill

1/15"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell

1/16"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

1/17"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - SamuelJohnson

1/18"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi

1/19"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -Alan Ashley-Pitt

1/20"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett

1/21"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali

1/22"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this momen tonwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed." - Eileen Caddy

1/23"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer." - Nolan Bushnell

1/24"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!" - Paul J. Meyer

1/25"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great." - Mark Twain

1/26"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work,patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service." - John Burroughs

1/27"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it." - Bunker Hunt

1/28"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

1/29"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through." - F.W. Nichol

1/30"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'" - Brian Tracy

1/31"If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them." - Yogi Berra

FEBRUARY QUOTES

MARIE CURIE

February2/1"Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude." - W. Clement Stone

2/2"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters

2/3"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." -Samuel Johnson

2/4"We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2/5"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is thevengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'" - Blackhawk

2/6"Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine." - Napoleon Hill

2/7"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, onthe other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have orwould have done, or what they can't do." - Dennis Waitley

2/8"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish foryourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

2/9"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty heartscan do that." - Norman Vincent Peale

2/10"One man with courage is a majority." - Andrew Jackson

2/11"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail onceand it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people canhandle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing toconsider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." - JosephSugarman

2/12"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began tobelieve in me.'" - Robert Schuller

2/13"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - George Patton

2/14"One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything." - Scott Reed

2/15"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people canget what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -Stephen Covey

2/16"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." - Albert Schweitzer

2/17"Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli

2/18"Teamwork is the long word for success." - Jacquelinemae A. Rudd

2/19"Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive." - Lori Hard

2/20"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." - Booker T. Washington

2/21"In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time."- Anthony J. D'Angelo

2/22"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there." - Marcus Washling

2/23"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!" - Jim Ryun

2/24"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles theworld." - Albert Einstein

2/25"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot

2/26"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." - Charles F. Kettering

2/27"People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success." - PeteZafra

2/28"No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement." - Greg Henry Quinn

MARCH QUOTES

THE FACE OF LIVING SERVICE
MOTHER THERESA

March3/1"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win." - Shelley Long

3/2"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda

3/3"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille

3/4"One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'" - Margaret Thatcher

3/5"It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny." -Anthony Robbins

3/6"Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be halfwon when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that youdo. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will becomeindispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all therewards you receive." - Og Mandino

3/7"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves." - Marie Curie

3/8"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley

3/9"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems." - Stephen Covey

3/10"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn'tparticularly feel like it." - Alistair Cooke

3/11"Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and whento remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased." -Ralph C. Smedley

3/12"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D.Rockefeller

3/13"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotionto the things you want to see happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

3/14"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was onceeccentric." - Bertrand Russell

3/15"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman

3/16"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose byeither commendation or condemnation." - Napoleon Hill

3/17"Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control." -Booker T. Washington

3/18"Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire,for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit." - Plato

3/19"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all startwith all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible." - Henry Ford

3/20"I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to bewhat I want to be." - Muhammad Ali

3/21"The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what onebecomes by it." - John Ruskin

3/22"I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men andwomen who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, witheverything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S.Truman

3/23"The seat of freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and inthat work, does what he wants to do." - George Robin Collingwood

3/24"Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, and expectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence, and determination. If you are going to be a success in life, it is up to you... it is your responsibility." - Will Horton

3/25"The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think." -Dean Francis

3/26"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - LesBrown

3/27"What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help." - Donald Keough

3/28"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett

3/29"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson

3/30"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland

3/31"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande

APRIL QUOTES

POPE JOHN PAUL II THE GREATEST POPE THATS

EVER LIVED

April4/1"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." - AlBernstein

4/2"You can do it if you believe you can." - Napoleon Hill

4/3"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

4/4"I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." -George Bernard Shaw

4/5"You must do the very thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

4/6"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality thatmost frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie

4/7"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M. Bristol

4/8"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little." - Thomas Merton

4/9"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight,and see the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde

4/10"Don't dream it. Be it!" - Richard O'brian

4/11"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." -Bessie Anderson Stanley

4/12"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, theanswer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."- Nora Roberts

4/13"Henry Ford could get anything out of men because he just talked and would tellthem stories. He'd never say, 'I want this done!' He'd say, 'I wonder if we can doit.'" - George Brown

4/14"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those whodream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe

4/15"The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making themcome true." - James Allen

4/16"Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face willeither defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them." - RickWarren

4/17"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - OrisonSwett Marden

4/18"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn

4/19"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce moreleaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader

4/20"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully andimaginatively for its hidden assets." - Michael Korda

4/21"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work."- Booker T. Washington

4/22"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitudetoward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change ratherthan allowing it to master you." - Brian Tracy

4/23"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hardat it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there isno getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't you won't." - Bruce Jenner

4/24"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of theaverage man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top." - J.C. Penny

4/25"Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition hehas encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggleagainst overwhelming odds." - Charles Lindbergh

4/26"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, youhave achieved half your failure." - David Ambrose

4/27"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills

4/28"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, youwill never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn

4/29"Your success and happiness lie in you." - Helen Keller

4/30"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. Theyvary in their desires to reach their potential." - John

MAY QUOTES

THE GREAT ALBERT EINSTEIN
May5/1"The only difference between a success and a failure is that the successfulperson is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do." - J.R. Ridinger

5/2"The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away smallstones." - Chinese Proverb

5/3"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." - Vincent Lombardi

5/4"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein

5/5"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, thereis always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficultiesarising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course ofaction and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldierneeds. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

5/6"Successful leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing thesame ideas as everyone else and seeing something different." - Reed Markham

5/7"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Anthony Robbins

5/8"Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success andachievements want to make you proud." - Bishop Leonard Umunna

5/9"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a differentway." - Dale Carnegie

5/10"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution pavesthe way to a solution." - Dr. David Schwartz

5/11"All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their futurecould be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward theirdistant vision, that goal or purpose." - Brian Tracy

5/12"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." - BenjaminDisraeli

5/13"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond." - MarcelProust

5/14"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required ofhim; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required thatdetermines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

5/15"I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody." - AndrewJackson

5/16"You don't become enormously successful without encountering some reallyinteresting problems." - Mark Victor Hansen

5/17"I've always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up." -Beverly Sills

5/18"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and tolet him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington

5/19"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." - Babe Ruth

5/20"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that youmeet it with the best you have to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt

5/21"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell

5/22"Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for themoments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not adestination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey." - JenniferJames

5/23"I praise loudly; I blame softly." - Queen Catherine II

5/24"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for arecommonly the most valuable." - Francis Bacon

5/25"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others tosucceed." - Napoleon Hill

5/26"You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life." - John Addison

5/27"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow iswherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else'sfootsteps." - Eileen Caddy

5/28"Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom." - George Patton

5/29"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5/30"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge." - Henry CharlesBukowski

5/31"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." - Publilius Syrus

JUNE QUOTES

JULIUS NYERERE

June6/1"The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end." - Genghis Khan

6/2"To move the world we must first move ourselves." - Socrates

6/3"Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly." -Cecil B. De Mille

6/4"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much hecan give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound tosucceed." - Henry Ford

6/5"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you willbe." - Harvey Mackay

6/6"Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notableachievements." - Walt Disney

6/7"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts." - SylvesterStallone

6/8"When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shotthinking of what you must do right." - Tony Alfonso

6/9"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations inadvance of the event." - Brian Tracy

6/10"A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you havemade happy." - Robert J. Lumsden

6/11"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith inthemselves." - Swami Vivekananda

6/12"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there." - WilliamBlake

6/13"Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personalgoals." - Paul J. Meyer

6/14"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully

6/15"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached inlife as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - BookerT. Washington

6/16"The secret of success is consistency of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli

6/17"It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer." - AlbertEinstein

6/18"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." -Aristotle

6/19"Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required." - SirWinston Churchill

6/20"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Anthony Robbins

6/21"Live out of your imagination, not your history." - Stephen Covey

6/22"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell

6/23"Forget yourself and start to work." - Gordon B. Hinckley

6/24"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."- Zig Ziglar

6/25"Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important thanany other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

6/26"One must have strategies to execute dreams." - Azim Premji

6/27"Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much ofourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when wework for others, our efforts return to bless us." - Sidney Powell

6/28"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

6/29"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charms brutes.Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories withoutit." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

6/30"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solveother problems." - Rene Descartes