" A destined soul sits --- mine runs." - Matt Catinella

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.” - Robert Frost 

" A good leader is like a ladder that gives his followers an opportunity to reach a higher level of success." - Jose B. Cabajar

“A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.” – Anon

" A pacesetter is never out of place; he sets the standard from which criteria of selection for others will be established. Be a pacesetter! Dare taking the risk!" - Leussa Adrienne

" A window offers a view of opportunity. Open your window by using your ideas. Life is a Journey; take time to enjoy the view." - Chandra Kroll

" Action is the key to success. Procrastination will tempt, fun and games will call, and people will interrupt, but the secret of achievement is to FOCUS. Isolate what you want to do, get started, and DO IT WELL." ~ Author Unknown

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

- Charles Kingsley

" As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious." - Albert Schweitzer

" Balance between mind and body is what allows us to achieve the most in lives. Never lose the balance and you will always hold the focus needed to achieve your toughest goals." - Samuel K. Aidoo

 “Be an all-out, not a hold-out." – Unknown

" Be ready for opportunities, because they will come up." - Author Unknown

"By being active, we are doubling our efficiency. By being inactive, we are hiding our efficiency. But remember, we have efficiency (only hiding it)." - Author Unknown

" Celebrate your failures. Failures teach you to succeed in life. One failure opens the door for hundreds of successes." - Author Unknown

"Change starts when someone sees the next step." - William Drayton

“Compassion is the basis of all morality.” - Arthur Schopenhauer 

“Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.” - Anonymous

" Desire, dedication and determination is the only formula of success." - Ranjeet Mehta

" Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek." ~ Mario Andretti

"D-determination
R-realization
E-excitement
A-action
M-mission
S-success"
- Zeus Villafuerte

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” - Walt Disney 

“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.” - Anon 

“Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.” - Emamanuel 

" Don't look up to champions, be one." - Jesse Poulton

" Don't strive for what you were, strive for what you want to become." - S. J.

" Dream it, think it, visualize it, make it real." - Oliver dela Cuesta

" Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." ~ Anais Nin

“Each day comes bearing it’s own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” - Ruth Ann Schabacker 

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” - Anais Nin

"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life." ~ Tennessee Williams

“Envy is an insult to oneself.” - Yevgeny Tevtushhenko 

“Every job has drudgery…the first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.”  ~ M.C. McIntosh

" Everyone can look at the stars; it takes a champion to climb a mountain to get one."
- Author Unknown

" Everything is possible; it's just that the impossible things take a little longer to figure out!" ~ Author Unknown

" Excellence Inspires, Experience it!" - Vashi Chandiramani

" Expect victory and you make victory." - Preston Bradley

" Failure is the messenger of success." - Author Unknown

“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.” -Robert J. Havighurst 

”Fear less, hope more;

eat less, chew more;

whine less, say more;

love more,

and all good things will be yours.”

-          Swedish Proverb

" Feel free to tell yourself that you are the greatest of all. It's not being cocky; it's being your own motivator. No one in the entire world will audition to play that role except for you." ~ Author Unknown

"For man is in control of his own destiny, have faith of what you can do, for it only boils down to the level of your desire to achieve your dreams." - Erwin S. Eusebio

“Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.” - G. Weatherly

 " Give out your best in everything you do, for it will echo back the same to you."
-  Jibson Bivera

" Great things are accomplished with good planning and not quite enough time."
- Author Unknown

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” - Storm Jameson

“Happiness hates the timid!” - Eugene O’Neill

“Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!” – J.C. F. Von Schiller

" Have courage when times may fail. Be not afraid to make a change. Take a chance on the inevitable. Make a difference in everything you do. Be the person who you were meant to be. Success is not born; it is made by those who seek to see the difference in everything, turning the impossible into a possible success." - Leon William 

“He who doesn’t accept the conditions of life sells his soul.” - Charles Baudelaire

“He who would be happy should stay at home.” - Greek proverb

Here's the difference between a Champion and Others:

" A champion, when he fell, always got back up and tried even harder. He slowed down over the speed bumps and hit a pothole now and then, but each time, he kept going. He didn't care how bad it hurt or hard he had to try. Others, on the other hand, when they fell, stayed there. Maybe tried to get up and kept falling and didn't try to get up anymore. Stopped at the speed bumps and fell into the potholes. Quit when he hurt and was tired. If you want to be a champion, try and try again. Never let your hopes slip out of your hands." -  Jessy Oho

" Heroes run to danger." - Michael Castellano

“How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.” - William James 

" I am in control of my own destiny." - Author Unknown

" 'I can't'… takes you off the hook - it simply can't be done. Replace 'I can't' with 'I don't currently know any other way' and watch the doors of possibility open up!!"

-  Steve Simons

" I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

"I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed,

but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort."

~ Elizabeth T. King

" I never let the grass grow under my feet because I don't keep the same position. When there's a chance, I don't take it but when there's an opportunity, I take it." - Mxolisi Xulu

" I sit in this world watching, listening and learning. All this hell that surrounds me will not bring me down. I am too strong, I love life too much to forget what is possible to attain, if you work hard and never give up." - Shane Fredrick

" I want to be remembered, not by fortune but by fame. I don't want the world to view me as a man with money, I want the world to view me as a man with a purpose and that purpose is to be remembered." ~  Kenny Walden

" I will not accept fear, weakness, or failure. The only defeat I will accept is a matter in which is out of my hands. Therefore I will reach out my hands and change it." - Tyler Barr

"If every man's internal care

Were written on his brow,

How many would our pity share

Who raise our envy now?"

- Pietro Metastasio

" If I think I can do it, I know I can. If I know I can, then I will." - Author Unknown

" If someone thinks they have all the answers, it just means that they haven't been asked all the questions." - Author Unknown

" If things don't happen by your wish, make them happen by your will." - Nagesh Jadhav

“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” - A. Edward Newton 

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” - Katherine Hepburn 

“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.” - Erma Bombeck 

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." ~ Robert Quillen

" If you don't work hard on your game, you're the one who loses." -  Steve Gladfelter

" If you encounter difficulty, don't change your decision to go, change your direction to get there." - Coach Geisler

"If you find a road with no obstacles, you'll probably find it doesn't lead anywhere."

" If you have tried as hard as you can and tell me that you have given 110% effort, I think that you have never given more than 90% in the past. If you try as hard as you can and tell me you have given 90% effort, I think you understand what it takes to be great."
- Jay W. VanWassenhoven

" If you say you can't you never will, but if you say you can, at some point in time you will." -  Robbie S

" If you think you've done it, then your wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could." - Brendan Manning

" If your mind is open, you will never face closed doors." - Larissa Belcher

"If your ship hasn't come in yet, swim out to it!"

" If you're not a step ahead, are you sure you're not a step behind?" - Kirk Schafer

“In order to achieve our dearest dream, we should never father the idea of failure or even second guess ourselves. As soon as we let our insecurities get the best of us and decide to settle for anything less than our dearest dream, all it will ever be is simply a dream."
- Mariusz Mazurek

" In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY." - Satish Kumar

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

" It is good to start doing things that you want to do, but then its better to start doing things that you were meant to do." - Author Unknown

" It is not only "the slow but steady wins the race", but the slow, steady, and staying on course wins the race." - Colleen Spiegel

" It is not so important to be better than others, but rather to focus on being better yourself." - Ron Skalski

" It's not what you do that defines you. What defines you is how well you rise after you have fallen." - Author Unknown

“Just because you want me to give up, doesn't mean I will." - Traci Connelly

" Keymakers: Some people see a closed door and turn away. Others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't work they turn away. Still others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If the key doesn't fit, they turn away. A rare few see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If it doesn't fit, they make one." - Author Unknown

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." - Jim Rohn

“Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing.” - Jerome K. Jerome 

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ~ Irving Berlin

"Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back;

if you smile it returns the greeting." ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

" Life is like a book with many different chapters, some tell of tragedy and others of triumph. Some chapter are dull and ordinary, others intense and exciting. The key to being a success in life is to never stop on a difficult page, to never quit on a tough chapter. Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because the know a better chapter lies ahead." - Author Unknown

" Life is like surfing. Sometimes we all get tied up on looking and waiting for that perfect wave to come along. While doing this, we forget that surfing is not about finding that awesome wave, it's about enjoying the moment, loving what you're doing, going with the flow and making the best of what's been given to you." - Ray Memita

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Love What You Do. Do What You Love.” - Wayne Dyer

" Make it happen, help it happen, or get out of the way." - Author Unknown

“Make one person happy each day and in 40 years you will have mad 14,600 human beings happy, for a little time at least.”  - Carley Willey

" Mental toughness is to see the long term pains rather than be put off by short pains. Once you have this toughness, you have the winning edge." ~ Author Unknown

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln 

" Motivation is the key to success. Failure is the product of loss of motivation. Together we can learn that not trying and failing, is worse then trying and failing. For when you try and fail, you learn from your mistake and while doing nothing provides, not only empty promises but empty lives." - Jordan Duncan

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Unknown

" Never Give Up! Find A Way To Win!" - M.H

“Never give up! You only get one life - live it to the fullest!” - Author Unknown

" Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of."
~ Christy Borgeld

" Never underestimate the power of the combination of inspiration and perseverance."
- Samantha Hinson

“Nine requisites for contented living:

Health enough to make work a pleasure,

Wealth enough to support your needs,

Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them,

Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished,

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future,

Love enough to move you to be useful an help others.”

~ Anon

" No matter how hard things may seem, the diamond of your soul is harder."
~ Major Bostrom

" No matter how many times you fail at something, you are never a failure until the day you quit trying." - Michael T. Vaisanen

" No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

" No one ever climbs a mountain to see the view at the bottom." -  Jamie Gregson

" Nobody ever woke up on top of the mountain; sometimes you just got to go climbing!"
- Bill E. Williams

“Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” - Leo Buscaglia  

“Opportunity often comes in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat." - Napoleon Hill 

“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.” - Lin Yutang

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus

"People who never get carried away should be." ~ Malcolm Forbes

" Perfect comes with fears and a false front." - Aaron Stead

" Pursue your objectives with a steadfast belief and confidence at each and every instance, whether in 'thought' or 'deed'." - Vashi Chandiramani

" Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds."
- Larry Bird

“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” - Edwin Way Teale

" Sometimes a simple "I still believe in you" can mean so much from someone and be so helpful in knowing all isn't lost." - Andrea Holmen

" Sometimes in life things happen and you think the world stops. Hold strong, really it has only changed direction, your future is always as bright as you want it to be."
- Octavia Allen

"Sometimes only the struggle makes it worth it, only the pain makes it sweet, and only victory is the answer." - Author Unknown 

" Start what is necessary, then the possible and suddenly you are going to do impossible."
- Author Unknown

" Success belongs to those individuals who can look at the complex challenges offered by the World as inspiration." ~ Author Unknown

" Success finds a way; failure finds an excuse." - Lawrence V. Fitz

" Success is knowing what you are made up of, in spite of what occurs to you. Greatness is a function of who you are and what you have. The difference between you and your place of glory is an event. Great men have dreams; great dreams rule the world. You are only a thought away from your dream and a step away from your greatness. Take a walk Sir!" ~  Bassey Ndon

" Success is like baseball; you can fail more than you succeed and still make it in the hall of fame." - Bruce A. Rodgers

" The 3 P's to success - Passion, Persistence & Patience." - Doug Bronson

“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.” - Anon

“The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.” - Andre Marois

" The gap between where I am today and where I want to be is too vast, but I shall cover the distance by small leaps forward, for the tortoise never thought of the distance but kept leaping forward." -  Ankush Arora

" The journey is not hard. It only seems hard because the human mind fears the river and avoids the mountain." ~ Author Unknown

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.” - Albert Einstein 

" The purpose of a team is to instill change. Jobs become missions, customers and staff become friends and family, and an employer ceases to be merely a company and becomes a cause worth standing for." - Matthew M. Hering

“The right to happiness is fundamental.” - Anna Pavlova 

" The seeds of success spring from failure's ashes." ~ Robert X. Perez

" The sign on the door to success says, 'PUSH'." - Author Unknown 

“The smartest thing I ever said was, “Help Me!” – Anon

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” - Woody Allen 

" The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"The true object of all human life is to play." ~ G.K. Chesterton

" The ultimate motivator is defeat. Once you are defeated, you have nowhere to go except the top." - Author Unknown

“The world has cares enough to plague us; but he who meditates on other’s woes shall, in that meditation, lose his own.” - Cumberland

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” - Francis Bacon

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” - Carl Jung

"There are two things to aim at in this life; first to get what you want; and, after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

" There is a false belief within our society that to be a winner you have to hit a home run each and every time you go to hit the ball. In reality very few human beings can turn out these sorts of averages. Simply, a winner keeps trying to hit the ball until he hits more than he misses; losers quit." - Author Unknown

“There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.” - Lope de Vega 

" There is no such thing as an extraordinary person. There are only ordinary people continuing on where others give up. The moment one passes the "Give Up Point", EVERYTHING looks EXTRAORDINARY!" - Sharole B. Kaes

" Think positive and you will perform positive so you will achieve positive results."
- Author Unknown

“This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!” - Henrik Ibsen 

" Those who dream of success, dream with their eyes wide open. They set goals, work hard, overcome obstacles and achieve success." - Rohit Gupta

" To achieve it, you have to KNOW it in your HEAD and BELIEVE it in your HEART."
- L. Schmitt

“To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.” - W.H. Auden 

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” ~ Confucious

" To believe is to know with passion." - M.C. Silver

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” - Alexander Pope 

" True leaders are not those who strive to be first, but those who are first to strive and give their all for the success of the team. True leaders are first to see the need, envision the plan, and empower the team for action. By the strength of the leader's commitment, the team is unleashed." ~ Author Unknown

" True winners are made when nobody is watching." ~ Author Unknown

"True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by."

~ E.S. Bouton

“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be silent, if no birds sang except the best."
- Author Unknown

“Wake up with a smile and go after life…Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.”

- Joe Knapp

" Warriors, like all men, always fear failing but they never ever in their life let fear take control over them." - Vibhore Jain

" We plan more but accomplish less. Don't be a background observer ... be an active player. Don't wait for a personal invitation to speak your mind cause you'll never know until you try. Go deeper ... Reach higher. No pain ... No gain ma' friend and always remember that things which hurt ... INSTRUCT." - Author Unknown

" When you are looking for something, you must believe you will find it. When you are scared, you must believe your fear cannot overtake you. The hope in your heart will always be there and once you access it-the possibilities are endless." - Nicci Cettolin

" When you strike out you have a decision to make. You can either get back up there or you can walk off on your team. If you get back up there and strike out again, at least you know you tried. But if you walk off, you know that you cut you and your team short. You will also have to wonder what might have happened if you tried and tried again."
~ Alisha Nelson

" Why cry if you can laugh? Why wait if you can act? Get out there - make a difference!"
- Author Unknown

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitable bring about right results.” - James Allen 

“Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.” - Charles W. Mayo, M.D. 

“Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness.” - Anon

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” - Swedish Proverb 

" You are the world's greatest, when you say you are." - R.Kelly

" You can push me, but I stand still. You can hit me, but I feel no pain. You can scream anything, but I will not hear. You will never bring me down because I will not let you get to me. Watch me win!" - Larry Childs

“You can’t be envious and happy at the same time.” - Frank Tyger 

" You are what you think. Think positively and look at the bright sides of the world."
- Author Unknown

" You will never win unless you guys bond and play as a team. A bunch of amazing individuals will never beat a good team unless you play as a team." - Denny Allen

" You won before, now do it again." - Author Unknown

“Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.” - Lee Iacocca