Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Anthony Robbins
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
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
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Geoffrey Gaberino
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Bishop Steere
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier
Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. "Breaking rocks," the first replied. "Earning my living," the second said. "Helping to build a cathedral," said the third.
Peter Schultz
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
Spencer Silver
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
Ron Blomberg
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Jean Paul Getty
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.
Patrick Moore
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
God helps them that help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
Rudyard Kipling
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William A. Ward
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
Hold fast to dreams, for without them we are like birds with broken wings.
Chinese Proverb
Small dreams have no power to move the heart of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.
Mark Victor Hansen
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.
Eddie Arcaro
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
James Cook
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
Samuel Insull
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Dawson Trotman
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene Ware
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Foka Gomez
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
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