APRIL
4/2/11
Before you run, check to see if the bulldog has teeth.
-Les Brown
4/3/11
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
-Proverbs 2:9-11
4/4/11
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-Vince Lombardi
4/5/11
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-Dale Carnegie
4/6/11
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
4/9/11
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill
4/10/11
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Alva Edison
4/11/11
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
-Benjamin Disraeli
4/12/11
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4/13/11
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams
4/16/11
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
-John Dewey
4/17/11
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Alva Edison
4/18/11
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
-C.S. Lewis
4/19/11
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.-Louis Pasteur
4/20/11
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lee Holz
4/23/11
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
-Marian Wright Edelman
4/24/11
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
-Jim Elliot
4/25/11
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison
4/26/11
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
4/27/11
Imagination is more important than knowledge…
-Albert Einstein
4/30/11
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
MARCH
3/1/12
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
-Herbert B. Swope
3/2/12
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.
-Katherine Mansfield
3/5/12
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Demosthenes
3/6/12
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
-Thomas A. Edison
3/7/12
If you’re trying to take a room full of people by surprise, it’s a lot easier to hit your targets if you don’t yell going through the door.
-Lois McMaster Bujold
3/8/12
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-Charles Dickens
3/9/12
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, “Certainly I can!” Then get busy and find out how to do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt
3/12/12
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
-Charles Caleb Colton
3/13 /12
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
-Elizabeth I
3/14/12
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
-Holly Lisle
3/15/12
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-Stephen Covey
3/16/12
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
-Proverbs 2:5-7
3/19 /12
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford
3/20/12
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
3/21 /12
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 been opened for us.
-Helen Keller
3/21/12
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
-Pierre Corneille
3/22/12
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
-Tommy Lasorda
3/23/12
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
-C.S. Lewis
3/26/12
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-Anita Roddick
3/27 /12
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
-John Wesley
3/28/12
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
-Arnold Palmer
3/29/12
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
-Zig Ziglar
3/30/12
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
FEBRUARY
2/29/12
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
-Vince Lombardi
2/28/12
“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.”
-Joe Paterno
2/27/12
“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
-Peter Drucker
2/24/12
“Three Rules of Work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
-Albert Einstein
2/23/12
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
-Carl Sandburg
2/22/12
“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
-Vince Lombardi
2/21/12
“Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.”
-David Seabury
2/20/12
“The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.”
-Jerry Gillies
2/17/12
“There are no gains without pains.”
-Benjamin Franklin
2/16/12
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably wind up somewhere else.”
-Laurence J. Peter
2/15/12
“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. Besides, most often a good reputation follows a great character.”
-John Wooden
2/14/12
“Like what you do. If you don’t like it, do something else.”
-Paul Harvey
2/13/12
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
2/10/12
“Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
-Frederick Wilcox
2/9/12
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.”
-Nido Qubein
2/8/12
“Never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
-Harriet Beecher Stow
2/7/12
“The thing that contributes to anyone reaching the goal he wants is simply wanting that goal badly enough.”
-Charles E. Wilson
2/6/12
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
2/3/12
“I always try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
-John D. Rockefeller
2/2/12
“Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.”
-Albert Einstein
2/1/12
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
-Proverbs 3:5-6
JANUARY
1/31/12
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great
idea that inspires no one.
-Mary Kay Ash
1/30/12
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours
- it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of
it. This is the day your life really begins.
-Bob Moawad
1/27/12
All mankind is divided into three groups: those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move.
-Benjamin Franklin
1/26/12
Hard work and togetherness…they go hand in hand. You need the hard work
because it’s such a tough atmosphere… to win week in and week out. You need
togetherness because you don’t always win, and you gotta hang tough together.
-Tony Dungy
1/25/12
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The
leader adjusts the sails.
-John Maxwell
1/24/12
One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.
- Wayne Gretzky
1/23/12
Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.
-Muhammad Ali
1/20/12
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that
we can succeed.
-Nelson Boswell
1/19/12
For with God all things are possible.
-Mark 10:27
1/18/12
Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.
-Irene Rosenfeld
1/17/12
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
1/16/12
Hard work has made it easy. That is mysecret. That is why I win.
-Nadia Comaneci
1/13/12
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-David Lloyd George
1/12/12
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
-Thomas Jefferson
1/11/12
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
-Peter Drucker
1/10/12
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
-John W. Roper
1/9/12
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
-Larry Bird
1/6/12
You’ll never be a loser until you quit trying.
-Mike Ditka
1/5/12
Never despair, keep pushing on!
-Sir Thomas Lipton
1/4/12
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
-Zig Ziglar
1/3/12
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson
DECEMBER
12/30/11
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
12/29/11
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
-Charles Swindoll
12/28/11
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
-Thomas Jefferson
12/27/11
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
-Henry Ford
12/26/11
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
-Stephen Covey
12/23/11
For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
-Isaiah 9:5-7
12/22/11
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
-John Quincy Adams
12/21/11
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
-Vince Lombardi
12/20/11
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
-Peter Drucker
12/19/11
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
- Michael Altshuler
12/16/11
He that riseth late must trot all day and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
-Benjamin Franklin
12/15/11
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
12/14/11
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing it to the end.
-Abraham Lincoln
12/13/11
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
-Richard Cech
12/12/11
My flesh and my heart fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
-Psalms 73:26
12/9/11
Before you run, check to see if the bulldog has teeth.
-Les Brown
12/8/11
Never say more than is necessary.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
12/7/11
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.
-Tommy Lasorda
12/6/11
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
-Winston Churchill
12/5/11
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
-Orville Wright
12/2/11
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein
12/1/11
Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God.
-William Carey, Missionary to India
NOVEMBER
11/30/11
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
-Henry Ford
11/29/11
Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.
-Mary Kay Ash
11/28/11
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
-Vince Lombardi
11/25/11
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
-H.U. Westermayer
11/24/11
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
-Brian Tracy
11/23/11
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
11/22/11
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
-Thomas Jefferson
11/21/11
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
11/18/11
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lee Holz
11/17/11
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
11/16/11
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
-Charles R. Swindoll
11/15/11
The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.
-John Baines
11/14/11
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.
-Robb Sagendorph
11/11/11
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
-Thurgood Marshall
11/10/11
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.
-Zig Ziglar
11/9/11
I have never been contained except that which I made the prison.
-Mari Evans
11/8/11
There are at least two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control- your mind and your mouth.
-Molefi Asante
11/7/11
Successful people succeed because they learn from their failures.
-Bettina Flores
11/4/11
Lord, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
-Ruby Dee
11/3/11
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
-Tim McCarver
11/2/11
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
-Frank Tyger
11/1/11
Never make a complicated thing simple or simple things complicated.
-Ronny Kersey
OCTOBER
10/31/11
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
-Joe Paterno
10/28/11
All mankind is divided into three groups: those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move.”
-Benjamin Franklin
10/27/11
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, “Make me feel important.” Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
-Mary Kay Ash
10/26/11
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.
-Psalm 27:14
10/25/11
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right — but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.
-Peter Drucker
10/24/11
When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell
10/21/11
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
-Vince Lombardi
10/20/11
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
-Helen Keller
10/19/11
“Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.”
-Proverbs 10:13
10/18/11
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
-Martha Washington
10/17/11
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
-Charles Spurgeon
10/14/11
“Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.”
-General George S. Patton
10/13/11
“A bold onset is half the battle.”
-Giuseppe Garibaldi
10/12/11
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts have good understanding. To Him belongs eternal praise.”
-Psalm 111:9-10
10/11/11
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
-Beverly Sills
10/10/11
“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
10/7/11
“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.”
-Benjamin Disraeli
10/6/11
“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”
-Althea
10/5/11
“Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse…”
-Proverbs 2:12
10/4/11
“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.”
-Maurice
10/3/11
“If we all did things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.’
-Thomas A. Edison