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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a choice we make to never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Jim Rohn
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington
The difference between successful people and very successful people is the extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair
Discipline is the key to success. Without discipline, there is no achievement.
Lou Holtz
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Elbert Hubbard
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.
Dan Kennedy
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is the key to success.
Bill Gates
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller
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
You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Anonymous
Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter
Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and embrace change.
Todd Davis
Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Innovation is the key to success in this new economy.
John McCain
Innovation is the lifeblood of progress.
Bill Gates
Positive thoughts lead to positive results.
Maria V. Snyder
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
Harvey Mackay
Positive thinking is empowering, positive action is achieving.
Dr. T.P.Chia
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski
Positive thinking is the foundation of success and achievement.
Dr. T.P.Chia
Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with stress, and achieve your goals.
Brian Tracy
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Unknown
Gratitude is not only when we receive something, but also when we give something.
Unknown
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.
Carlos Barrios
The wise man is he who knows he knows nothing.
Socrates
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Author Unknown
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
Drew Barrymore
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
Barack Obama
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo F. Buscaglia
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest risk in life is not taking one.
Unknown
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho
Creativity is not a talent, it's a mindset.
Unknown
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Creativity is the foundation of innovation.
Naveen Jain
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Bang Gae
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.
Chinese Proverb
The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus
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