Gagler's Quote of the Day

December 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

        - M. Scott Peck

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

        - Margaret Thatcher

"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."

        - Charles Schwab

"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."

        - Martina Navratilova

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

        - General Douglas MacArthur

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

        - Orsen Swett Marden

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

        - Douglas Everett

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

        - Thomas Edison

"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."

        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

         - Ayn Rand

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

        - Hugh Downs

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."

        - Joe DiMaggio

"Try to name a true success story that involves someone giving up before the job was done."

        - Wess Roberts

"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

        - Henry Ward Beecher

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

        - Malcolm Forbes

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

        - Walt Disney

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

        - Zig Ziglar

"I am willing to put myself through anything: temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process."

        - Diana Nyad

"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered."

        - Tina Turner

"You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration."

        - James Allen

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napolean.  And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

        - Salvador Dali

"You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game."

        - Dan Dierdorf

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

        - Zig Ziglar

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."

        - Anthony Robbins

"High expectations are the key to everything."

        - Sam Walton

"If you count all your assets you always show a profit."

        - Robert Quillen