Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
- Eric Raymond
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
- Hugh Prather
Start by doing what's necessary; then what's possible
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas Edison
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't.
- Thomas Edison
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
- Laurence J. Peter
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Anon
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burrows
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right.
- Henry Ford
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
– John Ruskin
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
– Mary Frances Berry
Every battle is won before it is ever fought.
- Sun-tzu
Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the one percent of your work which results from the 99 percent that is called failure.
- Soichiro Honda
Often the difference between a sucessful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. - Maxwell Maltz
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- Anon
The more I practice...the luckier I get
- Gary Player
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
- Napoleon Hill