"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength"

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."

"We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner truth or we can base them on reactions to outer circumstances. This power always belongs to us. No one can take it from us."

Personal Achievement Quotes

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"Define your personal dignity today. Make a list of the positive internal qualities that you value that never change. Read it every morning and evening to remind yourself that no matter what you meet in the course of the day, regardless of the actions of others, no one can define who you are but you. "

"Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong."

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

"Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where does it get you?"

"The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn."

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

"When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish."

"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."

"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams."

"Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever."

"A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement."

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."

"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."

"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."

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

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

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them."

"The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments."

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."

"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do."

"If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked."

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Where there are friends there is wealth."

"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

"The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing."

"Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster."

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

"Success comes from hard work.   Looking for the easy way only leads to the longer path."

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

"Whatever you do in life, echoes thru eternity."

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

"Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty."

"Being true to the highest and best within us regardless of circumstances, is not always easy, but it is always worth it."

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."

"To win or lose,
To love or hate,
To try or quit,
To risk or withdraw,
To accelerate or hesitate.
To dream or stagnate,
To open or close,
To succeed or fail,
To live or die,
Everyone of these starts with a CHOICE"

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

"Our own attitude determines how we view each task or responsibility that we have. We can look at it as a chore or a privilege. Thinking in terms of being privileged positively affects the way we approach whatever we do."

"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat."

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"In the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything."

"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."

"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat."

"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer."

"Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance."

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built."

"One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them."

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."

"You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus."

"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future."

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism."

"Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out."

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

"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."

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me,
And I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done,
And after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great men.
And, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine.
Plus, the intelligence of a man.
You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;
It makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me
And I will put the world at your feet.
Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.
Who am I?

I am HABIT!

The most destructive habit ……… Worry
The greatest joy ……… Giving
The greatest loss ……… Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work ……… Helping others
The most endangered species ……… Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource ……… Our youth
The greatest “shot in the arm” ……… Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome ……… Fear
The most effective sleeping pill ……… Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease ……… Excuses
The most powerful force in life ……… Love
The most dangerous pariah ……… A gossiper
The world’s most incredible computer ……… The brain
The worst thing to be without ……… Hope
The deadliest weapon ……… The tongue
The two most power-filled words ……… “I Can”
The greatest asset ……… Faith
The most worthless emotion ……… Self-pity
The most beautiful attire ……… A SMILE!
The most prized possession ……… Integrity
The most contagious spirit ……… Enthusiasm

"To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world."

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."

"Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."

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

"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."

"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price."

"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."

"You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want."

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it."

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish. It's measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain your struggle against the odds."

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."

"The road to your championship will not be a smooth, wide and easily traveled freeway. No, great accomplishments are never realized without first having to endure steep climbs, hard falls and sharp turns. The key to your success is perseverance and focus. Keep your focus on that which you desire to accomplish, your championship, and continually discover ways to, and ways not to, achieve your goals. Fall down and/or get knocked down 10 times and get back up 11..., and in so doing learn, grow and move closer to your championship."

"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!"

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

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

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass."

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest
dreams.  Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."

"No one is in control of your happiness but you;  therefore,
you have the power to change anything about yourself or your
life that you want to change."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they
are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on
in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

"Start your goal setting process by creating a list of dreams.
Force yourself to write down one hundred things before you go
back and hone your list.  List places you want to visit,
experiences you want to have and toys you’d like to own.

List things you’d like to accomplish, skills you’d like to
acquire and the amount of money you’d like to make.

Detail the type of house you’d like to own, the business or
career you’d like to create and the lifestyle you’d like your
family to enjoy.

From this wonderful list pick the ten most exciting things and
add deadlines.

Next, go back and set intermediate or halfway goals for each.

Finally, list short-term goals that will contribute to the
accomplishment of the intermediate goals and ultimately the
long-term goals.

There is no limit to the number of goals that you set, just
make sure you list only those that you are truly committed to
attaining."

"Where many people go wrong in trying to reach their goals is
in constantly looking for the big hit, the home run, the magic
answer that suddenly transforms their dreams into reality.  The
problem is that the big hit never comes without a great deal
of little hits first. Success in most things comes not from
some gigantic stroke of fate, but from simple, incremental progress."

"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves
superior to others;  they do not seek to prove their value by
measuring themselves against a comparative standard.  Their
joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else."

"The great successful men of the world have used their
imaginations.   They think ahead and create their mental
picture, and the go to work materializing that 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."

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of
person who can live at peace with others."

"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."

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you
find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him,
it will not change you.  The only thing blame does is to keep
the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons
to explain your unhappiness or frustration.  You may succeed
in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him,
but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you
that is making you unhappy."

"If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to
shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find
individually fulfilling, then we can have no security:  we will
live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by
the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and
increasingly isolated by the changes round us."

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."

"Our intention creates our reality."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.  Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence."

"Commit to spending at least 3 hours a week on personal
development.  Read or listen to at least one book per month
in a related area.   You need to schedule time in your day
planner as if you are meeting with your most important
client.   Schedule this time away from the office, if
possible, to avoid distractions. Draw up a plan or list
of the investments you plan to make over the next 3-6
months.   Then stick with it!   Hold yourself accountable
for buying, reading, listening to, or watching the
materials you have chosen.   You are committed to excellence
and excited by the return you know your investment will
provide in the form of opportunity, promotion, and income."

I have made it a life-long habit to do at least three things
every day [no matter how small each is] that move me forward.
These are listed in the top right hand corner of my day planner.
On this list are a group of simple actions or goals for the day
that when completed will move me closer to my quest.

It might be sending out a thank-you letter, thereby building a
relationship.   It might be making a phone call to a specific
client either to sell something or to develop rapport.   It might
be to design an ad, write two pages of a new book, or call the
library to get information.   The tasks change every day; the only
thing that does not change is my resolve to accomplish at least
three of them each and every day.  Every one of them is positive.
Every one of them makes me feel good for having done it and it
will make you feel good as well.   Every one of them can be done
in a relatively short amount of time.   That means every week I
cross at least 21 items off a to-do list.   Now you know why I’m
always in such a good mood!   I even cross them off with a red
pen, it’s a power color, and a powerful feeling.   And, if for
any reason I do not get these three items done, and those days
are rare indeed, then the ones I did not complete get added on
to the next day’s total.

Winston Churchill once said, “There are plenty of good ideas if only they can be backed with the power of action.” Although goals and strategies are very important, the greatest plans in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans without action. Virgil understood this many centuries ago when he said, “Fortune favors the bold.”

No matter where you stand in your business, career or life [and no matter what challenges you now face] when you make the conscious decision to become a person of action [rather than being indecisive] you instantly turn the tide of life in your favor. Often, if you are mentally ready for action, opportunities will present themselves in the most unusual ways, and you will find yourself involved in new and interesting endeavors. Action has a way of increasing opportunity, while procrastination and inaction always inhibit success.

As Benjamin Disraeli said, “Action does not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

"It’s a fact that the top 5% of people in any industry make
it a habit to continually search for and learn everything
they can that will sharpen their skills in their particular
field.  Seek out the information in your field, and spend
whatever it takes to get it.  Become an expert in your
business before you even open the doors.  Understand the
pros and cons, and how to spend your time and money in the
most effective way, so you know what to expect, both good
and bad, from every aspect of the career or business you
have chosen.

"Patience is passion tamed."

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

"Patience is passion tamed."

"I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard
slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great
and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and
fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence.
Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can
proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing
will take the place of persistence."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have
the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily
defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life, and the tragic brevity of time."

"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.