GET INSPIRED: "The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it"...and More...

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
- Paul Boese

"When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen."
- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
- Channing Pollock

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

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

"You promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility."
- William Gore, executive

"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom."
- Socrates

"I believe in me more than anything in this world."
- Wilma Rudolph, Olympic runner

"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later."
- William Jennings Bryan, attorney

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby, Comedian

"The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game."
- Jack Welch, Executive

"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities."
- Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
- Benjamin Franklin, statesman

"I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

"The most important thing about goals is... having one."
- Geoffry F. Abert

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
- John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. president

"When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. "
- Estee Lauder, entrepreneur

"If you're not making mistakes, your'e not trying hard enough."
- Vince Lombardi, football coach

"What holds so many employees back is an unwillingness to pay the price, to make the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."
- Orison Marden, writer

"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
- Barbara Bush, first lady

"Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within."
- Thomas Paine, statesman

"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
- Peter Drucker, management expert