a Quote. - added: Wed, Jan 30 12:00 AM

upon the plains of hesitation.

Bleached wiyh bones of countless millions ; who in thier moment of decesion.

Sat downto decide ,and in decideing they died.

 

OMAR KIAM

Thanks, Adam, those were great! - added: Mon, Jan 28 12:00 AM

Here's one I came across as a highschool studentl...it haunted me then, and still "says it" for me now!

 

Thanks again! 

 

Rob

 

"If it's going to be, it's up to me"

(anon)

Quotes on excuses - added: Mon, Dec 10 12:00 AM

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

 

Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller

 

He who excuses himself accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier

 

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

 

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

 

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Don Wilder

 

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
Yiddish Proverb

 

No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto

 

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life.
Eric Hoffer

 

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.
Catherine Pulsifer

 

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope

 

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois La Rochefoucauld

 

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

 

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

 

Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George W. Carver

 

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger

 

Quotes on enthusiasm - added: Sat, Dec 08 12:00 AM

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler

 

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale

 

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman

 

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab

 

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr

 

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be - enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

 

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

 

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford

 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson

 

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

 

Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

 

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

 

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

 

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Kahlil Gibran

 

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

 

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

 

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

 

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee

 

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

 

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

Quotes on goals - added: Sat, Dec 08 12:00 AM

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Watley

 

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Edmund Hillary

 

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan

 

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson

 

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson

 

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
Kurt Thomas

 

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Marsha Sinetar

 

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold H. Glasgow

 

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt

 

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

 

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Noble

 

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Sydney Smith

 

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out
Ronald Reagan

 

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

 

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle

 

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

 

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Kathy Seligman

 

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Paul Meyer

 

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland

 

Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

 

If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.
Susan Polis Schultz

 

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
Steve Garvey

 

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Scott Reed

 

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays

 

Goals determine what you're going to be.
Julius Erving

 

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David Joseph Schwartz

 

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.
Author Unknown

 

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Helmut Schmidt

 

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
Earl Nightingale

 

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Ralph Waldo Emereson

 

When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Douglas Lurtan

 

Great minds have purposes, others have dreams.
Washington Irving

 

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Booker T. Washington

 

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

 

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

 

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
Clarence Thomas

 

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

 

Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will loose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip.
submitted by Joe Brown

 

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale

 

Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish.
Catherine Pulsifer

 

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown

 

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

 

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

 

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

You have to know what you want to get.
Gertrude Stein

 

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra

 

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Earl Nightingale

 

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy

 

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars.
Les Brown (by the way, this is one of my favorites)

 

The unfortunate aspect about living life without your own goals is that you may very well reach a point in your life where you will wonder, 'what would have happened if I had only done...
Catherine Pulsifer

 

Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
Unknown

 

Quotes on ability - added: Fri, Dec 07 12:00 AM

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

 

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards

 

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel

 

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

 

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

 

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton

 

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

 

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

 

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

 

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil

 

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington

 

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder

 

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren

 

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

 

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

 

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe

 

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow

 

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

 

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter

 

Quotes on perseverance - added: Fri, Dec 07 12:00 AM

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

 

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham

 

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch

 

God helps those who persevere.
The Koran

 

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff

 

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott

 

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill

 

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen

 

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie

 

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

 

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch

 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

 

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

 

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

 

A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

 

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale

 

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Herhiser

 

How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn

 

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour.
Catherine Pulsifer

 

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

 

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews

 

Quotes on determination - added: Thu, Dec 06 12:00 AM

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
John J. Watson

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!
Catherine Pulsifer

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer

We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brock