collection of inspirational words

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." - Peter F. Drucker

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

"The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done." - Karen Kakascik

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality." - Norman Douglas

"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how ‘You’ made them Feel" - Maya Angelou

"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you." - Henry Drummond

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got." - Lee Iacocca

"Prioritize your daily list of things to do by what's most important and rewarding -- well before you start." - Prakash

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies." - Kahlil Gibran

"Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others--a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill." - Thomas Kinkade

"Who is the greatest motivational speaker in the world? There is only one - your inner voice!" - Paul Frazer

"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - Pearl S. Buck

ingenuity

"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
U.S. Army general during WWII

Fear

"Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th president of the United States

insanity

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”



Albert Einstein (attributed)

US (German born) physicist (1879-1955)

Good one

"You try you fail, you try you fail the only true failure is in not trying."

Tiger Woods

sales

The top line of the income statement and the driving force of all organizations, ideas and progress... also used to describe the greatest profession in history and greatest skill one can ever have

good things

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?

We must have perseverance and...confidence in ourselves."

Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Polish-born French physicist
two-time Nobel Prize winner





"Good things happen when you do good."

Wesley Autrey
New York construction worker and hero

Our heads

"Our heads are round in order that our thinking may change direction."

French painter Francis M. de Picabia (1879–1953)

fishermen

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible,

but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Dutch painter
first career: art salesman

Confucius

“Learning without thinking causes haze;

Thinking without learning causes bewilderment.”



-Confucius