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A 365 Day Collection of great quotes from the famous

Gathered over the years from a variety of sources by Lawrence S. Brodsky, CLU, RHU. The Brodsky Agency distributes a daily quote as part of its normal conduct of business. This is the place for the complete list. We hope you find the quotes interesting, insightful and sometime humorous. (Because of its length, if you are on a dial up connection this page will take a while to load... an estimated 67 seconds over a 28.8 modem!).

December 31: "You will never win if you never begin." - Robert Schuller
December 30: "I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." - Rudyard Kipling
December 29: "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost
December 28: "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby
December 27: "Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped." - Sam Levenson
December 26: "Don't go through life, GROW through life." - Eric Butterworth
December 25: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 24: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
December 23: "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."- Groucho Marx
December 22: "I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, 'I don't know... reelection to the Senate?" - Emo Phillips
December 21: "There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source." - Brigham Young
December 20: "In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
December 19: "Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." - General Erwin Rommel
December 18: "Gentlemen prefer bonds." - Andrew Mellon.
December 17: "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
December 16: "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb
December 15: "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
December 14: "Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness', but it doesn't work." - Gallagher
December 13: "You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." - Flip Wilson
December 12: "The path of least resistance is the path of the loser." - H. G. Wells
December 11: "Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished." - Leslie Nielsen
December 10: "If someone wants great advice, listen to your spouse. Nobody know you any better, loves you any more, wants to see you succeed more, and who will be more honest." - Lou Holtz
December 9: "A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for." - -Anonymous
December 8: "Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." - John Wooden
December 7: "Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." - Martina Navratilova
December 6: "If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average." M.H. Anderson
December 5: "Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." - Lou Brock
December 4: "Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." - Unknown
December 3: "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 2: "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
December 1: "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time: it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris
November 30: "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." - Theodore Rubin
November 29: "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." - Ziggy
November 28: "Fans don't boo nobodies." - Reggie Jackson
November 27: "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."- Herschel Walker
November 26: "You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." - Henry Ford
November 25: "In order to walked on, you have to be lying down." - Brian Weir
November 24: "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
November 23: "When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." - Author Unknown
November 22: "Suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."- Mark Twain
November 21: "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard Nixon
November 20: "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic." - Jean Sibelius
November 19: "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill
November 18: "If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." - Muhammad Ali
November 17: "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben
November 16: "Cannibals prefer those who have no spines." - Stanislaw Lem
November 15: "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Les Brown
November 14: "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
November 13: "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." - Jesse Jackson
November 12: "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett
November 11: "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
November 10: "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - M.K. Gandhi
November 9: "A committee is group that keeps minutes and loses hours." - Milton Berle
November 8: "Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."- Sir Winston Churchill
November 7: "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
November 6: "Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck." - Don Schula
November 5: "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Browne
November 4: "If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone." - Donny Osmond
November 3: "The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week." - Spencer Haywood
November 2: "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs.. one step at a time." - Joe Girard
November 1: "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep street even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King Jr.
October 31: "Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more." - Edward H. Harriman
October 30: "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." - Linus Pauling
October 29: "The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams." - unknown
October 28: "Often he who does too much does too little." - Italian Proverb
October 27: "Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." - Jim Rohn
October 26: "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
October 25: "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know Knowing is not enough! You must take action." - Anthony Robbins
October 24: "I used to say, 'Things cost too much.' Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, 'The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problem is that you can't afford it.' That's when I finally understood that the problem wasn't "it" ... the problem was me." - Jim Rohn
October 23: "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas
October 22: "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster." - Theodore Roosevelt
October 21: "We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Nelson Bradley
October 20: "A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." - Patricia Neal
October 19: "It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ." - Wystan Hugh Auden
October 18: "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." - Martina Navratilova
October 17: "Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it." - Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach
October 16: "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." - Eric Hoffer
October 15: "A half-truth is a whole lie." - Jewish Proverb
October 14: "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Louise Bombeck
October 13: "Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." - Brian Tracy
October 12: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright
October 11: "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." - Woody Allen
October 10: "Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" - Benjamin Franklin
October 9: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - - William Shakespeare
October 8: "I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money." - William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
October 7: "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone
October 6: "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver
October 5: "Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." - Zig Ziglar
October 4: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
October 3: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful!" - Mae West
October 2: "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
October 1: "If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." - Unknown
September 30: "Never mistake motion for action."- Ernest Hemingway
September 29: ""Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle." - Donald Trump
September 28: "There is no I in TEAM." - Unknown
September 27: "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 S. Raymond
September 26: "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision." - --Helen Keller
September 25: "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." - Hank Aaron
September 24: "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
September 23: "I think they should have a hotline that never answers, for people who don't follow advice in the first place." - George Carlin
September 22: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain
September 21: "Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings." - George Will
September 20: You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. - Garth Brooks
September 19: "I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything; I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Helen Keller
September 18: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann
September 17: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
September 16: "A closed mouth gathers no feet." - Author Unknown
September 15: "One good idea is all you need to start a fortune." - Brian Tracy
September 14: "In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you." - William Knudsen Jr.
September 13: "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end, It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher
September 12: "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi
September 11: "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." - Doug Floyd
September 10: "You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success? or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
September 9: "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." - Vince Lombardi
September 8: "If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." - Jan Mckeithen
September 7: "We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities." - Bill Maher
September 6: "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
September 5: "The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory." - Vince Lombardi
September 4: "If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." - Dick Vermeil
September 3: "Do what you can, with what your have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
September 2: "Play the 'Reverse Gossip' Game. See how many nice things you can say "behind someone's back'." - Bob Burg
September 1: "We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything." - Jim Rohn
August 31: "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
August 30: "Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
August 29: "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher
August 28: "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar
August 27: "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington
August 26: "Presence is more than just being there." - Malcolm Forbes
August 25: "Truth is not determined by majority vote." - Doug Gwyn
August 24: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." - Henry David Thoreau
August 23: "We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses." - H.V. Adolt
August 22: "You can't fatten the pig on market day." - John Howard
August 21: "Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often." - Alexi Sayle
August 20: "People wait for opportunity to come along... yet it is there every morning." - Dennis the Menace
August 19: "Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late." - Rita Coolidge
August 18: "Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision." - Hsi-Tang
August 17: "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
August 16: "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - John Wooden
August 15: "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
August 14: "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don�t need." - Rodin
August 13: "There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am," and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
August 12: "You can get whatever you want, if you help enough people get whatever they want." - Zig Ziglar
August 11: "When I fail, I look at what I did right, not what I did wrong." - Tom Hopkins
August 10: "A girl phoned me the other day and said .... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home". - Rodney Dangerfield
August 9: "If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred." - George Burns
August 8: "This guy asked his doctor, `Will I be able to play the piano after my operation?' And the doctor says `Sure.' And the guy says, `Funny, I couldn't do it before.' " - Henny Youngman
August 7: "My doctor told me I was fat. I said I wanted a second opinion. He said, `OK, you're ugly, too.' " - Henny Youngman
August 6: "Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." - Anonymous
August 5: "90% of the putts that are short don't go in" - Yogi Berra
August 4: "If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them" - Yogi Berra
August 3: "If you come to a fork in the road, take it"- Yogi Berra
August 2: "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much" - Yogi Berra
August 1: "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six" - Yogi Berra
July 31: "Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
July 30: "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." - Yogi Berra
July 29: "This is like deja vu all over again." - Yogi Berra
July 28: "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra
July 27: "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." - Abbie Hoffman
July 26: "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
July 25: "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin
July 24: "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." - Henry Ford
July 23: "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte
July 22: "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
July 21: "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
July 20: "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
July 19: "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt
July 18: "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
July 17: "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
July 16: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
July 15: "Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." - Mark Twain
July 14: "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." - Charles Kuralt
July 13: "There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur
July 12: "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
July 11: "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the
best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey
July 10: "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
July 9: "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov
July 8: "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." - Harry S Truman
July 7: "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
July 6: "It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
July 5: "Don't count the days, make the days count" - Muhammad Ali
July 4: "A problem is a chance for you to do your best."- Duke Ellington
July 3: "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." - Moshe Dayan
July 2: "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do." - Dale Carnegie
July 1: "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another." - George Bush
June 30: "In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate." - Chester L. Karrass
June 29: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
June 28: "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker
June 27: "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." - Robert Heinlein
June 26: "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
June 25: "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." - Henny Youngman
June 24: "I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em." - Jim Valvano
June 23: "Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary
June 22: �The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.� � Ross Perot
June 21: "Think of the accumulating of stress as plaque on your mind, like plaque on your teeth. People take time to brush and floss their teeth everyday but they do nothing to remove the plaque and debris from their mind." - Dr Robert D Willox Jr
June 20: "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" - Vince Lombardi
June 19: �Whatever else history may say about me when I�m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty�s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity�s arm steadying your way.� - Ronald Reagan
June 18: "Each shot is important." - Gary Player
June 17: �Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.� � Tom Clancy
June 16: "Tough times don't last, but tough people do." - A.C. Green
June 15: "Stress is a fact of life, it doesn't have to be a way of life!" - Amanda Gore
June 14: "You can always tell when you haven't done enough, but you can't ever tell when you've done too much." - Charley Pell
June 13: "Yesterday ended last night. Everyday is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on." - Norman Vincent Peale
June 12: "Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people but you can't be two people. Instead you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people." - Lee Iacocca
June 11: �What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.� - Zig Ziglar
June 10: �Quality is the first thing seen. Service is the first thing felt. Price is the first thing forgotten." - - Jack and Garry Kinder
June 9: �I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know it would be today." - Author Unknown
June 8: "Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
June 7: "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne
June 6: "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
June 5: "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
June 4: "Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Goethe
June 3: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
June 2: "People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too." - Malcolm S. Forbes
June 1: "Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." - Roger Staubach
May 31: "Some men go through a forest and see no firewood." - English Proverb
May 30: "When the sun rises, it rises for everyone." - Cuban Proverb
May 29: "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." - Michael O'Brien
May 28: "You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference." - Chris Evert Lloyd
May 27: "I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself." - Connie Mack
May 26: "He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." - Benjamin Franklin
May 25: "When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser." - Mark Fidrych
May 24: "It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts." - Addison Walker
May 23: "Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything." - Larry Csonka
May 22: "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge
May 21: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
May 20: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, in not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
May 19: "Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself." - Brian Tracey
May 18: There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
May 17: "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party." - John Keats
May 16: "A good man is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it." - Brigham Young
May 15: "We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade" - unknown
May 14: "There is no substitute for guts." - Bear Bryant
May 13: "Success in almost any field depends more upon energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." - Sloan Wilson
May 12: "You don't have to stay up nights to succeed, you have to stay awake days." - unknown
May 11: "Forget about style, worry about results." - Bobby Orr
May 10: "Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of." - Johnny Bench
May 9: "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
May 8: "When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." - Leo Burnett
May 7: "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great." - Mark Twain
May 6: "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - Erin Majors
May 5: "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - unknown
May 4: "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." - Ann Landers
May 3: "Price is what you pay. Value is what you receive." - Warren Buffett
May 2: "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marlene vos Savant
May 1: "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
April 30: "Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?" - Jim Rohn
April 29: "Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 28: "Others will underestimate us, for although we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, others judge us only by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
April 27: "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
April 26: "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
April 25: "The definition of insanity is when you keep doing the same thing over and over again, each time hoping for different results." - Edward Deming
April 24: "The worst part about being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin
April 23: "The biggest mistake that you'll ever make in life is to believe that you work for somebody else." - Earl Nightingale
April 22: "Change is like a steamroller. If you are not on the steamroller, there's a real good chance you might become part of the road." - Marvin Cetron
April 21: "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
April 20: "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." - Irma Bombeck
April 19: "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." Vince Lombardi
April 18: "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra
April 17: "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." - General Douglas MacArthur
April 16: "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson
April 15: "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." - Bruce Marton
April 14: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen
April 13: "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. they give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." - H. Ross Perot
April 12: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby
April 11: "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather
April 10: "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
April 9: "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain
April 8: "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have.... is the ability to take on responsibility." - Michael Korda
April 7: "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" - Ayn Rand
April 6: "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." - Warren Beatty
April 5: "There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." - Carrie Fisher
April 4: "Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes
April 3: "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." - Joe Paterno
April 2: "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand
April 1: "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
March 31: "Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante
March 30: "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
March 29: "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George Patton
March 28: "Eight percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
March 27: "Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure" - Michael Levine
March 26: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 25: "Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile." - Gary Ryan Blair
March 24: "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Winston Churchill
March 23: "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky
March 22: "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
March 21: "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
March 20: "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success." - Thomas J. Watson
March 19: "Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success." - Diana Rankin
March 18: "The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success." - Elbert Hubbard
March 17: "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
March 16: "I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result." - Michael Jordan
March 15: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
March 14: "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information" - Benjamin Disraeli
March 13: "Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble." - Emerson
March 12: "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
March 11: "Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billy Jean King
March 10: "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan
March 9: "I'll let the racket do the talking." - John McEnroe
March 8: "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
March 7: "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates
March 6: "You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win." - Ted Turner
March 5: "I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)
March 4: "A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers." - Jay Leno
March 3: "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
March 2: "The most popular labor-saving device is still money." - Phyllis George
March 1: "When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.". --The Hunt For Red October
February 29 Leap Year: "I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated." - Howard Stern
February 28: "Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it." - Winston Churchill
February 27: "I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best." - Akeem Olajuwon
February 26: "It's not over till you win." - Les Brown
February 25: "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock
February 24: "Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!" - Max Schmelling
February 23: "A minute's success pays the failure of years" - Robert Browning
February 22: "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach
February 21: "You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney
February 20: "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
February 19: "If you make a sale you can earn a commission. If you make a friend you can earn a fortune." - Jeffrey Gitomer, author and seminar presenter on sales and customer service .
February 18: "I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
February 17: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonapate
February 16: "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
February 15: "The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
February 14: "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome" - Arthur Ashe
February 13: "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka
February 12: "Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise" - Cato the Elder
February 11: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
February 10: "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
February 9: "When you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
February 8: "There is only one boss - the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart
February 7: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky, NHL Hockey Player
February 6: "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground." - unknown
February 5: "Most salesmen try to take 'the horse to water and make him drink'. Your job is to make the horse thirsty." -Gabriel M. Siegel, President of MediCab of New York, Inc in a speech to sales reps.
February 4: "Associate not with evil men, lest you increase their number." - George Herbert
February 3: "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau
February 2: "A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace." - Ovid
February 1: "What it lies in our power to do, it also lies in our power not to do." - Airistotle
January 31: "A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
January 30: "Northing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have." - Emile Chartier - French Philosopher
January 29: "We will either find a way or make one." - Hannibal
January 28: "Our characters are the result of our conduct." - Aristotle
January 27: "Customers control profitability. A five percent increase in customer retention equals between 25 percent and 80 percent increase in profits." - Harvard Business School Study
January 26: "The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." - Joe Paterno
January 25: "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
January 24: "The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works." - William Strong
January 23: "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Szu
January 22: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
January 21: "Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." Henry Ford
January 20: "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
January 19: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did." - Mark Twain
January 18: "The key to achievement lies in being a 'how' thinker, not an 'if'' thinker." - Anonymous
January 17: "Accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
January 16: "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
January 15: "Nobody spends somebody else's money quite the same as their own." - Milton Friedman
January 14: "One can not manage change. One can only be ahead of it." - Peter Drucker
January 13: "With confidence, you reach truly amazing heights: without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." - Jim Loehr
January 12: " I don not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." - Mikhail Baryshnikov
January 11: "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." - Walter Lippman
January 10: "Forget your opponents, always play against par." - Sam Snead
January 9: "Sometimes, when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand - I am tempted to think... there are no little things." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 8: "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max DePree
January 7: "You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." - Alvin Toffler, futurist and writer
January 6: "The whole point of everything we do is to make the customer happy for the long haul. If people are satisfied and excited about the experience of shopping at Nordstrom, they will come back. And if you haven't created that atmosphere, they won't come back. It's just that simple." - David Lindsey, Vice President, store planning, Nordstrom
January 5: "I wanted to be a Boy Scout, but I had all the wrong traits. Apparently, they were looking for kids who were trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. Unfortunately, at that time, I was devious, fickle, obstructive, hostile, rude, mean, defiant, glum, extravagant, cowardly, dirty and sacrilegious. So I waited a few years and joined the army." - George Carlin
January 4: "Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way." - Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
January 3: "There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." - William John Bennett
January 2: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
January 1: "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

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