Success Is Not Bought but Built from the ground Up

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."
- Barbara Pletcher, author

"Life is the sum of all your choices."
- Albert Camus, Author

"I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing. "
- Larry Bird, basketball player

"Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday."
- Robert Newell, humorist

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
- John Wooden, basketball coach

"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 (the) other tasks."
- Brian Tracy, motivational coach

"No matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. "
- Henry Bloch, H&R Block co-founder

"To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. "
- Conrad Hilton, hotel executive

"Every memorable act in the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."
- Og Mandion

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
- Julie Andrews, actress

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it."
- George Lucas, director

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Channing, theologian

"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Dorothea Brande, writer

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
- Lucille Ball, actress

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. "
- Hugh White, senator

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
- Napolean Hill, author

"Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No frontline employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission."
- Jan Carlzon, airline executive

"You are not beaten until you admit it."
- George Patton, general

"Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy. "
- Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker

"In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
- Chris Evert, Tennis Champion

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad... when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at their lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."
- Walt Disney, producer

"A man watches his pear tree, day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both the fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear, at length, falls into his lap."
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake."
- Alan Greenspan, economist