The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.

1

• "The distance is nothing it is only the first
  step that is difficult."
• Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, the Marquise du Deffand
  (1697-1780)
• French woman of letters

2

• Youre gonna have to serve somebody.
• Bob Dylan (1941 ) American music artist

3

• What we do in life, echoesin eternity.
• Maximus Decimus Meridias Roman generalfrom the
  film "Gladiator" (2000)

4

• Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger
  than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your
  sojourn.
• Marian Wright Edelman (1939 ) American
  activistfounder of the Children's Defense Fund

5

• They say things happen for a reason... You don't
  do them, they won't.
• Donavon Frankenreiter (1972 ) American music
  artist

6

• Achievement is talent plus preparation.
• Malcolm Gladwell (1963 ) Canadian journalist

7

• To worry is to add another hazard.
• Amelia Earhart (18971937)
• American aviator

8

• I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on
  adversity... If knocked down, I will get back up,
  every time.
• U.S. Navy SEALs

9

• Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
• Miguel de Cervantes (15471616)
• Spanish writer
• (as Sancho Panza in Don Quixote)

10

• "Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work
  at it, early and late, in season and out of
  season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never
  deferring for a single hour that which can be
  done just as well as now."
• P.T. Barnum (18101891)
• Showman and circus founder

11

• In every life we have some trouble, but when you
  worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be
  happy.
• Bobby McFerrin (1950 ) American music
  artist10-time Grammy Award winner

12

• "You are never really playing an opponent. You
  are playing yourself, your own highest standards,
  and when you reach your limits, that is real
  joy."
• Arthur Ashe (19431993)
• Professional tennis player

13

• "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands
  bring wealth."
• Proverbs 104

14

• What makes the dawn come up like thunder?
  Courage!
• Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

15

• Were there none who were discontented with what
  they have, the world would never reach for
  anything better.
• Florence Nightingale (18201910) English pioneer
  of modern nursing

16

• sell all good things at the price of
  labour.
• Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Italian painter,
  sculptor and inventor

17

• "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield!"
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
• English poet

18

• "The noblest search is the search for
  excellence."
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
• Former U.S. president

19

• "I only want people around me who can do the
  impossible."
• Elizabeth Arden (1878-1966)
• Canadian businesswoman, style mogul

20

• "Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give
  you a man who will make history."
• James Cash Penney (1875-1971)Founder of J.C.
  Penney stores

21

• "Punctuality is the politeness of kings."
• Louis XVIII (1755-1824)
• French king

22

• "People who are unable to motivate themselves
  must be content with mediocrity, no matter how
  impressive their other talents."
• Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
• Scottish industrialist philanthropist
• founder, Carnegie Steel Company

23

• "Do not think a man has done his full duty when
  he has performed the work assigned him. A man
  will never rise if he does only this. Promotion
  comes from exceptional work."Andrew Carnegie
  (18351919)Scottish industrialist
  philanthropist

24

• The thunderbolt falls on an inch of ground but
  the light of it fills the horizon.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• at the 1875 Centennial of April 19, 1775
• Inscribed on the bridge in Concord, MA, where the
  American militia confronted the British troops.

25

• "Just don't give up on trying to do what you
  really want to do. Where there is love and
  inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
• Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
• American jazz singer

26

• "Time is the most valuable thing a man can
  spend."
• Theophrastus (372 B.C.-287 B.C.)
• Greek philosopher

27

• "Service is the supreme commitment of life."
• Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
• 29th president of the United States

28

• "Never stop because you are afraid - you are
  never so likely to be wrong."
• Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)
• Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat

29

• "To get up each morning with the resolve to be
  happy...is to set our own conditions to the
  events of each day."
• Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958)
• American philosopher and author

30

• "Everything that irritates us about others can
  lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
• Carl Jung (1875-1961)Swiss psychiatrist

31

• "What we call luck, what we call chance, is what
  happens when preparation meets opportunity."
• Will Smith (1968 - )American actor

32

• "Honors and rewards fall tothose who show their
  goodqualities in action."
• Aristotle (384bc-322bc)Greek philosopher,
  physician scientist

33

• "If it is possible, it is doneif impossible, it
  shall be done."
• Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802)French
  statesman

34

• "Days and months are travelers of eternity.So
  are the years that pass by."
• Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)Japanese poet

35

• "All words are pegs to hang ideas on."
• Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)American clergyman

36

• "So be sure when you step.Step with care and
  great tactand remember thatLife's a Great
  Balancing Act."Theodor Seuss Geisel
  (1904-1991)from "Oh, the Places You'll
  Go!"American writer and illustrator

37

• "Never let the fear of striking outget in your
  way."
• Babe Ruth (1895-1948)American baseball
  playercurrently holds the No. 3 spot forthe
  most home runs of all time with 714

38

• "Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of
  need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by
  doing."
• Carlos Ghosn (1954 - )President and CEO Nissan
  Motor Co.

39

• "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
  Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
• Helen Keller (1880-1968)American humanitarian
  and advocate for the deaf and blind

40

• "Indecision and delays are the parents of
  failure."
• George Canning (1770-1827)British statesman

41

• "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the
  work."
• Aristotle (384-322 BC)Greek philosopher

42

• "Perseverance is the secret of success.
  Procrastination is the secret of failure."
• Milton Levine (1913 - )invented Uncle Milton's
  Ant Farm,more than 26 million sold in 50 years

43

• It's not enough what I did in the past - there
  is also the future.
• Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 ) Italian
  scientist, senatorNobel Prize winner

44

• Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The
  best comes from them.
• Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 )
• Italian scientist, senator, Nobel Prize winner

45

• "Strive for excellence, not perfection."
• H. Jackson Brown, Jr.American author, writes
  "Life's Little Instruction Book" series

46

• "There is no substitute for hard work."
• Thomas Edison (1847-1931)inventor, frequently
  worked more than 40 hours straight

47

• "The great end of life is not knowledge, but
  action."
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)English biologist
  educator

48

• "I must govern the clock, not be governed by
  it."
• Golda Meir (1898-1978)former Prime Minister of
  Israel

49

• "It is not necessary to do extraordinary things
  to get extraordinary results."
• Warren Buffett (1931 - )American stock market
  investorCEO Berkshire Hathaway

50

• "Small opportunities are often the beginning of
  great enterprises."
• Demosthenes (384-322bc)Greek orator

51

• "Human beings have an inalienable right to invent
  themselves."
• Germaine Greer (1939 - )Australian writer
  liberationist

52

• "Errors and mistakes are the necessary steps in
  the learning process once they have served their
  purpose, they should be forgotten."
• Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)Hall of Fame football
  coach

53

• "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear
  -- not absence of fear."
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)American writer humorist

54

• If people only knew how hard I work to gain my
  mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
• Michelangelo (14751564) Italian painter and
  sculptor

55

• The way to get started is to stop talking and
  start doing.
• Walt Disney (19011966) American entrepreneur
  entertainment icon

56

• "Little by little does the trick."
• Aesop (6th century B.C.)Greek fabulist

57

• "Difficulty is the excuse history never
  accepts."
• Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)American broadcast
  journalist

58

• "Get out there and take a risk."
• Paul Potts (1971 - )Welsh mobile phone salesman
  and winner of "Britain's Got Talent"

59

• "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've
  got."
• Janis Joplin (1943-1970)American singer

60

• "Management's job is to see the
• company not as it is ...
• but as it can become."
• John W. Teets (1933 - )chairman, Greyhound
  Corporation

61

• "It is what we make of what we have, not what we
  are given, that separates one person from
  another."
• Nelson Mandela (1918 - )South African statesman

62

• As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens
  another.
• Proverbs 2717

63

• Dare to be yourself.
• André Gide (18691951)
• French writer, Nobel Prize winner

64

• Pay no attention to appearing. Being is alone
  important.
• André Gide (18691951) French writer, Nobel
  Prize winner

65

• Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of
  Reason.
• Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American
  statesman, scientist, and printer

66

• I attribute my success to this I never gave or
  took an excuse.
• Florence Nightingale (18201910) English pioneer
  of modern nursing

67

• If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
• Ben Hogan (19121997)
• American golfer

68

• Failure is the condiment that gives success its
  flavor.
• Truman Capote (19241984)
• American writer

69

• It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
• Neil Young (1945 )
• Canadian music artist

70

• "Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise
  the bar a little higher each time you succeed."
• Mia Hamm (1972 - )American soccer player,
  Olympic gold medalist

71

• "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at
  hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to
  a focus."
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)Scottish-born
  American inventor

72

• "Go out and make yourself useful."
• Peter Drucker (1909-2005)Austrian-American
  author, management theorist

73

• "You must be the change you wish to see in the
  world."
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)Indian activist
  (freedom fighter)

74

• "Strength does not come from physical capacity.
  It comes from an indomitable will."
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
• Indian activist

75

• "The quality of a leader is reflected in the
  standards they set for themselves."
• Ray Kroc (1902-1984)founder of McDonald's
  Corporation

76

• "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."
• Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )first woman in
  European history
• to be elected prime minister

77

• "You can make a difference if you speak up and
  set your mind to changing things."
• A.G. Lafley (1947 )CEO of Proctor Gamble

78

• "Not all horses were born equal. A few were born
  to win."
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)American writer

79

• "I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot
  of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all.
  It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility
  for your future."
• Howard Schultz (1952 - )Chairman of Starbucks
  Coffee

80

• "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to
  power."
• William James (1842-1910)American psychologist
  and philosopher

81

• "Press on. Nothing can take theplace of
  persistence."
• Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)30th President of the
  United States

82

• "I dwell in possibility."
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)American poet

83

• "Manner is personality - the outward
  manifestation of one's innate character and
  attitude toward life."Emily Post
  (1872-1960)American author and etiquette expert

84

• "Certainly what one is, is of far greater
  importance than what one appears to be."
• Emily Post (18721960)American writer and
  etiquette expert

85

• "I am not afraid of the word tension."
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968)American
  civil rights leaderNobel Peace Prize winner

86

• The greater the tension, the greater is the
  potential.
• Carl Jung (18751961)
• Swiss psychiatrist

87

• Honor, courage, commitment these are our core
  values.
• U.S. Marine Corps

88

• What's the point of talking to anyone if you
  don't tell 'em what you think?
• Jon Krakauer (1952 )
• American writer, mountaineer
• Pulitzer Prize finalist

89

• "I don't know that there are any short cuts to
  doing a good job."
• Sandra Day O'Connor (1930 - )first woman to sit
  on the U.S. Supreme Court

90

• "Life all comes down to a few moments. This is
  one of them."
• Bud Fox, stockbrokerfrom the movie "Wall Street"
  (1987)

91

• "Think left and think right and think low and
  think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if
  only you try."
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)from "Oh, the
  Thinks You Can Think!"American writer and
  illustrator

92

• "The important thing is this to be able at any
  moment to sacrifice what we are for what we
  could become."
• Charles Du Bos (1882-1939)French literary critic

93

• "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do,
  and liking how you do it."
• Maya Angelou (1928 - )American poet, writer,
  historian, educator

94

• Champions keep playing until they get it
  right.
• Billie Jean King (1943 - )American tennis
  champion, first female athlete to earn 100,000
  in one year

95

• "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
• Colin L. Powell (1937 - )U.S. Army general,
  former U.S. Secretary of State

96

• A daring beginning is halfway to winning.
• Heinrich Heine (17971856)
• German poet

97

• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices
  acquired
• by age 18."
• Albert Einstein

98

• "Success consists of going from failure to
  failure without loss of enthusiasm."
• Winston Churchill

99

• "If you are going through hell, keep going."
• Sir Winston Churchill (18741965)English
  statesman

100

• People need to be reminded more than they need
  to be instructed.
• Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• English poet, critic and lexicographer

101

• "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are
  doomed if you don't try."
• Beverly Sills (1929 - )American opera singer

102

• "There is only one valid definition of business
  purpose to create a customer."
• Peter Drucker (1909-2005)Austrian-born
  management consultant and writer

103

• "Clear your mind of can't."
• Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)English critic
  poet

104

• "Every strike brings me closer to the next home
  run."
• Babe Ruth (1895-1948)American baseball
  playercurrently holds the No. 3 spot forthe
  most home runs of all time with 714

105

• "A mistake is simply another way of doing
  things."
• Katharine Graham (1917-2001)American publisher,
  Pulitzer Prize winner

106

• "To love what you do and feel that it matters --
  how could anything be more fun?"
• Katharine Graham (1917-2001)American publisher,
  Pulitzer Prize winner

107

• "If you really want something, and really work
  hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and
  never give up, you will find a way."
• Dr. Jane Goodall (1934 - )English ethologist,
  world's foremost authority on primatology

108

• "The task of a leader is to get his people from
  where they are to where they have not been."
• Henry Kissinger (1923 - )first foreign-born U.S.
  Secretary of StateNobel Peace Prize Laureate

109

• An acre of performance is worth a whole world of
  promise.
• William Dean Howells (1837-1920)American writer

110

• "In any moment of decision the best thing you can
  do is the right thing, the next best thing is the
  wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is
  nothing."
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)26th President of
  the United States

111

• "You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what
  you do after the mistakes that counts."
• Brandi Chastain (1968 - )American soccer player,
  Olympic champion

112

• "When you say "I will" with conviction, magic
  begins to happen."
• Wally Amos (1936 - )American entrepreneur,
  founder of Famous Amos Cookies

113

• "Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and
  work at it until it's done, and done right."
• Walt Disney (1901-1966)American entrepreneur,
  movie producer and showman

114

• "Write it on your heart that every day is the
  best day in the year."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)American writer
  and activist

115

• We must believe that we are gifted for
  something, and that this thing, at whatever cost,
  must be attained.
• Marie Curie (18671934) French physicist and
  chemisttwo-time Nobel Prize winner

116

• "The future doesn't just happen -- it's shaped by
  decisions."
• Paul Tagliabue (1940 - )NFL Commissioner since
  1989

117

• "Ability is what you're capable of doing.
  Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
  determines how well you do it."
• Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)American novelist
  and screenwriter

118

• "Experience is one thing youcan't get for
  nothing."
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Irish playwright

119

• "The aim of life is self-development. To realize
  one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us
  is here for."
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Irish writer critic

120

• "We are far too easily pleased."
• C.S. Lewis (18981963)Irish scholar and
  theologian

121

• The smallest good act today is the capture of a
  strategic point from which, a few months later,
  you may be able to go on to victories you never
  dreamed of.
• C.S. Lewis (18981963) Irish writer and scholar

122

• In this world, you must be a bit too kind in
  order to be kind enough.
• Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
  (16881763) French writer

123

• I love getting up in the morning. I clap my
  hands and say, This is gonna be a great day.
• the late Dicky Foxsports agent in the movie
  "Jerry Maguire"

124

• "Unless you love everybody, you can't sell
  anybody."
• the late Dicky Fox
• American sports agent
• from the film Jerry Maguire

125

• "Roll with the punches. Tomorrow is another
  day."
• the late great Dicky Foxoriginal sports
  agent(from the film Jerry Maguire)

126

• "The less I say the more my work gets done."
• Elton John (1947 )
• English music artist

127

• "To keep our faces toward change and behave like
  freespirits in the presence of fateis strength
  undefeatable."Helen Keller (1880-1968)American
  humanitarian,writer and advocate for the deaf
  and blind

128

• "I will study and prepare myself, and someday my
  chance will come."
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)16th President of the
  United States

129

• "The most important thing in communication is to
  hear what isn't being said."
• Peter Drucker (1909-2005)Austrian-American
  economist and author

130

• "I think luck is the sense to recognize an
  opportunity and the ability to take advantage of
  it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab
  his chancesgets on."
• Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)Polish-born American
  film producer

131

• "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
  objections must be first overcome."
• Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)English critic poet

132

• "All things are possible until they are proved
  impossible -- and even the impossible may only be
  so, as of now."
• Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)American writer and
  missionaryfirst woman to win the Nobel Prize for
  Literature

133

• "Go at life every day with passion and
  enthusiasm and when challenges arrive, simply
  do not give up."Rick Wagoner (1953 - )Chairman
  and CEO, General Motors

134

• Passion persuades.
• Anita Roddick (19422007)
• English entrepreneur, activist, founder of
• The Body Shop

135

• I am aware that success is more than a good
  idea.
• Anita Roddick (19422007) English entrepreneur
  and activistfounder of The Body Shop

136

• "Civility costs nothing, and buys everything."
• Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)English writer
  

137

• "The worth of a life is not determined by a
  single failure or a solitary success."Kevin
  Kline (1947 - )American actor, as William
  Hundert in "The Emperor's Club" (2002)

138

• "Failure is impossible."
• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
• Activist for women's suffrage

139

• If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best
  way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
  
• George Lucas (1944 ) American film director,
  producer and screenwriter

140

• Lets drink to the hard working peopleLets drink
  to the salt of the earth
• Mick Jagger (1943 ) English music artist

141

• "To play it safe is not to play."
• Robert Altman (1925-2006)
• Award-winning film director

142

• "One day in retrospect, the years of struggle
  will strike you as the most beautiful."
• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
• Austrian psychoanalyst

143

• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in
  circumstances...
• Strong men believe in cause and effect.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
• American writer, activist

144

• "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."
• English Proverb

145

• "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives
  are connected by a thousand invisible threadsour
  actions run as causes and return to us as
  results."
• Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)American novelist
  and father of four

146

• "The difference between a successful person and
  others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
  knowledge, but rather in alack of will."
• Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)Hall of Fame football
  coach

147

• Be yourself, try your best, and never be afraid
  to dream.
• Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986)American teacher
  and astronaut

148

• "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your
  balance, you must keep moving."
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)German-American
  physicist

149

• If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk.
  If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep
  moving.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American
  civil rights leaderNobel Peace Prize winner

150

• Remember always that you have not only the right
  to be an individual you have an obligation to be
  one.
• Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962) American
  humanitarian and UN diplomat

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• "Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for
  yourself. Face the truth."
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)New Zealand-born
  British short story writer

153

• "If there is no struggle, there is
• no progress."
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
• American civil rights leader

154

• "There's always stuff to work on. You're never
  there."
• Tiger Woods (1975 )
• American professional golfer, world's No. 1
  player

155

• "Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat
  and struggle for."
• Marian Wright Edelman (1939 )American
  activist,founder of the Children's Defense Fund
  

156

• Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but
  don't count on them.
• Marian Wright Edelman (1939 )
• American activist
• founder of the Children's Defense Fund

157

• "I just like to smile.Smiling's my favorite."
• Buddy the Elffrom the film, Elf (2003)played by
  Will Ferrell

158

• Merry Today.
• Sam Parker (1965 ) Cofounder of GiveMore

159

• "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the
  fruit is?"
• Frank Scully (1892-1964)American newspaper
  columnist

160

• "Optimism is essential."
• Jeff Bezos (1964 - )CEO and cofounder of
  Amazon.com

161

• "The future depends entirely on what each of us
  does every day."
• Gloria Steinem (1944 - )American journalist,
  founder of Ms. Magazine

162

• "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief
  essentials for success in life."
• John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
• American oil magnate and philanthropist

163

• "Problems are only opportunitiesin work
  clothes."
• Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)American industrialist

164

• "Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing
  is not enough we must do. "
• Johann Goethe (1749-1832)German dramatist, poet
  novelist

165

• "Nothing is worth more than this day."
• Johann Goethe (17491832)
• German dramatist and poet

166

• "Every chance meeting is an appointment."
• Pablo Neruda (19041973)
• Chilean poet and diplomat

167

• "The man who wins is theman who thinks he can."
• Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)American
  minister, founder of Guideposts magazine

168

• "The way to get started is to stop talking and
  start doing."
• Walt Disney (1901-1966)American entrepreneur,
  movie producer and showman

169

• "I like what is in work - the chance to find
  yourself."
• Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)Polish-born English
  novelist

170

• "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves,
  and sharpens our skill."
• Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)British philosopher
  and statesman

171

• "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our
  minds what we are going to make of our lives,
  then work hard toward that goal, we never
  lose..."Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)40th
  President of the United States

172

• "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful.If
  it's bad, it's experience."
• Victoria Holt (1906-1993)best-selling British
  novelist

173

• "We all have ability. The difference is how we
  use it."
• Stevie Wonder (1950 - )
• Singer and musician

174

• The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
• Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
• TV talk show host and entrepreneur

175

• "You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you
  inhibit yourself."
• Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )TV host and producer,
  publisher, philanthropist

176

• "You never know what youcan do till you try."
• English Proverb

177

• "The distance is nothing it is only the first
  step that is difficult."
• Marie de Vichy-Chamrond,the Marquise du Deffand
  (1697-1780)French woman of letters

178

• "Why not the best?"
• Jimmy Carter (1924 - )39th president of the
  United States

179

• There is no substitute for knowledge.
• W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)American management
  theorist

180

• "Nothing else can quite substitute for a few
  well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free-- and worth a fortune."
• Sam Walton (1918-1992)founder of Wal-Mart

181

• "High expectations are the key to everything."
• Sam Walton (1918-1992)
• Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club

182

• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can
  fire everybody in the company from the chairman
  on down, simply by spending his money somewhere
  else.
• Sam Walton (19181992) American retailer,
  founder of Wal-Mart

183

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have
  an enemy.
• E.B. White (18991985) American writer

184

• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your
  mirror be polished?
• Rumi (12071273)
• Persian poet and philosopher

185

• "Don't find fault, find a remedy."
• Henry Ford (1863-1947)industrialist, inventor

186

• "You can't measure success if you have never
  failed."
• Steffi Graf (1969 - )German tennis champion,
  Olympic gold medalist

187

• "While the other guy's sleeping,
• I'm working. While the other
• guy's eatin, I'm working."
• Will Smith (1968- )
• American actor

188

• "If you stay ready,you ain't gotta get ready."
• Will Smith (1968 )American producer, actor,
  music artist

189

• "Life is luck, make it."
• Mother Teresa (19101997)Macedonian missionary,
  Nobel Peace Prize winner

190

• Life is an opportunity, avail it.
• Mother Teresa (19101997)
• Macedonian missionary
• Nobel Peace Prize winner

191

• "We work to become, not to acquire."
• Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)American
  businessperson, writer and publisher

192

• "What we think, we become."
• Buddha

193

• "I have learned to live each day as it comes,
  and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow."
• Dorothy Dix (1861-1951)at the time of her death,
  America's highest-paid and most widely read
  female journalist

194

• "I no longer want to work for money, but simply
  for the joy of the work itself."John Mackey
  (1954 - )from a memo to his employeesfounder
  and CEO of Whole Foods Markets

195

• "Action springs not from thought, but from a
  readiness for responsibility."
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)German theologian

196

• Invest yourself entirely in the here and now.
• Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 ) Vietnamese scholar and
  activist

197

• The mind is the ground of everything.
• Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 ) Vietnamese scholar and
  activist

198

• Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is
  by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
• Sarah Bernhardt (18441923) French actress and
  writer

199

• I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and
  commitment' to be just words I expect them to
  frame the way that we live and act.
• Charles C. Krulak (1942 ) 31st Commandant of
  the U.S. Marine Corps

200

• The best place to find a helping hand is at the
  end of your own arm.
• Swedish Proverb

201

• "Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly
  can do, he will never do all that he can."
• Henry Drummond (1851-1897)Scottish theologist
  and scientist

202

• "I was taught that the way of progress is neither
  swift nor easy."
• Marie Curie (1867-1934)Polish-born French
  chemist,
• Nobel Prize laureate

203

• "I would like to do whatever it is that presses
  the essence from the hour."
• Mary Oliver (1935 - )American poet

204

• "Work as if you were to live 100 years."
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)American statesman,
  scientist and author

205

• "My mind is my biggest asset.I expect to win
  every tournament I play."
• Tiger Woods (1975 - )American golf champion

206

• The great thing about tomorrow? I can be better
  tomorrow than I am today.
• Tiger Woods (1975 )
• American professional golfer

207

• "No time like the present."
• Mary de la Riviere Manley (1663-1724)English
  novelist and playwright

208

• "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing
  well."
• English Proverb

209

• "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives
  are connected by a thousand invisible threads
  our actions run as causes and return to us as
  results."
• Herman Melville (1819-1891)American novelist

210

• "Use your good judgment in all situations."
• Nordstrom Employee Handbook Rule 1(the only
  rule)

211

• "It has been my philosophy of life that
  difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)Russian-American science
  fiction author

212

• "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
• English proverb

213

• "The best way to make your dreams come true is to
  wake up."
• Paul Valéry (1871-1945)French poet and critic

214

• "There are many truths of which the full meaning
  cannot be realized until personal experience has
  brought it home."
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)English economist
  philosopher

215

• "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends
  than that good men should look on and do
  nothing."
• John Stuart Mill (18061873)English economist
  and philosopher

216

• "There is no comparison between that which is
  lost by not succeeding and that which islost by
  not trying."
• Francis Bacon (1561-1626)British statesman
  philosopher

217

• "Always do right. That will gratify some of the
  people, and astonish the rest."
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)American writer

218

• "Strive for perfection in everything. Take the
  best that exists and make it better. If it
  doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly
  right or good enough."
• Henry Royce (1863-1933)English industrialist,
  co-founder of Rolls-Royce

219

• "The best way to predict the future is to create
  it."
• Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)Austrian-American
  economist and author

220

• "You can either take action or you can hang back
  and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but
  they are so unpredictable."
• Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)Austrian-American
  economist and author

221

• "Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is
  managed, nothing else can be managed."
• Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)Austrian-American
  economist and author

222

• The trouble with miracles is not, after all,
  that they happen rarely it is that one cannot
  rely on them.
• Peter Drucker (19092005)
• Austrian-American writer and management theorist

223

• If it's not broke, fix it anyway.
• Merv Griffin (1925 - 2007)American businessman
  and entertainer

224

• "There are risks and costs to a program of
  action. But they are far less than the long-range
  risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
• John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th president of
  the U.S.

225

• "My philosophy is that not only are you
  responsible for your life, but doing the best at
  this moment puts you in the best place for the
  next moment."
• Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )TV host and producer,
  publisher, philanthropist

226

• "Common sense is genius dressed in its working
  clothes."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)American essayist
  and poet

227

• "Quality is not an act.
• It is a habit."
• Aristotle (384bc-322bc)Greek philosopher,
  physician scientist

228

• "Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with
  it."
• Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)British prime
  minister during WWII

229

• "Do or do not, there is no try."
• Yoda Jedi master, from the "Star Wars" series

230

• "Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You
  gotta go into life brave."
• Billy Joel (1949 - )American singer and
  songwriter

231

• "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
  outright exposure. The fearful are caught as
  often as the bold."
• Helen Keller (1880-1968)American
  humanitarian,writer and advocate for the deaf
  and blind

232

• "Seize the day."
• Horace (65 B.C. - 8 B.C.)Roman poet

233

• "Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good
  is ever done by hesitation."
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)English biologist
  educator

234

• "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five
  minutes to ruin it. If you think about that,
  you'll do things differently."
• Warren Buffett (1931 - )American stock market
  investor, CEO Berkshire Hathaway

235

• "Luck? I've never banked on it... Luck to me is
  something else hard work and realizing what is
  opportunity and what isn't."
• Lucille Ball (1911-1989)American comedienne and
  actress

236

• "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
• Sun Tzu (500-320 B.C.)writings of Chinese
  philosophers

237

• "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a
  single step."
• Lao Tzu (604 BC531 BC)Chinese philosopher

238

• "Persistent people begin their success where
  others end in failure."
• Edward Eggleston (1837-1902)American clergyman,
  author

239

• "If you have accomplished all that you have
  planned for yourself, you have not planned
  enough."
• Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)
• Unitarian clergyman and writer

240

• "Be not afraid of greatness some are born great,
  some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
  thrust upon 'em."
• William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)English
  playwright and poet

241

• "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage
  is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
  'I will try again tomorrow.'"
• Mary Anne Radmacher (1957 - )American artist

242

• "Begin each day as if it were on purpose."
• Mary Anne Radmacher (1957 - )American artist and
  writer

243

• "It is never too late to be what you might have
  been."
• Mary Ann Evens (1819-1880)
• Wrote as "George Eliot"
• English author

244

• "Well done is better than well said."
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)American statesman,
  writer, scientist printer

245

• "If you do a job, do it right or there is no
  point."
• Cal Ripken, Jr. (1960 - )Hall of Fame shortstop
  and third baseman

246

• "Life isn't just about what you can have it's
  about what you have to give."
• Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )TV host and producer,
  publisher, philanthropist

247

• "It is never too late to learn."
• Roger l'Estrange (1616-1704)English journalist
  and pamphleteer

248

• "I court exertion. I love work."
• Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer and
  humorist

249

• "If I persist, if I continue to try, if I
  continue to charge forward, I will succeed."
• Og Mandino (1923-1996) American writer and sales
  guru

250

• "This is the time. This is the place. I am the
  man. I will act now."
• Og Mandino (19231996)Writer and sales guru

251

• "One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity
  provides no protection."
• Madeleine Kunin (1933- )Swiss-American diplomat
  and politician

252

• "Generosity is more fun.That's the key."
• Robert Thurman (1941 )American scholar and
  Buddhist monk

253

• "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965)British prime
  minister during WWII

254

• "You have to learn the rules of the game. And
  then you have to play better than anyone else."
• Dianne Feinstein (1933 - )U.S. Senator, first
  woman elected mayor of San Francisco

255

• "It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to
  accept anything but the best, you very often get
  it."
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)British
  writerhighest-paid author in the world during
  the 1930s

256

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents
  moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of
  habit.
• W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)British
  writerhighest paid author in the world during
  the 1930s

257

• Mediocre people have an answer for everything
  and are astonished at nothing.
• Eugene Delacroix (17981863)French artist

258

• "When you combine passion and hard work, then
  success is always possible."
• Arte Moreno (1946 - )owner of the Los Angeles
  Angels, first Hispanic owner of a major league
  sports team

259

• "Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.
  You have no security unless you live bravely,
  excitingly, imaginatively."
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)U.N. diplomat,
  humanitarian, U.S. First Lady

260

• Failure is only an opportunity to begin again
  more intelligently.
• Henry Ford (1863-1947)American industrialist,
  inventor

261

• "You don't just deal with adversity. You use it
  to propel you forward."
• Erik Weihenmayer (1968 - )first blind person to
  summit Mt. Everest

262

• "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter
  of choice it's not a thing to be waited for, but
  a thing to be achieved."
• William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)U.S.
  congressman, secretary of state,presidential
  nominee

263

• "I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it
  had ceased to be one."
• Mark Twain (1835-1910 )American writer

264

• "Never confuse a single defeat with a final
  defeat."
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) American writer

265

• "To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a
  goal, is the secret of success."
• Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)Russian ballerina

266

• The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit.
  The second is to look things in the face and know
  them for what they are.
• Marcus Aurelius (121180) Roman emperor and
  philosopher

267

• Do not love sleep or you will grow poor stay
  awake and you will have food to spare.
• Proverbs 2013

268

• A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but
  delights in airing his own opinions.
• Proverbs 182

269

• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for
  certainty.
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (18191880)
  English writer

270

• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and
  look around once in a while, you could miss it.
• Ferris Bueller American studentfrom the film
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

271

• When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we
  are not men, but beasts.
• M.F.K. Fisher (19081992) American writer

272

• As we express our gratitude, we must never
  forget that the highest appreciation is not to
  utter words, but to live by them.
• John F. Kennedy (19171963) 35th president of
  the United States

273

• Where one door is shut, another is opened.
• Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish writer

274

• Take your heart to work, and ask the most and
  best of everybody else too.
• Meryl Streep (1949 ) American actressAcademy
  Award winner

275

• "You don't do things right once in a while. You
  do them right all the time."
• Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)Hall of Fame football
  coach

276

• "In three words I can sum up everything I've
  learned about life It goes on."
• Robert Frost (1874-1963) American writer poet

277

• "Today is a new day.
• You will get out of it
• just what you put into it..."
• Mary Pickford (1893-1979)Canadian actress,
  Academy Award winnercofounder of United Artists

278

• "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)German-born American
  physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

279

• "Believe you can, and you can."
• Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)American writer
  and minister, founder of "Guideposts" magazine

280

• "Everything comes to him who hustles while he
  waits."
• Thomas Edison (1847-1931)inventor, salesman,
  frequently workedmore than 40 hours straight

281

• "He who believes is strong he who doubts is
  weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
• James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)American
  minister scholar

282

• "If they give you ruled paper, write the other
  way."
• Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)Spanish poet

283

• "There are no secrets to success. It is the
  result of preparation, hard work and learning
  from failure."
• Colin L. Powell (1937 - )former U.S. Secretary
  of Stateand chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

284

• "Excellence is not an exception, it is a
  prevailing attitude."
• Colin L. Powell (1937 - )former U.S. Secretary
  of State, Army General

285

• "Think of yourself as on the threshold of
  unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious
  life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
• Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)Scottish
  industrialist philanthropistfounder, Carnegie
  Steel Company

286

• "There is only one thing that makes a dream
  impossible to achieve the fear of failure."
• Paulo Coelho (1947 - ), from "The
  Alchemist"Brazilian writer

287

• "Never measure the height of a mountain until you
  have reached the top. Then you will see how low
  it was."
• Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)Secretary General of
  the United NationsNobel Prize laureate

288

• "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
• George "Papa Bear" Halas (1895-1983)American
  football pioneer, coach, owner player

289

• "You can't build a reputation on what you are
  going to do."
• Henry Ford (1863-1947)American industrialist,
  inventor

290

• "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot
  and hang on."
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)32nd
  president of the United States

291

• "We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just
  a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes
  up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared,
  discovering we have the strength to stare it
  down."
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)U.N. diplomat,
  humanitarian, U.S. first lady

292

• "If we are to be a really great people, we must
  strive in good faith to play a great part in the
  world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All
  that we can determine for ourselves is whether we
  shall meet them well or ill."
• Theodore Roosevelt (18581919)26th president of
  the United States

293

• "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
• Walt Disney (1901-1966)American entrepreneur,
  movie producer and showman

294

• "If everyone is thinking alike then somebody
  isn't thinking."
• George S. Patton (1885-1945)World War II general

295

• "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them
  what to do and they will surprise you with their
  ingenuity."
• George S. Patton (1885-1945)U.S. Army general
  during WWII

296

• "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the
  exhilaration of victory."
• George Patton (1885-1945)
• American general, nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"

297

• "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my
  goal my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
• Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)French chemist
  biologistdeveloped pasteurization and
  foundedmodern microbiology

298

• "Chance favors only the
• prepared mind."
• Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
• French chemist

299

• "Perfection of character is this to live each
  day as if it were your last, without frenzy,
  without apathy, without pretence."
• Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
• Roman emperor and philosopher

300

• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not
  fitted by nature to bear.
• Marcus Aurelius (121180) Roman emperor,
  philosopher

301

• The people at the very top don't work just
  harder or even much harder than everyone else.
  They work much, much harder.
• Malcolm Gladwell (1963 - ) Canadian journalist

302

• Practice isn't the thing you do once you're
  good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
  
• Malcolm Gladwell (1963 ) Canadian journalist

303

• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no
  trifle.
• Michelangelo (14751564) Italian painter and
  sculptor

304

• "A man should take away not only unnecessary
  acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for thus
  superfluous acts will not follow after."Marcus
  Aurelius Antoninus (121180)Roman emperor

305

• "There is no path. The path is made by
  walking."
• Antonio Machado (18751939)Spanish poet

306

• "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
  but by the seeds you plant."
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)Scottish
  novelist and poet

307

• "The secret of joy in work is contained in one
  word - excellence. To know how to do something
  well is to enjoy it."
• Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)American writer and
  missionaryfirst woman to win the Nobel Prize for
  Literature

308

• "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow
  is ours to win or to lose."
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)36th President of
  the United States

309

• "You accomplish victory step by step, not by
  leaps and bounds."
• Lyn St. James (1947 - )American race car
  driversecond woman in history to race in the
  Indianapolis 500and mother of one

310

• "Someone's got to go out there and love
  people."
• Diana, Princess of Wales (19611997)Humanitarian,
  member of the British royal family

311

• "Be what you are. Give what is yours to give.
  Have style. Dare."
• Stanley Kunitz (1905 - 2006) American poet

312

• "If you know where it's going, it's not worth
  doing."Frank Gehry (1929 - )Canadian-American
  architect, selected to design the performing
  arts center at the World Trade Center site

313

• "Do your work with all your heart and you will
  succeed."
• Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)American publisher and
  businessperson

314

• "If you want work well done, select a busy man -
  the other kind has no time."
• Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)American publisher
  and writer

315

• "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what
  he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. "
• John Ruskin (1819-1900)English art critic
  social theorist

316

• "The fruits of life fall into the hands of those
  who climb the tree and pick them."
• Earl Tupper (1907-1983)American business
  person,Tupperware inventor

317

• It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if
  you wish to find your particular success in life,
  it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.
• Brownie Wise (19131992) American
  businesswomanTupperware catalyst circa 1950s

318

• The value of a man should be seen in what he
  gives and not in what he is able to receive.
• Albert Einstein (18791955)Swiss physicist

319

• For myself I am an optimist it does not seem
  to be much use being anything else...
• Sir Winston Churchill (18741965)British prime
  minister during WWII

320

• I hold it that a little rebellion now and then
  is a good thing...
• Thomas Jefferson (17431826) 3rd president of
  the United Statesprincipal author of the
  Declaration of Independence

321

• How much pain have cost us the evils which have
  never happened!
• Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
• 3rd president of the United States

322

• "Vitality shows not only in the ability to
  persist, but in the ability to start over."
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)American novelist
  

323

• "Success is often achieved by those who don't
  know that failure is inevitable."
• Coco Chanel (1883-1971)French fashion designer
  businessperson

324

• "The time is always right to do what is right."
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)civil rights
  leader

325

• "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 (1807-1882)American
  poet

326

• You may have a fresh start any moment you
  choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is
  not the falling d