Goals
1. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
2. “Do or do not. There is no try.”- Yoda
3. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you
plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much of Today.” – Will Rogers
5. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” - George Addai
6. “I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” - Lewis
Carroll
7. “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon?
Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” – Jill Konrath
8. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” – Zig Zigler
9. “If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big.” - Tom Hirshfield
10. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” — Salvador Dali
11. “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” - Lou
Holtz
13. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies
solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
14. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” - Lucius Seneca
15. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence.” - Vince Lombardi
16. “The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your
comfort zone.” – Karen Salmansohn
17. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
18. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
- Charles Kingsleigh
19. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” - John Muir
20. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce
Lee
21. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene” - A.C.
Benson
22. “You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of
you and drive fast.” – Jack Dorsey
23. “You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you
can exceed them.” – Saji Ijiyemi
Hard Work
24. " A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through
the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.” – Mildred Struven
25. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks
others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
26. “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or
intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” – Calvin Coolidge
27. “Becoming is better than being.” - Carol Dweck
28. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
29. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what
makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
30. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.” - Mark Twain
31. “Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.” – Habeeb Akande
32. “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” – Luther Campbell
33. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfilment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara
34. “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena
Rubinstein
35. “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a
tragedy.” – Robert Hall
36. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have
of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
37. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means
paint and that voice will be silenced.” - Vincent Van Gogh
38. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded
without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks
39. “Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get
better. It’s hard to stay on top.” – Paul Coffey
40. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.” - Thomas Edison
41. “Refuse failure. No matter how difficult the obstacles, find a way to around
them.” – JJ Goldwag
42. “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with
hard work, means everything.” - Patrick Suskind
43. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden
44. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and
courage as the day gets on.” - Charles Dickens
45. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work,
and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
46. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the
airplane takes off against the wind, not with it” - Henry Ford
47. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach
you.” - Barack Obama
48. “You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve
and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going." - Ellen
DeGeneres
Leadership
49. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version
of somebody else.” - Judy Garland
50. “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
51. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote
52. “First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by
events.” – Marie Curie
53. "If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes
nothing.” - Ernest Hemingway
54. “If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
55. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
56. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do
because they want to do it.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
57. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it
happen.” - Michael Jordan
58. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start
over.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
59. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”
- Hasidic Proverb
60. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
- Amelia Earhart
61. “There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good
job.” - Terence Fletcher
62. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” - Dr. Robert Schuller
63. “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of
value.” – Albert Einstein
64. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of
life is when men are afraid of the light” - Plato
65. "Well done, is better than well said” - Benjamin Franklin
66. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” - Lao Tzu
67. “When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” - Henry J. Kaiser
68. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is” – Vince Lombardi
Responsibility
69. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” – Zig Ziglar
70. "Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
71. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
72. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit
there.” – Will Rogers
73. “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” - Ralph Marston
74. “Genius is born—not paid.” - Oscar Wilde
75. “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln
76. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
77. “It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
- Rebecca Wells
78. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our
possibilities become limitless.” - Jamie Paolinetti
79. “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” - Benjamin Franklin
80. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!” – Audrey
Hepburn
81. “Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary
individual couldn't make a difference in the world. I think that's just a horrible
thing.” - John Skoll
82. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
83. “The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” - Steve
Schulte
84. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
– Jimmy Johnson
85. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”
- Ayn Rand
86. “The secret of getting ahead, is getting started.” - Mark Twain
87. “There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say
nothing.” - Aristotle
88. “Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
89. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
90. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail.
Try again. Change the world.” - Simon Sinek
91. “You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you
can do is change how you react to it” - Mahatma Gandhi
92. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do” – Henry Ford
93. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” - Maya
Angelou
Teamwork
94. “You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing
yourself individually but in the team context.” – José Mourinho
95. “If two men on the same job agree all the time, one is useless. If they
disagree all the time, both are useless” – Darryl F. Zanuck
96. “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.”
- Buddha
97. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– H.E. Luccock
100. "Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championship.” – Micheal
Jordan
101. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us
becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho