Procrastination is the thief of time.


Edward Young

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.


Garson Kanin

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a mans foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Thomas Huxley

Entrepreneur: A high rolling taker who would rather be a spectacular failure than a dismal success.

Jim Fisk

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Aneurin Bevan

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Do not be afraid to take big steps.
You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.


David Lloyd George

Every man has the right to risk
his own life in order to save it.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

Pick battles big enough to matter,
small enough to win.


Jonathan Kozol

The dictionary is the only place
where success comes before work.


Arthur Brisbane

The greatest pleasure in life
is doing what people say you cannot do.


Walter Bagehot

Failure is never final and success is never-ending. Success is a journey, not a destination.

Robert Schuller

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Success is a journey not a destination
half the fun is getting there.


Gita Bellin

Eighty percent of success is showing up.


Woody Allen

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished ones business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.


Eddie Cantor

I do not want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth - even if it costs them their jobs.

Samuel Goldwyn

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the will to win, it is the will to practise to win that makes the crucial difference.

Bobby Knight

The first man gets the oyster,
the second man gets the shell.


Andrew Carnegie

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.


Pablo Piacasso

Work keeps us from three evils:
boredom, vice and need.


Voltaire