Wherever there is danger...

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas A. Edison

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
- Earl Nightingale

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

Any coward can fight

Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me a man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
- George Elliot

The person who goes farthest is...

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
- Barbara De Angelis

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.
- Hugh Allen

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie

Reduce Nervousness.

“The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts to work the minute you're born, and never stops until you get up to speak in public.”
- John Mason Brown

To significantly reduce nervousness follow the three E's:

1. Earned the right to speak on the topic through experience or research
2. Excited to talk about the topic
3. Eager to share your experience or research with the audience

Do not follow where the path may lead...

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right...
-Martin Luther

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
-Lee Iacocca

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Harold R. McAlindon

You must be...

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
-Cicero

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Ghandi

Appreciation can make a day...

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
- Margaret Atwood

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
- Margaret Cousins

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Enthusiasm releases...

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus T. Cicero

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

The quality of a leader is...

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
- Bill Gates

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Elliot

Name Memory Techniques

“Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
- Dale Carnegie

No single action conveys the message "you're important" as effectively as remembering another person's name.

Here are some steps you might take to help ensure name recollection:

1. Hear and understand the name
2. Create a mind picture linking the name with the person
3. Add details about the person to the mind picture
4. Repeat the name in conversation

Be more concerned...

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
- Tryon Edwards

Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment-- the most priceless of human treasures--are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen--who make *good* things happen--in the world around them.
- Joe Klock

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.
- Dale Carnegie

The entrepreneur is our visionary...

The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.
-Michael Gerber

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
-Jeff Bezos

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
-Dale Carnegie

The future depends on...

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
- The Olympic Creed, introduced at the 1896 Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner

The future depends on what we do in the present.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to win friends...

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
- Kate Seredy

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
- Dale Carnegie

Success is to be measured...

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington

Life is not so much a matter of 'finding' ourselves as it is a matter of making ourselves.
-Alan McGinnis

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

Today is a new life...

Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
-Thea Alexander

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
-Martina Navratilova, Tennis Player

Today is a new life. Shut the doors on the past and the future. Live in day-tight compartments.
-Dale Carnegie

Your life is...

To him who is determined it remains only to act.
- Italian Proverb

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Bennett, U.S. Senator

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Obstacles cannot crush me...

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

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

Life is a...

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'"
- E.M.Kelley

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
-Henry Ford

If you stand up and be counted...

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
-Andrew Carnegie

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
-J. Paul Getty

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
-Thomas J. Watson

The glory of friendship...

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile... it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
-Katharine Butler Hathaway

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
-Kahlil Gibran

Whenever you do a thing...

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-Vance Havner

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
-Thomas Jefferson

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
-Theodore Roosevelt