At 211° water is hot.
At 212° it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.And with steam, you can power a train.
One degree more = Exponential results
"Knowing when to keep your mouth shut
is invariably more important than
opening it at the right time."
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
"Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"The secret of success in life
is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Leaders aren't born, they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
Sam Ewing (1920-2001)
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success.
A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s."
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears."
John McCain (1936- )
"Vitality shows
not only in the ability to persist,
but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the
credit."
Robert Yates (1943- )NASCAR racing team owner
"Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance and...
confidence in ourselves."
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
"Change is the law of life,
and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"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 - )
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
"There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway."
Mark Burnett (1960- )
"It is not the strongest of the species
that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
"The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them."
Earl Tupper (1907-1983)Tupperware inventor
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
"You see things, and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life."
John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
"It is a bad carpenter who quarrels with his tools. It is a bad general who blames his men
for faulty workmanship."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"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)
"Logic and over-analysis can immobilize and sterilize an idea. It's like love-- the more you
analyze it, the faster it disappears."
William Bernbach (1911-1982)
"Deal with the world the way it is,
not the way you wish it was."
John Chambers (1949 - )CEO of Cisco Systems
"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)
“Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by
doing."
Carlos Ghosn (1954 - )
"In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life:
It goes on."
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"I try to learn from the past,
but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present."
Donald Trump (1946 - )
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
Paulo Coelho (1947- )
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
"There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work and learning from failure."
Colin L. Powell (1937- )
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at something worth
doing."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
"If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold."
Howard Schultz (1954 - )Chairman of Starbucks Coffee
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems."
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see
all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 - )
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance,
you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
"The one unchangeable certainty
is that nothing is certain
or unchangeable."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin."
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
"Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"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)
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he
can."
Henry Drummond (1851-1897)
"The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all
-- doing nothing."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves... the choices we make are
ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the
impossible."
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Goethe (1749-1832)
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan (1963 - )
"Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time
and build your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
"You only have what you give.
It's by spending yourself that you become rich."
Isabel Allende (1942 – )
"There is only one boss, THE CUSTOMER.
And she can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending her money somewhere else."
Sam Walton (1918–1992)
"You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills (1929-2007)
“The only thing that separates the successful people from the ones who aren't is the
willingness to work very very hard."
Helen Gurley Brown (1922- )
“Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right and
string my days together into a life of action and purpose."
Lance Armstrong (1971- )
“Never let anyone tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
“Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.."
Saint Francis of Assissi (1182 - 1226)
“If you work just for money
you will never make it,
but if you love what you are doing
and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."
Ray Kroc(1902-1984)
“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest
lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will
starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you had
better be running."
Anonymous
“You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones
and climb to new heights."
Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)
“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the
conquering of it.”
Dan Millman (1946 - )
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)
“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote
from greed.”
Channing Pollock (1880 – 1946)
“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do with money.
Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge.
It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.”
Ann Lander (1918 – 2002)
“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not
have an opportunity to use any of the others.” Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing
on.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that
things are difficult.”
Seneca (4 BC – 65AD)
“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
“Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.”
Guy Kawasaki (1954 - )
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the
future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so.
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.
The choice is yours.”
Noam Chomsky (1928 - )
“It is amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something but to
be someone.”
Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)
“Leadership, the art of getting someone else to do something that you want, because he
wants to do it.”
Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters, cannot be trusted with the important
ones.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
“A man who tells lies… merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten
where he put it.”
T. E. Lawrence (1888 – 1935)
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing that you don’t put it in a fruit salad.”
Anonymous
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs
done.”
Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005)
“Motivate them, train them, care about them... they’ll treat the customer right.
And if they are treated right,
they’ll come back.”
J. W. Marriott (1900 – 1985)
“You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get
what they want!”
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )
“Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.”
Martha Washington (1731 – 1802)
“We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.”
Billy Graham (1918 - )
“Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.”
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913 – 1983)
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-
confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe (1943 – 1993)
“Show class.
Have pride.
Display character.
If you do, winning takes care of itself.”
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913 – 1983)
“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed
with satisfaction.”
George Horace Lorimer (1869 – 1937)
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders
and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you
shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy
shall meet him everywhere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“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 little 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 the meaning of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find
it not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“A brave man thinks no one superior who does him injury; for make himself superior to
the other by forgiveness.”
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important
motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and
the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip
ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.” Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
“Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
“The life given us by nature is short,
but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.”
Cicero (106BC – 43BC)
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.”
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted,
but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything
originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of
gratitude.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The
gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for
100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this
afternoon!’”
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
“Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the
words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being
nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions.
Talk peaceful to be peaceful.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory.
That's the essence of it.”
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
“When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you
could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that
the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
“Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other
man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be "hearty in
your approbation and lavish in your praise," and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a
lifetime -- repeat them years after you have forgotten them.”
Dale Carnegie
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you
believe.”
St. Augustine
“There should be less talk. . . .
What do you do then?
Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.”
Mother Theresa
“Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.”
William Durant
(founder of General Motors)
“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all
humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You
cannot defeat me.”
Ann Landers
“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”
Dr. Jonas Salk
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn
“It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often
get it.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man
grow to greater dignity as a human being -- we can do it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will
see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity.”
General George S. Patton
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never
grow.”
Ronald E. Osborn
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke
“Warriors take chances.
Like everyone else, they fear failing,
but they refuse to let fear control them.”
Ancient Samurai saying
“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have
capacities, talents, direction, missions, and callings.”
Abraham H. Maslow
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the
dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled
for.”
Maureen Dowd
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of
a man is to live, not to exist.”
Jack London
“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are farless than the long-range risks and
costs of comfortable inaction.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
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