Quotes

“People do not buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek

“What you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe.” – Simon Sinek

“If you hire people just because they can do a job they will work for your money. If you hire people who believe what you believe they will work for you with blood, sweat and tears.” – Simon Sinek

“The best investment you will ever make is in yourself.” – Grant Cardone

“All I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.” – Emerson

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.” – Warren Buffett

“Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success and endowed with the seeds of greatness.” – Zig Ziglar

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, man is capable of bringing into reality.” – Napoleon Hill

“Success is the sum of small steps, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“If you want to be an anomaly, you have to act like one.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“If you are clear with what you want, the world responds with clarity.” – Loretta Staples

“Life lived for tomorrow will always be a day away from being realized.” – Leo Buscaglia

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?” – Robert H. Schuller

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn

“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Probably the most honest self-made man ever was the one we heard say: ‘I got to the top the hard way – fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.’” – James Thom

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley

“It is impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.” – Zig Ziglar

“Your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.” – Nathanial Branden

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.” – Charles Schwab

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come ever more effective action.” – Peter F. Drucker

“The wise man questions himself, the fool others.” – Henri Arnold

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things that failures do not like to do. The successful person does not like doing them either, but his dislike is subordinated to the strength of his purpose.” – E. M. Gray

“Success in most things comes not from some gigantic stroke of fate, but from simple, incremental progress.” – Andrew Wood

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, he becomes inspired because he is working.” – Ernest Newman

“If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit.” – Michael Angier

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in.” – Michael Caine

“Do you know how to get a poker hot? Put it next to the fire. We are like the metal poker. If our environment is cold, we are cold. If it is hot, we are hot. If you want to grow, then spend time with great people; visit great places; attend great events; read great books, listen to great tapes.” – Elmer Towns

“The people with whom you habitually associate are called your ‘reference group,’ and these people determine as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life.” – Dr. David McClelland

“You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.” – Charles Jones

“We become the combined average of the five people we hang around the most.” – Jim Rohn

“Today is when everything that is going to happen from now on begins.” – Harvey Firestone Jr.

“You can be the ripest, juciest peach in the world, and there is still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” – Dita Von Teese

“If you do not design your own life plan, chances are you will fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

“Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.” – Michael Gerber

“We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you cannot measure something, you cannot understand it. If you cannot understand it, you cannot control it. If you cannot control it, you cannot improve it.” – H. James Harrington

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn

“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.” – Warren G. Lester

“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.” – Charles F. Kettering

“Character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.” – Jim Rohn

“Habit is the daily battleground of character.” – Dan Coats

“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.” – Alan Cohen

“Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.” – A. G. Buckham

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot

“If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?” – Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

“A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.” – Denis Waitley

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” – Louis Boone

“This world is owned by people who have cross bridges in their imagination before anyone else has.” – Albert Einstein

“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Never confuse the giftedness of a person with the person. Their gifts allow them to do amazing things but the person may be flawed, which will eventually cause harm.” – Fred Smith

“The potential that exists within us is limitless and largely untapped…when you think of limits, you create them.” – Robert J. Kriegal and Louis Patler

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order to learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“In order to distinguish yourself, get noticed, and advance your career, you need to do and be more. You have to rise above average. You can do this by asking more of yourself than others ask, expecting more from yourself than others expect, believing more in yourself than others believe, doing more than others think you should have to do, giving more than others think you should give, and helping more than others think you should help.” – Jack Welch

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“You can get everything in life you want if you help enough people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

“I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.” – George Washington Carver

“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job; your income is directly related to your philosophy, not the economy; and for things to change, you must change.” – J. Earl Shoaff