Improving yourself

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself."

John Ruskin

Believing in yourself

"To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will."

Sugar Ray Robinson

Removing doubt and fear

"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

Looking at what can be done

"So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done."

Marian Wright Edelman

Getting junk out of the way

"Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete other tasks."

Brian Tracy

Branding yourself

"Initially my income was low and I was unknown. As soon as I launched the Mars-Venus brand, my income sky-rocketed even though my knowledge level had not changed. Branding is everything."

Dr. John Gray
Author and Speaker

A grateful heart

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."

Zig Ziglar
Author and Speaker

Doing remarkable things

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."

Wendy Wasserstein
1950-2006, Playwright

When the only way is up

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

J.K. Rowling
Novelist

How to succeed

"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

Og Mandino

Giving love

"The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Counting your blessings

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A secret to winning

"The difference in winning and losing is most often... not quitting."

Walt Disney

Gratitude

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

William Faulkner

Don't quit so soon

"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill

Putting others down

"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."

Marian Anderson
1902-1993, Concert and Opera Singer

Understanding others

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."

Dale Carnegie

Listening to your heart

"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

Sylvester Stallone

When you think something might just work ...

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Seeing beauty

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Franz Kafka