Previous Motivational Monday Quotes

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“

— David Dweck

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

— Will Rogers

""You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to." -Good Will Hunting

— Robin Williams

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world." —Dead Poets Society

— Robin Williams

"I choose to be better than the obvious. I obviously choose to be better, day by day."

— Brent Smith

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

— Dolly Parton

“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.”

— Mia Hamm

“If you get tired, learn to rest not quit.”

— Banksy

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Opportunities don't happen, you create them.”

— Chris Grosser

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Theresa

“Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don't forget to lift someone up.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.”

— Wilbur D. Nesbit

“Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

— Mark Twain 

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.”

— Christine Caine 

"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

— Adele Brookman 

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."

— George Bernard Shaw 

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

— Gabby Douglas 

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

— Abraham Lincoln 

"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."

— Jane Goodall 

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

— Albert Einstein 

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

— Maya Angelou 

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

— Ian Maclaren 

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

— Oprah Winfrey 

"Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu 

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

— Alice Walker 

"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching."

— C.S. Lewis 

"There will never be a right time. Stop waiting and start doing."

— Mel Robbins 

"Always deliver more than expected."

— Larry Page 

"The more doors you open for other people, the more paths you create for yourself."

— Suzan Johnson Cook 

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

— Tom Hanks 

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."

— Malala Yousafzai 

"It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing."

— Gen. George S. Patton 

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt 

"There is no elevator to success, You have to take the stairs."

— Zig Ziglar 

"If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

— Maya Angelou 

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

— Henry Ford 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

— Lao Tzu 

"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.”

— Marie Curie 

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

— Albert Einstein 

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

— Frida Kahlo 

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

— Richard Feynman 

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

— Michael Larsen 

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

— Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa 

"Spread love everywhere you go."

— Mother Teresa 

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

— Aristotle 

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

— Babe Ruth 

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman 

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

— Ray Kroc 

“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”

— George Washington 

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”

— Patrick Lencioni 

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt 

“There is no substitute for work.”

— Vince Lombardi 

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison 

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone 

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky 

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”

— Martin Luther 

“Keep away from 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 

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”

— Cavett Robert 

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway 

“Hope itself is like a star – not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

“Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.”

— David Orr 

“Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”

— Richard Carlson 

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

— William Arthur Ward 

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

— G.K.Chesterton 

“Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee 

”The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs 

”Do one thing every day that scares you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt 

”We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill 

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

— Henry Ford 

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."

— Mesiter Eckhart 

"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

— Viktor E. Frankl  

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

— C.S. Lewis  

"A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye."

— Unknown  

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

— Chinese Proverb  

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

— Aristotle  

"A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong."

— Tecumseh  

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

— Rob Siltanen  

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower 

"Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused."

— Daniel Lubetzky 

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

— Oscar Wilde 

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. But though an old man, I am but a young gardener."

— Thomas Jefferson 

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

— Harry S. Truman

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

— Albert Einstein

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

— Babe Ruth

"You can't wait until life isn't hard any more before you decide to be happy."

— Jane Marczewski        

"I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

— Helen Keller       

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them."

— John F. Kennedy       

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

— Robert Louis Stevenson      

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

— Albert Pine   

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

— Winston Churchill  

"Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do."

— Brian Tracy  

"To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom."

— Rosa Parks  

"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."

— Harry Edwards  

"Success, even tiny incremental success, is the best motivational tool of all."

— Jeff Haden  

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

— Jim Elliot  

"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others."

— Cesar Chavez 

"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable."

— Mary Oliver 

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

— Stephen Leacock 

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

— John Steinbeck 

"A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man."

— Turkish Proverb 

"On matters of style, swim with the current; on matters of principle, stand like a rock."

— Thomas Jefferson 

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

— Aristotle 

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

— Barack Obama

"Don’t wait your turn. Bet on yourself and have the confidence to stand up and say, ‘my time is now.'"

— Robert F. Smith

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them any more."

— Michele Ruiz

"I think the more unexpected something is, the more there is to learn from it."

— Michael J. Fox

"Plant seeds every single day that you know who you are, you know what you’re about, and you know what goals you’ve set for yourself."

— Steph Curry

"Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience."

— Biggs Burke

"No act of kindness, however small, is wasted."

— Aesop

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

— Mark Twain

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."

— Mark Twain

"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows."

— Japanese Proverb

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

— Melody Beattie

"We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre."

— Andy Biersack

"If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you."

— Anand Mahindra

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure."

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”

― Denis Diderot

“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

― James E Faust

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience."

— Hyman Rickover

"The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded."

— Greg Anderson

"The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded."

— Scott Hamilton

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

— Jim Rohn

"I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it."

— Michael J. Fox

"Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past."

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

— Peter Drucker

"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it."

— Stephen Covey

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

— Mark Twain

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

— Albert Einstein

“If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.”

— John Wooden

"Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs."

— Russell Eric Dobda

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

— Roy T. Bennett

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

— Vince Lombardi

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

— Henry David Thoreau

"If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small."

— Richard Branson

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

— Nido Qubein

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

— Marie Forleo

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

— Martin Luther King

"Sometimes life is like this tunnel. You can’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you keep moving, you will come to a better place."

— Iroh, Avatar the Last Airbender

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

— Mickey Rooney

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

— John R. Wooden

“All I know is my life is better when I assume people are doing their best.”

— Brene Brown

“Life may give you a cactus, you don’t have to sit on it.”

— Joyce Meyer

“Don’t tell it like it is. Tell it like you want it to be.”

— Esther Hicks

“Hold the vision, not the circumstances.”

— Mary Morrissey

“Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.”

— Unknown

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

— Bruce Lee

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

— Truman Capote

“I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Frank Ocean

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

— Steve Martin

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

— Beverly Sills

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”

— Vince Lombardi

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

— George Addair

“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

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”

— Zig Ziglar

“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.”

— Nicole Kidman

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”

— Michael Altshuler

“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

— C.S. Lewis

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”

— Tricia Cunningham

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”

— John C. Maxwell

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”

— Serena Williams

“Human beings are the only species on earth that have the ability to be creative. It’s what makes us those that can solve problems, being able to not just react but to observe. Through creativity the answer will come. It’s what we have reason to be hopeful about and be grateful about right now: our capacity for creative thought.”

— John Mellencamp, Farm Aid 2019

“Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.”

— Brian Tracy

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”

— Dan Brown

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”

— Teddy Roosevelt

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

— Amelia Earhart

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

— Saint Francis

“There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.”

— Catherine Booth

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

— Will Rogers

“Failure is success in progress.”

— Albert Einstein

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

“Success is inevitable if you keep moving. The only thing that matters is that you keep going. The only way to truly fail at a marathon is to stop taking the next step.”

— Tim Grahl

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

— Eugene Ware

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

— Og Mandino

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

— Walt Disney 

“We've all learned that the foundation of success is the team.”

— George Karl 

“Use your head for more than a hatrack.”

— Frank Lessiter 

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

— Peter Drucker 

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

— Napoleon Hill

“I learned a very hard lesson that I’m sharing with you now. That important, impossible thing that you have nearly given up on ninety nine times? Finish it. Whether it’s a success or a failure, no one can take your The End prize away from you. Finishing is the most important thing there is. It’s proof of how hard you tried.”

— Sally Thorne

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“The beginning is always today.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.”

— Don Meyer

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

— Karen Lamb

“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base.”

— Frederick B. Wilcox

“Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.”

— Sun Tzu

“When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Obsessing over the customer experience is the only long-term defensible competitive advantage.”

— Jeff Bezos

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.”

— John Quincy Adams

“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents — start charging for it.”

— Kim Garst

“If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes — then learn how to do it later.”

— Richard Branson

“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.”

— Sir Claus Moser

“Leaders don’t motivate people by their knowledge of the future, but by their anticipation of what is possible.”

— Mel Lawrenz

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

— Les Brown

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”

— Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life

“I noticed that the dynamic range between what an average person could accomplish and what the best person could accomplish was 50 or 100 to 1 .... A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.”

— Steve Jobs

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”

— Proverb

“It’s not always that we need to do more, but rather that we need to focus on less.”

— Nathan W. Morris

“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”

— Latin Proverb

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”

— Albert Einstein

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

— Mark Twain

“Pressure is a privilege — it only comes to those who earn it.”

— Billie Jean King

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” 

— Steve Jobs

“Ideas without actions are worthless.” 

— Harvey Mackay

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” 

— H.G. Wells

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.” 

— Chinese Proverb

“Everyone is looking for instant success,  but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.” 

— Lou Holtz

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” 

— Shunryu Suzuki 

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

– General Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. 

“Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.”

— Pat Riley

“Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”

— Dan Reeves

“Once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.”

— Reggie Jackson

“No matter how good you are, it’s the team that makes the superstar.”

— Fran Tarkenton

“The real winners are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.”

— Barbara Pletcher

“Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.”

— Joseph Campbell

“The most important element in the character makeup is mental toughness.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Have a fierce resolve in everything you do. Demonstrate determination, resiliency and tenacity. Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better — not reasons to quit.”

— Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan Chase

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

    — Steve Prefontaine

“To be prepared is half the victory.”

    — Miguel Cervantes

“The achievements of an organization are the result of the combined effort of each individual.”

    — Vince Lombardi

“Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.”

    — Billie Jean King

“The best and hardest work is done in the spirit of adventure and challenge.”

    — William McKnight

“Fortune favors the brave.”

    — Unknown (Phrase dates back to ancient Rome) 

“Sit with winners; the conversations will be different.”

    — Unknown

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

    — Mark Twain

“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

    — Bill Clinton

“Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?”

— Jimmy Johnson

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

— William B. Sprague

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

“I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

— Babe Ruth

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

— Dale Carnegie

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

— William James

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . If you can wait and not be tired by waiting . . . If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim . . . If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it."

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— Rudyard Kipling

“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control, now."

— Denis Waitley

“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work."

— Ralph Marston

"Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together."

—Paul Ryan 

“Life is full of difficult times. But someone out there always has it worse than you do. If you fill your days with pity, sorrowful for the way you have been treated, bemoaning your lot in life, blaming your circumstances on someone or something else, then life will be long and hard. If, on the other hand, you refuse to give up on your dreams, stand tall and strong against the odds — then life will be what you make of it — and you can make it great. Never, ever, ring the bell!”

— Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy retired) and author of Make Your Bed

— Benjamin Franklin

— Alexander Graham Bell

"Be the hammer, not the nail."

— E. Joseph Cossman

— Benjamin Disraeli

— Carol Burnett

— Rainer Maria Rilke

— Calvin Coolidge

— Paul J. Meyer

— Steve Southerland

— John F. Kennedy

— Fred Rogers

— Winston Churchill

— Eric Clapton

— Vincent Van Gogh

— Joyce Meyer

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

— Gavin Newsom

— James Joyce

— Barbara De Angelis

— Hans Selye

— Aristotle

— James Whitcomb Riley

— Earl Nightingale

— Elon Musk

— Tony Robbins

— Regina Brett

— Yehuda Berg

— Henry Miller

— Tabatha Coffey

— Drew Gilpin Faust

— Anais Nin

— Time Tactics of Very Successful People

— Jessica Hatchigan

— Ralph W. Sockman

— Napoleon Hill

— Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

— George William Curtis

— Josh Turner

— Regina Brett

— Hug Prather

— Joe Jamail

— Jim Rohn

— Barbara Corcoran

— Joyce Meyer

— Hans Selye

— E.A. Bucchianeri

— Coach of China's 1984 gold-medal table-tennis squad

— Samuel Smiles

— Og Mandino

— Jim Rohn

— Mark Twain

— Thomas Carlyle

— Bryant H. McGill

— George Bernard Shaw

1. Be on time.
2. Share.
3. Have a strong work ethic.
4. Exert extra effort.
5. Be trustworthy.
6. Have a positive mental attitude.
7. Never complain or criticize.
8. Be prepared.
9. Show respect.
10. Listen.
11. Say "Thank you."
12. Learn new things.
13. Teach others what you know.
14. Be accountable.
15. Take responsibility.
16. Admit what you don't know.
17. Ask for help.
18. Work safely.
19. Be a team player.
20. Do your best.

— Mother Teresa

— Mario Andretti

— Neil Gaiman

— Theodore Roosevelt

— Jill Scott

— George S. Patton

— John Engler

— Rabindranath Tagore

— Michael P. Watson

— Roy T. Bennett

— Newt Gingrich

— Peter Marshall

— Robert Louis Stevenson

— Abigail Adams

— Ramana Maharshi

— Tony Robbins

— Marcus Aurelius

— Christopher McCandless

— C. JoyBell C.

— Helen Keller

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

— Benjamin Franklin

— W. Clement Stone

— Marie Curie

— C.S. Lewis

— Ernest Hemingway

— Harvey Mackay

— Stephen Covey

— C. JoyBell C.

— Vince Lombardi

— St. Jerome

— Joyce Meyer

— Pele

— John C. Maxwell

— Josh Billings

— Douglas Adams

— Gordon B. Hinckley

— Les Brown

— Thomas Fowell Buxton

— Allen Klein

— Peter Drucker

— Dr. Steve Maraboli

— Pope Paul VI

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

— John D. Rockefeller

— Winston Churchill

— Mark Twain

— Virat Kohli

— Sydney J. Harris

— Tim Fargo

— Sarah Dessen

— Ann Landers

— Denis Waitley

— Neil Gaiman

— Bertrand Russell

— Roger Staubach

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

— Norman Vincent Peale

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

— Confucius

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

— Les Brown

— Philip Sidney

— Kyle Chandler

— Paul Coffey

— William Butler Yeats

— John Ruskin

— Denis Diderot

— Ralph Marston

— Neil Strauss

— Indira Gandhi

— H. G. Wells

— Ayn Rand

— Kristin Armstrong

— Oscar Wilde

— Henry Drummond

— Earl Nightingale

— Sir Claus Moser

— Robert H. Schuller

— Og Mandino

— Jack Canfield

— John Wayne

— Chuck Palahniuk

— Booker T. Washington

— Mattie Stepanek

— William J. Bennett

— John Ruskin

— David Brinkley

— Sam Ewing

— Jim Rohn

— Colin Powell

— Kim Garst

— Ray Goforth

— Francis of Assisi

— Rebel Wilson

— Clint Eastwood

— Paul Molitor

— Sam Levenson

— Henry David Thoreau

— Charlotte Whitton

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

— Bobby Knight

— David Brinkley

— Sigmund Freud

— Victor Kiam

— Unknown

— Neale Donald Walsch

— Marvin Phillips

— Vince Lombardi

— C.S. Lewis

— Thomas A. Edison

— Steve Maraboli

— Nelson Mandela

— Shakti Gawain

— Lou Holtz

— Peter T. Mcintyre

— Lou Holtz

— Ken Venturi

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

— Winston Churchill

"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it."

— Norman Vincent Peale

— Joshua J. Marine

— Sigmund Freud

— Hellen Keller

—Thomas A. Edison

— Arthur Ashe

— Albert Einstein

— Peter Drucker

— H. G. Wells

— William James