Pearls of Wisdom on Grooming a Dog
Grooming a Kerry Blue Terrier can be discouraging at times. Here are some words
of encouragement from around the world.
Courtesy of "Bits & Pieces", (http://www.bp-mag.com) and others.
Submitted by John Van den Bergh
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles (1888-1950)
Statesman
When we stop working with our hands, we cease to understand how the world really works.
Clibe Thompson
Editor
Your dream is not big enough if it doesn't scare you.
Matthias Schmelz
Entrepreneur and author
There are three rules for scuccess. The first: Go on. The second: Go on. and the third: Go On
Frank Crane
Recognize an failure early and go on to the next idea.
Bill Heinecke
Entrepreneur
There is an easier, better and quicker way to do most everything, and now as never before, we must seek those easier, better, quicker ways and methods.
Gustav Metzman (1886-1960)
Railroad executive
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Newt Heilscher
Procrastination is the thief of production.
Jim Bartoli
It is always the season for the old to learn.
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.)
Dramatist
Nothing you know is worth anything if you don't know how to be proud of yourself.
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
Photographer, writer, and filmmaker
If you're looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.
Author Unknown
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
Statesman
Everything that IS was once IMAGINED!
Ted Joans (1928-2003)
Poet
Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.
Jerry Colangelo
Basketball Coach
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Danish Proverb
Train beyond your Ability,
Perform beyond your Expectations,
Reach beyond your Imagination.
Bill Spizuoco
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Writer
Justifying a fault doubles it.
Frech Proverb
Make the most of every failure. Fall forward.
You just have to do things the way you think they should be done and see what happens sometimes. If you ask outright the answer is always no.
Melvin Song
Business Executive
Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress, but in result.
Author Unknown
Everything comes to him who husles while he waits.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Inventor
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.
David Storey
Playwright
Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.
Marguerite de Angeli
Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.
Josephine Tessier (1856-1943)
Physicist and engineer
If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not sccuess without a successor.
T.D. Jakes.
Cleric
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988)
Novelist
Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Opera Singer and Kerry owner
No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insoluble problem.
Edmund Kiefer
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Author unknown
One deed is worth a thousand speeches.
American proverb
My job is to be resilient. That's why I call life a dance.
Bill Jones
Dancer
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
Jerry Garcia
Musician
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Author Unknown
Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
Motivational speaker and writer
One man's way may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen
Persuasion
Strive for excellense: Never leave well-enough alone.
Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
Industrial designer
Success often comes from not knowing your limitations
Frank Tyger
To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human.
Bob Goddard
Puppies are the living messages we send to a time we will not
see.
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop.
Sadie T.M. Alexander (1898-1989)
Lawyer and activist
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Author unknown
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
John Nuveen, Jr. (1896-1968)
Business leade
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
Writer
The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: It is work
William Weld
Politician and attorney
All too often the difference between success and failure, progress and regress, happiness and depression--and yes, balance and imbalance--is simply a matter of perspective.
Paul Wilson
Business executive and author
Take a chance: Monotony is the awful reward for the careful
A. G. Buckham
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Journalist
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative, he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
Norman Vinvent Peale (1898-1993)
Cleric and writer
It is never safe o look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman (1848-1909)
Railroad magnate
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are rediculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Poet
Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer.
Haki Madhubuti
Poet and publisher
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Vernon Law
Baseball player
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing: it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Lord Acton (1834-1902)
Historian
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
William Frederick Halsey 91882-1959)
Military officer
Climbing the ladder of success: When rungs were missing, I learned to jump.
William Warfield (1920-2002)
Singer
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Writer
Remember when you were at your best? Now be there again!
Old age and the wear of time teach many things.
Sophocles (c. 496-405 B.C.)
Playwright
A little experience upsets a lot of theory.
S. Parkes Cadman (1864-1936)
Cleric
Somtimes only a change in viewpoint is need to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Alberta Flanders
Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941)
Novelist
Knowledge is power, and power is the key to changing things.
Jill Nelson
Writer
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
Joseph Collins
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004)
Historian and writer
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half
Staffing consultant
Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cadres
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
David Mahoney (1924-2000)
Business leader and philanthropist
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius (239-c 169 B.C)
Poet
Helf-heartedness never won a battle.
William McKinley (1843-1901)
U.S. President
No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.
Alexander T. Stewart (1803-1876)
Entrepreneur
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald Osborn
Cleric
People mistake theirr limitations for high standards.
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Poet and novelist
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire--then you got a problem. Eveything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum
Writer
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
Charles Noble
It's having the right stuff in the right places at the right time--and neither too much nor too little of it.
Alan Sugar
Entrepreneur
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
Robert Savage
Life Lessons
If there is one skill in life that we all need to learn it's how to get back up, dust ourselves off, and get on with things.
A.C. Fing
Motivational speaker
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
Casuals of the sea
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
Author unknown
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1934-1892)
Cleric
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there...and light the bloody thing yourself.
Sara Henderson
Writer
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
Philanthropist and statesman
If you can't have fun at it, there's no sense hanging around.
Joe Montana
Football Player
Recognition of the problem is half the solution.
James Farmer (1920-1992)
Activist
Exert control over the variables that are within your control and you'll improve the odds that the uncontrollable variables will work in your favor.
D. A. Benton
Executive consultant
Forget the goals. Value the process.
Jim Bouton
Baseball player
I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A.E. Hotchener
Writer
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen (1864-1925)
Writer
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interest of longer purposes.
Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982)
Sociologist and educator
He who graduates today, and stops learning tomorrow, is uneducated the day after.
Newton Baker (1871-1937)
Politician
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
Historian and writer
There's no ceiling on effort.
Harvey Fruehauf
Business executive
If you don't work, you can't play.
J. B. Priestly
Out of Town
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I'll try again tomorrow."
Maryanne Radmacher
Writer and artist
Confidence is courage at ease.
Daniel Maher
Psychologist
Nothing is predestined: The obsticles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
I never allow myself to be bored, because boredom is aging. If you live in the past you grow old, and dull, and dusty.
Marrie Tempest (1864-1942)
Entertianer
If you want to be first-class, you've got yo act first-class.
Joe Namath
Football player
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Andrew Mason
Physician
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
Ernest Hemmingway
Death In The Afternoon
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Stephen R. Covey
Leadership consultant
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
There aren't any rules to success that will work unless you do.
The person who never makes a mistake works for someone who does.
Hector Laing
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Plato (c. 428-c. 348 B.C.)
Better to rise to the occasion than to hit the ceiling.
Only by taking the risk of going too far can you determine how far you can go.
Joe Heuer
Motivational writer and speaker
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
W.D. Howells (1837-1920)
Writer and critic
If we get what we think about most, why would we think about what we don't want?
Tom Payne
Career development expert
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
Epictetus (c. 55-135)
Philosopher
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Writer
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.
Coleman Cox
Writer
Most of the things worth doing in the world were said to be impossible before they were done.
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)
Jurist
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
Personal achievement coach and speaker
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson (1907-1999)
Film director
Keep Moving
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous--It is the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
Anne Shannon Monroe (1877-1942)
Journalist
Traveling on the Road of Risk
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Writer
Do not pray for easy lives, pray for stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Cleric
In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have...is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda
Publisher
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.
Karen Horney (1885-1952)
Psychoanalyst
Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misuderstood.
Gypsey Teague
Writer
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Philosopher
It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
Warren Buffett
Inventor and business leader
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning
Catherine Aird
Writer
A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
Ruggiero Ricci
Musician
We are all manufacturers: making goods, making trouble, making excuses.
Author unknown
Before you throw in the towel and admit defeat, remember the words of the great inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931), who siad, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.
Harvey Ullman
Wisdom is learning from all your experience, which means maybe you don't make the same mistake over and over again. And you're more tolerant.
Jessica Tandy (1909-1994)
Actor
There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.
Wally Amos
Founder of Famous Amos Cookies
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination...
Charles Ketteering (1876-1958)
Inventor
Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others--a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.
Thomas Kinkade
Artist
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens (1904-1996)
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
Gene Brown
What should happen when you make a mistake is this: You take your knocks, you learn your lessons, and then you move on.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
U.S. President
What does it take to be the best? Everything. And everything is up to you.
Emmitt Smith
Football Player
One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline--and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.
Carl Zuckmayer 91896-1977)
Dramatist
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
U.S. President
The more steam you put into your work, the louder you can whistle when the work is done.
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fencce, it may be that they take better care of it there.
Cecil Selig
It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.
Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996)
Singer
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norrris (1880-1966)
Writer
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali
Boxer
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Agnes Allen
Every passage has its price.
Meredith Ann Pierce
If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you hvae.
Erk Russell
College football coach
If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.
Liz Smith
Columnist
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey (1935-2001)
Writer
One of the things I learned early in life was to ask for help.
Michelle Obama
Heathcare executive
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
Scientist and educator
Work is what you do so that some time you won't have to do it any more.
Alfred Polgar (1873-1955)
Essayist
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
Writer
Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
William Feather (1889-1981)
Writer and publisher
Make good habits and they will make you.
Parks Cousins
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicate to the simple.
C.W. Ceram (1915-1972)
Writer
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Anita Boddick
Founder of The Body Shop
The streets of the City of Failure are paved with alibis--some of which are absolutely perfect.
Harry A. Ernshaw (d. 1953)
Playwright
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Philospher and mathematician
Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off
your goal.
Henry Ford
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George (1863-1945)
British Prime Minister
On the wall of my room when I was in rehab was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our moto.
Christopher Reeve
Actor
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn't have to repeat itself.
Trust your own insticts. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
Film producer and director
We don't remain good if we don't always strive to become better.
Gottfried Keller (1819-1890)
Writer
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
Poet
You've got to take the initiative and play your game... Confidence makes the difference.
Chris Evert
Tennis Player
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Raymond Duncan
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1931)
Writer
Knock the "t" out of "can't."
George Reeves
Actor
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
Writer
Whatever I'm doing today is important, and I will do my level best, because I'm giving up a day of my life to do it.
Pat Williams
If you let your past control your present, then you will never have a future.
Suzie Davis
Life is too short to sit on the sidelines; it is much more fun to give it your enthusiastic best.
Bob Apple
Reputation means nothing if you don't get the job done. So stop talking and get moving.
John Gross
There are no menial jobs; anything that needs to be done is important.
Cheryl Jinx Haas
It is OK to fail, but is is not OK to ever give up.
Norman Tanaka
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find and excuse.
Frank Banks
Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.
C. H. Woodward
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer (1895-1961)
Poet and writer
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
Vice Lombardi (1913-1970)
Football coach
If you believe in what you're doing, it's amazing how much you can accomplish.
Jennifer Stockburger
Automotive engineer
Don't stop now! We conquer by continuing.
George Matheson (1842-1906)
Theologian and hymn writer
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
John C. Maxwell
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Journalist
We become what we expect to become. Greatness can be achieved only if we expect it from ourselves and from others!
James D. Ericson
Life-insurance executive
Perseverance: You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don't give up.
Chuck Yeager, Test pilot
Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you.
Will Rose
Little things have big results sometimes.
Margaret Moore
That which is loved is always beautiful.
Norwegian Proverb
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James McCay
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
You have to be careful about being too careful.
Beryl Pfizer
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman Macewan
If I've learned anything in my 70 years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.
Bushrod H. Campbell
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.
Bob Dole
Politician
Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.
Jerry Gillies
Writer
We learn to walk by stumbling.
Bulgarian Proverb
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
You may fail a thousand times, but success may be hiding behind the next step. You never know how close the prize is unless you continue.
Bob Tyler
Football coach
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
B.W.M. Yoiung
Educator
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
Entrepreneur
There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.
Humphry Osmond (1917-2004)
Psychiatrist
There is a giant asleep within every man.
When the giant awakes, miracles happen.
Frederick Faust (1892-1944)
Writer
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton (1918-1992)
Founder of Wal-Mart
Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Dan Reeves
Football coach and motivational speaker
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Relogious leader
Give me time enough, and I may like it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Writer and naturalist
Education is learning what you didn't even know you don't know.
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (1914-2004)
Historian and writer
The First Rule of Survival: Pay Attention!
James Sitton
The only error of life is to look back and say, "I never learned from my mistakes."
Steve A. McKown
The measure of a person is determined by what he dreams.
John Holcomb
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Obrien
Humorist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Evenius (42 B.C. - 13 A.D.)
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras (c. 580-c.500 B.C.)
Philosopher and mathematician
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
Olympic medalist and politician
We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
Vaclav Havel
Czech Republic president and playwright
If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
Robert Coons
Never grow a wishbone...where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford (1900-1967) Food edit
Ask more of yourself than anyone can ever ask of you, and that way you'll always be prepared for whatever is coming.
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Actor and choreographer
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
College basketball coach
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself.
There must be contests, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Historian
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw (1944-2004)
Professional baseball player
When the going gets tough, the though get creative.
Author unknown
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination
John Lennon (1940-1980)
Musician
Your struggle may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
Author unknown
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Writer
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis (1908-1989)
Actor
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Vigil Thomson (1896-1989)
Composer and music critic
Go beyond your comfort zone. If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
Randall McBride, Jr.
Clergyman
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
U.S. First Lady
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
Anthony Robbins
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
Philantropist
Failure is an event, never a person.
William D. Brown
What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Artist
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975)
Physician
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Author Unknown
Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray.
Yue Fei (1103-1141)
Army general
There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Poet and journalist
Failure seldom stops you; what stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon (1925-2001)
Actor
Succss is not a destination. It is a constant, continous journey.
George H. Denny
Educator
There's little to say what hasn't been said.
There's much to do that hasn't been done.
Earle Atkinson
What is best for you does not mean it's best for another.
Charlie Steen
There's a better way to do it. Find it!
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Inventor
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
Dan Kaercher
Editor and writer
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you
have climed.
Frederick Douglas (1817-1895)
Abolitionist
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower
Socical critic
Feel the fear, and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
Motivational speaker and writer
If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked lie.
Bertolt Brecht
Galileo
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)
Clergyman
What small potaoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
Writer and editor
Trust in your own untried capacity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Poet and writer
Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.
Mary Waldrip
Journalist
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Schultz
Public official
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
Explorer
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Politician and philosopher
The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little.
Thomas Guthrie
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what your're going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.
Marilyn Grey
Motivational speaker
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Madden (1850-1924)
Founder of Success magazine
Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless
Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966)
U. S. Navy Admiral
We have no limits--we create them in our mind.
Bud Labranche
Motivational speaker and writer
Take a risk: A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
West Point Cadet Maxim
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do.
Nido Qubein
Business consultant and author
Keep your mind off the things you don't want by keeping it on the things you do want.
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)
Founder of Combined Insurance Co.
What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
Writer
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Lexicographer and writer
Learning is discovering that something is possible.
Fritz Perls (1893-1970)
Psychoanalyst
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Writer
People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed.
Bob Moawad
Business leader
When you get down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you will find it simply means to follow through.
F.W.Nichols
Either I wll find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Writer and courtier
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid (c. 43 B.C. - 18 A.D.)
Poet
Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
Sandor Minab
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes (1900-1993)
Actor
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
32nd U.S. President
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
Harry Banks
There is no limitation other than what your think.
Kenneth Mills
Philosopher, composer, and artist
Stress-Buster Tip: Do yourself a favor. Overlook at least two things today.
M.J. Ryan
Editor
A good example is the best sermon.
Tomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Clergymen
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)
Dramatist
There is no free tuition in the school of experience.
Failures are like skinned knees--painful, but superficial.
H. Ross Perot
Business executive
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George Patton (1885-1945)
U.S. Army General
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
Bernard Baruch (1870-1965)
Presidential advisor
There will always be a conflict between "good" and "good enough."
Henry Martyn Leland (1843-1932)
Mechanical engineer
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Philosopher
The road to success is a toll road. Pay that small, daily fee, and you'll be able to go most anywhere you want. Leave some time for fun, and you'll enjoy the ride.
Steve Goodier
Writer
Always expect the best and you'll see that the outcome is spontaneously contained in the expectation.
Deepak Chopra
Physician and writer
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
Ichthyologist and educator
Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.
Conan O'Brien
"Harvard Commencement Address"
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam (1926-2001)
Business Leader
Sometimes if you want to see a change for he better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood
Actor and politician
The world always steps aside for people who know where they're going.
Miriam Viola Larsen
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.
Ronald McNair (1950-1986)
Astronaut
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
Writer
Find reasosn to do the important things, instread of reasosns not to do them. Risk, experiment, and don't forget to have some fun while you are at it.
Ernie Zelinski
Consultant
Few wishes come true by themselves.
Author unknown
Live as if there were no tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
British prime minister
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Activist
Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine.
Dan Millman
Speaker and writer
Every experience is a learning experience. Every time we try something -- win or lose -- we learn, we grow, we attain more confidence and competence for the next time.
Pat Williams
Basketball executive
If you're not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination.
Joe Tye
Motivational speaker and coach
Success never rests. On your worst days, be good. And on your best days, be great. An on every oher day, get better.
Carmen Marano
Educator and writer
No Matter how severe the storm that is trying to blow you off the road, the important thing is to keep pushing and never give up.
Erin Brockovich
Activist
Mistakes are learning tools if held at the right end.
Some people make things happen.
Some people watch things happen.
Some people wonder what happened.
The Law of the 5 Ps
- Prior
- Preparation
Prevents- Poor
- Performance
- Preparation
The pursuit of excellence is a continous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.
Elaine L. Chao
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Form follows function.
Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924)
Architect
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Cleaver (1864-1943)
Botanist
Everything is always impossible before it works.
Hunt Green
Businessman
To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.F. Gouthey
If you're scared, just holler and you'll find it ain't so lonesome out there.
Joe Sugden (1870-1959)
Professional baseball player
Most of this world's useful work is done by poeple who are pressed for time, or are tired, or don't feel well.
Life has two rules: Number one, never quit; Number two, always remember rule number one.
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Musician and compoaer
It's the start that stops most people.
Asked which of his works he would select as his masterpiece, architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the age of 83 replied, "My next one."
Succes is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker Washington (1856-1915)
Educator
If at first you DO succeed, try something harder.
Ann Landers
Syndicated Columnist
The door of opportunity is marked "push."
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
Theologian
You have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror every day and say, "I did the best I could."
Bonnie Reits
Airline executive
All things at first appear difficult.
Chinese proverb
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work on it.
Rule #1: Take yourself less seriously.
Odette Pollar
A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albrecht
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
Opera singer
Defeat isn't bitter, as long as you don't swallow it.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)
Philosopher
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician
Exellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
Educator
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Film producer
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995)
Writer
Nothing is particularly hard if you devide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Founder of the Ford Motor Company
Even the things you cannot imagine are possible.
Almost everything is more complicated that it seems, but almost nothing is hopeless
Vincent Barnett
Former president of Colgate University
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
Ted Williams (1918-2002)
Baseball player
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Act as it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande (1893-1948)
Writer
We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Writer
He who would go a hunderd miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.
Japanese Proverb
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
Philosopher
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Nikki Giovanni
Poet
You can't hit a target if you don't have it clearly in sight.
Jo-Ellen Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella
Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you're scared.
Marilyn Barrick
Psychologist and writer
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lessons afterward.
Author unknown
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden, Retired basketball coach
Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.
Joan Lunden, Journalist
It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
Spanish proverb
If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Yiddish proverb
The woods would be very silent if only the birds with the sweetest songs were heard.
Steve Goodier
Writer and speaker
Anything in life is possible if you make it happen. And it's never too late.
Jack La Lanne
Fitness pioneer
Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggled for.
Marian Wright Edelman
President of the Children's Defence Fund
Nothing makes us feel so strong as a call for help.
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
Writer
Do what you are afraid to do.
Mary Emerson (1774-1863)
Aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
Supreme Court Justice
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Writer
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapers (1715-1747)
Moralist
Dreams in life may seem impossible. They are not. Impossible dreams are achieved one goal at a time.
Herman Cain
Chairman of Godfather's Pizza
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do,
what experience tells you to do,
and what your nerves let you do.
Bruce Crampton
Professional golfer
There may be times when the best decision is to do nothing.
Ray Josephs
Business executive
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Philosopher and writer
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
Philosopher and writer
Stop trying to impress others - strive to impress yourself.
Mike Scicchitano
Failure is not permanent and neither is success.
Success is the intersection where dreams and hard work meet.
Be Bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy...
Billie Jean King
Tennis player
Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there.
Leonard Roy Frank
Editor and writer
Commitment is never an act of moderation!
Kenneth Mills
Philosopher, composer, and artist
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Cherie Carter-Scott
Preparation yesterday will help make today productive, and productivity today will help make tomorrow's dream a reality.
Jay Kimbel
To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Designer and writer
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
Writer
Remember every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
James A. Brewer
Hospital worker and writer
Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.
Les Brown
Motivational Speaker
I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know it can be done. I know the impossible can become possible.
Marcia Wallace
Actor
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Founder of Franciscan Order of Priests
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett (1891-1971)
Advertising executive
Statistically - 100 percent of the shots you don't take, don't go in.
Wayne Gretzky
Hockey player
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Sir Winston Churchil (1874-1965)
British Prime Miniser
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
Football coach
Overcomming the unexpected and discovering the unknown is what ignites our spirt. It is what life is all about.
Daniel Golden
NASA Administrator
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
U. S. First Lady
To the daring belongs the future.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Social activist
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Entrepreneur
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
Actor
When you reach to top, that's where the climb begins.
Michael Caine
Actor
The journey is the reward.
Greg Norman
Professional Golfer
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Brian Tracy
Career development expert
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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 (1835-1910)
You can reach any goal...
IF you know what the goal is;
IF you really want it;
IF it is a good goal;
IF you believe you can each it;
IF you work to achieve it;
IF you think positively.
Norman Vincent Peale
Ignore the ones who say it's too late to start over.
Disregard those who say you'll never amount to anything.
Turn a deaf ear to those who say you aren't smart enough, fast enough, tall
enough, or big enough -- ignore them.
Max Lucado
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
Carolyn Gilmore
Writer
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.
Gail Godwin
Writer.
An ouce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Philosopher and economist