Do the hard jobs first...

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
-William Arthur Ward

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
-Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear...

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

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
-Judith M. Knowlton

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
-Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself...

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Charles Kettering

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

To laugh often and much...

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Satisfaction lies in the effort...

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
-Unknown Author

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
-Oprah Winfrey

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
-Mahatma Gandhi

People rarely succeed unless...

As so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.
-Joseph Weizenbaum

Do nothing in anxiety, in quietness and confidence lies your strength.
-Author Unknown

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-Dale Carnegie

An optimist is...

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
-Albert Schweitzer

The gods cannot help those who don't seize opportunities.
-Confucius 500 BC

Forget yourself...

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood and the measure of civilization.
-Calvin Coolidge

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

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.
-Dale Carnegie

Praise a man...

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
-Elbert Hubbard

Praise a man for what he does well, then gradually help him with his shortcomings. That method will work in an office, in a factory, in one's home, with wife, children, parents, with almost anyone in the world.
-Dale Carnegie

The human spirit...

Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
- Catherine Ponder

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- C. C. Scott

To think is easy...

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
- Johann von Goethe

Life must be measured by thought and action, not by time.
- John Lubbock, Conductor

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
- John C. Maxwell

We choose our joys...

Where ever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

Destiny is not a matter of chance...

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.
-William Jennings Bryan

In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
- Dale Carnegie

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine

It is in pardoning...

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- Saint Francis of Assisi

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov

If a window of opportunity appears...

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
-Thomas J. Peters

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds."
-Earl Nightingale

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-Emily Dickinson

Take a chance!

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
-Richard DeVos

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
-Dale Carnegie

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

Courage is...

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-Winston Churchill

Every burden is a blessing.
-Robert H. Schuller

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have some idea you believe in...

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
-Kahlil Gibran

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
-Dale Carnegie

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
-Norman Vincent Peale

My advice is...

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

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

My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it. You can't like it until you obtain expertise in that work. And once you are an expert, it's a pleasure.
-Milton Garland

If you think you can do it, you can...

If you think you can do it, you can. If you believe you can do it, you will. If you trust you can do it, you will make a difference.
-Catherine Ellis

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
-Mae West

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
-Arnold H. Glasgow