Ideas & Imagination Quotes

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.- Thomas Edison

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.- Brian Tracy

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
- Napoleon Hill

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. - Pablo Picasso

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them....- Thomas Edison

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.- Vincent Van Gogh

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.- Thomas Edison

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.- Pablo Picasso

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.- Thomas Edison

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.- Thomas Edison

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.- Jim Rohn

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas.- George Bernard Shaw

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.- Thomas Edison

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.- Pablo Picasso

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.- Aristotle

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
- Napoleon Hill

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.
- Alexander Graham Bell

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
- Napoleon Hill

Posession of anything begins in the mind.- Bruce Lee

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
- Robert Collier

The man who has no imagination has no wings.- Muhammad Ali

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.- Henry Ford

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.- Nelson Mandela

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.- Henry Ford

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.- Alexander Graham Bell

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Time Quotes

Don't count the days, make the days count.- Muhammad Ali

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.- Napoleon Hill

Either you run the day or the day runs you.- Jim Rohn

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.- Bruce Lee

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.- Henry Ford

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.- Leonardo Da Vinci

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas. - Brian Tracy

Remember that time is money.- Benjamin Franklin

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.
- Richard Wayne Bandler

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.- Albert Einstein

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.- Thomas Edison

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.- Thomas Edison

The time is always right to do what is right.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There will be sleeping enough in the Grave.- Benjamin Franklin

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time ain't for wastin', no there's no time for that.- Jimmy Buffett

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.- Jim Rohn

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.- Jim Rohn

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.- Thomas Edison

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.- Albert Einstein

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.- Thomas Edison

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.- Thomas Edison

The time is always right to do what is right.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time ain't for wastin', no there's no time for that.- Jimmy Buffett

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.- Jim Rohn

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.- Jim Rohn

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.- Thomas Edison

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter Drucker

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.- Leonardo Da Vinci

We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa

You may delay, but time will not.- Benjamin Franklin

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Commitment Quotes

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.- Tom Flores

A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises. - Unknown Author
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.- Bill Cosby

As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.- Dan Millman

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.- Imre Lakatos

Commitment doesn’t mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.- Susan Jeffers

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
- Anon

Commitment turns a promise into reality with words that speak boldly of your intentions and actions that speak louder than words.- Steve Brunkhorst

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.- James Womack

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

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.- E. Joseph Cossman

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?- Nelson Mandela

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.- Bill Gates

I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?- Harvey Fierstein

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.- Lou Holtz

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
- Denis Waitley

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.- Peter Drucker

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.- Charles Buxton

Stay committed to your decisions; but stay flexible in your approach.Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.
- Brian Tracy - Tom Robbins

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.- Mack R. Douglas

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.- Stephen R. Covey

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.- Zig Ziglar

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.- Vince Lombardi

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doub- Dr. Rollo May

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.- Ken Blanchard

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.- Peter Drucker

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.- Woody Hayes

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.- Scott O'Grady

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Money and Wealth Quotes

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.- Henry Ford

A penny saved is a penny earned.- Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.- Benjamin Franklin

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. - Jim Rohn

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.- Ray Kroc

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.- Benjamin Franklin

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.- Henry Ford

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.- Woody Allen

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.- Brian Tracy

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.- Henry Ford

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.- Aristotle

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.- George Bernard Shaw

There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside of you.- T. Harv Eker

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.- Muhammad Ali

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.- Plato

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.- Henry Ford

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
- Jim Rohn

Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do!- T. Harv Eker

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.- Benjamin Franklin

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.- Donald Trump

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.- Zig Ziglar

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.- Zig Ziglar

One could rely on people’s promises in most matters except in respect of money.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.- T. Harv Eker

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
- T. Harv Eker

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”
- Wayne W. Dyer

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.- Andrew Carnegie

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Peace Quotes

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.- Bruce Lee

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.- Mahatma Gandhi

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.- Buddha

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. - Winston Churchill

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.- Bruce Lee

If we have no peace, it is because we forget we belong to each other.- Mother Teresa

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner- Nelson Mandela

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other. - Elie Wiesel

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.- Amelia Earhart

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace begins with a smile.- Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.- Albert Einstein

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.- John F. Kennedy

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.- Nelson Mandela

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When embarking on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.- Confucius

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Determination, Persistence Quotes

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.- Benjamin Disraeli

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.- John Christian Bovee

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.- Christian Nestell Bovee

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
- Napoleon Hill

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
- Brian Tracy

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.- Leonardo Da Vinci

Despair is the conclusion of fools.- Benjamin Disraeli

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.- Anthony Robbins

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.- Thomas Edison

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.- Napoleon Hill

I made the door in my house left-handed, because I'm left handed. When people come in, they push the door the wrong way, and hit themselves on the door. And you know what ? People keep harder and harder to do it ! When something doesn't work, try the same thing harder !- Richard Wayne Bandler

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.- Samuel Johnson

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.- Mother Teresa

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.- Napoleon Hill

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.- Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.- Charles De Gaulle

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
- Charles Swindoll

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire. - Chinese Proverb

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.- Alexander Graham Bell

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.- Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.- Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is the thief of time. - Chinese Proverb

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.- Albert Einstein

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.- Thomas Edison

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.- Tommy Lasorda

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.- Napoleon Hill

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. - Napoleon Hill

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Anthony Robbins

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.- Cecil B. DeMille

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.- Vince Lombardi

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness. - Thomas Edison

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.- Dolly Parton

There is always a way-if you're committed.
- Anthony Robbins

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.- Bruce Lee

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.- Napoleon Hill

Without infinite patience it is impossible to get the people to do any work.- Mahatma Gandhi

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

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. - Brian Tracy

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Confidence Quotes

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?- Zig Ziglar

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.- Oprah Winfrey

Be who you are in every situation.- Michael Johnson

Confidence is the companion of success.- Unknown Author

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.- Donald Trump

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
- Jesse Jackson

Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.- Lao Tzu

Know yourself and you will win all battles.- Lao Tzu

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.- Zig Ziglar

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.- Samuel Johnson

Self-trust is the first secret of success.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. - Brian Tracy

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. - Brian Tracy

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. - Brian Tracy

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.- Unknown Author

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.- Zig Ziglar

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Ambition, Desire Quotes

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.- Napoleon Hill

Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of oppurtunity for you and countless others. - Zig Ziglar

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.- Muhammad Ali

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.- Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.- Napoleon Hill

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.- Henry Ford

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.- Napoleon Hill

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.- Robert Louis Stevenson

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
- Jim Rohn

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.- Thomas Edison

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.- Benjamin Disraeli

Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.- Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing humbler than Ambition, when it is about to climb.- Benjamin Franklin

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hearts earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.- Mahatma Gandhi

The starting point of all achievement is desire.- Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill

We will either find a way, or make one.- Hannibal

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. - Napoleon Hill

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.- Jim Rohn

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your business is never really good or bad "out there" your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.- Zig Ziglar

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Knowledge

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.- Bruce Lee

All men by nature desire to know.- Aristotle

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.- Henry Ford

Be a lifelong student. The moreyou learn, the more you earn and more self confidence you will have. - Brian Tracy

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.- Plato

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn

Doubt grows with knowledge.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.- Napoleon Hill

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.- Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.- Nelson Mandela

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
- Albert Einstein

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.- Malcolm Forbes

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.- Socrates

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.- Jim Rohn

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.- Benjamin Franklin

How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.- John Abbott

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.- Confucius

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.- Henry Ford

If someone is going down the wrong road, he does not need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around . - Jim Rohn

If you don't ask, you don't get.- Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.- Bruce Lee

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.- Albert Einstein

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life-it goes on- Robert Frost

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.- Wilbur Wright

It's obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.- Thomas Edison

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter Drucker

Knowledge is an antidote to fear.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is only potential power.- Napoleon Hill

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. - Brian Tracy

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.- Leonardo Da Vinci

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.- Jim Rohn

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.- Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.- Mahatma Gandhi

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. - Jim Rohn

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Anthony Robbins

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success. - Brian Tracy

Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man.
- Benjamin Franklin

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.- Confucius

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.- Leonardo Da Vinci

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production. - Brian Tracy

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.- Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.- Albert Einstein

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.- Plato

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.- Aristotle

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it to confess your ignorance.- Confucius

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.- Confucius

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.- Benjamin Disraeli

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.- Henry Ford

The only source of knowledge is experience. - Albert Einstein

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.- Aristotle

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.- Buddha

There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.-Plato

Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.- Confucius

Think and grow rich. -Napoleon Hill

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.- Leonardo Da Vinci

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power" to "mind power". We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle. - Brian Tracy

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.- Henry David Thoreau

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.- Peter Drucker

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.- Socrates

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
- Benjamin Disraeli

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us.
- Thomas Edison

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
- Jim Rohn

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.- Peter Drucker

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.- Confucius

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge.- Confucius

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Failure and Difficulties

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.- Michael Johnson

Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.- Napoleon Hill

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.- Bruce Lee

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.- Josephus Daniels

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.- Dale Carnegie

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.- Unknown Author

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.- Napoleon Bonaparte

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.- Zig Ziglar

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure. - Brian Tracy

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.- Jim Rohn

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.- Unknown Author

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Failure is success if we learn from it.- Malcolm Forbes

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.- Lao Tzu

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For more people to become entrepreneurs, we have to change our attitude towards those who fail.- Lee Kuan Yew

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.- Napoleon Bonaparte

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- Thomas Edison

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.- Oprah Winfrey

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

I have learnt more from my mistakes than from my success.- Sir Humpry Davy

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occassions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed.- Michael Jordon

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.- Thomas Edison

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.- Muhammad Ali

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.- Lou Holtz

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully redesigned, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and with it, opportunity.- Peter Drucker

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. - Anthony Robbins

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.- Vince Lombardi

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Incorrect assumptionslie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumption. - Brian Tracy

It does not matter the number of times we fall but the number of times we rise when we fall.- Confucius

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. - Brian Tracy

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.- David Feherty

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. - Anthony Robbins

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.- Thomas Edison

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.- Sherman Finesilver

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.- Unknown Author

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.- Zig Ziglar

Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.- Orison Swett Marden

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.- Struther Burt

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.- Napoleon Hill

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.- Anthony Robbins

Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.- Napoleon Hill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.- Abraham Lincoln

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be succesful. - Brian Tracy

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. - Napoleon Hill

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.- Robert Francis Kennedy

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.- William Shakespeare

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Past failures are the guidepost for future success.- Unknown Author

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.- Brian Tracy

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success
- Dowden

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.- Dell Crossword

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.- Nelson Mandela

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.- Unknown Author

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.- George Shultz

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.- Anthony J. D'Angelo

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.- H.W. Arnold

Turn your wounds into wisdom.- Oprah Winfrey

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.- Phillip Adams

What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don't see is the 99 percent which are my failures.- Soichiro Honda

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.- Napoleon Hill

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. - Zig Ziglar

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
- Michael Johnson

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Attitude, Positive Thinking

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.- Earl Nightingale

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.- Unknown Author

Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost.- Robert H. Schuller

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees onlythe red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.- Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude determines altitude.- Zig Ziglar

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.- M. Russell Ballard

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.- Jim Rohn

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.- William James

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.- Brian Tracy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is not an occasional habit, it is a permanent attitude- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.- Buddha .

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.- Denis Waitley .

If you hang out with a loser, you are a loser. Taken from The Apprentice- Donald Trump.

If you think you can-you can!- Unknown Author

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.- William James

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.- Zig Ziglar

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
- Zig Ziglar

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.- Napoleon Hill

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. - Brian Tracy

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.- Thomas Jefferson

Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. - Zig Ziglar

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.- Earl Nightingale

People settle for mediocrity for one reason - they're lazy. Taken from The Apprentice
- Donald Trump

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. - Jim Rohn

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.- Zig Ziglar

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.- William James

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. - Zig Ziglar

The most important question to ask on the job is not, What am I getting? The most important question is, What am I becoming?- Jim Rohn

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.- John Wooden

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.- Muhammad Ali

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin 'thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes. - Zig Ziglar

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.- Albert Einstein

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.- Brian Tracy

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny. - Zig Ziglar

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.- Robert Collier

You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise. - Zig Ziglar

You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.- Wayne W. Dyer

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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chatterboxes

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. -George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. -Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. -Thomas Neill

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -Plato (429-347 BC)

The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

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Hypocrisy

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer. -Dean Acheson.

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

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learning from history

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana (1863-1952)

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. -John Cage (1912-1992)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -Napoleon Bonaparte

What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

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Being oneself

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over. -Yiddish proverb

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. -Daisy Bates (1863-1951)

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. -James R. Cook

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778

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