Here are a few that I like... there are so many more... but it is a start...
"Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down." ~Unknown
"Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to." ~Unknown
"Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it 10%." ~Norman Vincent Pearle
"The time is always right to do what is right." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The train of failure usually runs on the track of laziness." ~Unknown
"A person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching." ~Unknown
"Most often the company you keep will determine the trouble you meet." ~Unknown
"Your words are windows to your heart." ~Unknown
"You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts." ~Madeline L'Engle
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." ~Unknown
"A diamond is a piece of coal that finished what it started." ~Unknown
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." ~Duke Ellington
"In life, we have either reasons or results..." ~Peter McWilliams
"Never look down on anyone, unless you are helping him up." ~Mark Twain
"We tend to get what we expect." ~Norman Vincent Pearle
"It is fun to do the impossible." ~Walt Disney
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of second-rate version of somebody else." ~Judy Garland
"We can do no great things -- only small things with great love." ~Mother Teresa
I admire John Wooden, here are some of his quotes... "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." "Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." "Success is peace of mind in knowing that you did your best." "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail." "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
Henry Ford... "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." "Whether you think you can or think your can't -- you are right." "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." "Don't find fault. Find a remedy." "It is not the employer who pays the wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages."
Vince Lombardi... "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." " Winning is not everything -- but making the effort to win is."
"You cannot put the same shoe on every foot." ~Pablilius Syrus
"I do not know the key to success, but the key to failure is tyring to please everybody." ~Bill Cosby
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." ~Martin Van Buren
"Believe you can and you are halfway there." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"Nothing is politically correct which is morally wrong." ~O'Connell
"Always do more than is required of you." ~George S. Patton
"Be proud of who you are and what you stand for, and you will be proud of what you become." ~Anonymous
"Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out." ~Dale Carnegie
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when sticks his neck out." ~James B. Conant
"If you want a share of the rewards, you must take a share of the work." ~Anonymous
"Working hard is not always fun -- that's why it is called work." ~Rick Pitino
"Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid." ~Albert Schweitzer
"The love we give away is never gone; it is kept in the hearts of others." ~Anonymous
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." ~T.H. Thompson
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Click on the underlined words for other webpages with quotes... Quote: Accomplishment : "It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to." --Walter Linn --
Quote: Adversity : "Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." -- J. Willard Marriott
Quote: Back At Ya : "For each time you smile you will find it is true somebody, somewhere will smile back at you" --- Helen Steiner Rice ---
Quote: Best Prize : "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt --
Quote: Best Roller-Coaster : "Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills."--- Roger Crawford
Quote: Best Teacher : "Time is the greatest teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all of its pupils."-- Hector Berlioz
Quote: Best Weapon : "Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." -Bill Chickering, Healing an Angry Heart
Quote: Dreams : "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, ife is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes
Quote: Education : "Formal education will earn you a living. Self-education make you a fortune." --Anonymous
Quote: Eternal Success : "A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops."- The education of Henry Adams (1907) ch.20
Quote: Eventually... : "And castles, made of sand, fall in the sea... eventually."-- Jimi Hendrix -
Quote: Experience : "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote: First Friend : "Friendship is a very beautiful gift to have, but unless a person is friends with himself, friends will be hard to find - yet harder to keep." Meighan Seigel
Quote: Freedom : "Freedom, rights, liberation; call it what you will, it has never been just given to anyone. It has been taken, achieved, or created, but never just given."-- Ed Howdershelt
Quote: Giving : "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." -George MacDonald
Quote: Great Teachers : "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." --William Arthur Ward --
Quote: Guarantees : "There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary." --Emmanuel --
Quote: Hate : "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." --Booker T. Washington --
Quote: Helpfulness : "Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you."-Sufi Teaching
Quote: J.R.R. Tolkien : All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. -J. R. R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"
Quote: Keep On Keepin' On : "If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting." --Steven Covey --
Quote: Life's Inmost Secret : "When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret." - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Quote: Living : "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." --Agnes de Mile, American dancer-choreographer (1905-1993) --
Quote: Love & Hate : "The love I have for people far outweighs the hate I have for their actions."- Neill MacRae, Australia
Quote: Love Directions : "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction." --Anonymous --
Quote: Making History : "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter." --African Proverb --
Quote: Marriage : "A good marriage is not simply the result of finding the right person; but rather it is the result of being the right person."- Anonymous --
Quote: Meaning Of Love : "'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially -even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it." - William R. Mattox, Jr.
Quote: Misery : "Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional."- Art Clanin --- contributed
Quote: Mistakes : "Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts." --Nikki Giovanni --
Quote: Outwitted : "He drew a circle that shut me out heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win,we drew a circle that took him in."- Edwin Markham, Outwitted -
Quote: Perseverance : "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to succeed." --George Allen --
Quote: Prosperity and Poverty : "Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." -- Eric Butterworth
Quote: Self-Measurements : "Give some people an inch, and they think they are rulers."-- Anonymous -
Quote: Self-Valuation : "If you put a small value upon youself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." --Anonymous --
Quote: Solitude : "To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions." - Deepak Chopra
Quote: Speaker's Motto : "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." --Mark Twain --
Quote: Success : "Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause." - Jeff Herman
Quote: Take It Away, Hubert : "It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left." --Hubert Humphrey --
Quote: Talent : "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." --Henry Van Dyke --
Quote: Teaching : "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig." -- Folk saying
Quote: The Ingredients Of Success : "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." --Mark Twain --
Quote: Transformation : "What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things."- Anonymous
Quote: True Happiness : "They say a person needs 3 things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." --- Tom Bodett ---
Quote: Wealth Beyond Measure : "If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy." --Anonymous --
Quote: Why Not? : "You see things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and say, 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw --
Quote: Worst Tax : Quote: "Taxes could be worse... Suppose we had to pay what we think we are worth?"--- Anonymous ---