Gagler's Quote of the Day

January 2000 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

 

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.   If you can dream it, you can make it so."

        - Belva Davis

"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."

        - Stephen R. Covey

"Everything starts with yourself - with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life."

        - Tony Dorsett

"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.  The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about, and what you value."

        - Stephen R. Covey

"Circumstances may cause interruptions or delays, but never lose sight of the goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs."

        - Mario Andretti

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment….Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller, and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or portion is more readily seen." 

        - Leonardo da Vinci

"...if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

        - Winston Churchill

"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment."

        - Robert Collier

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

        - Eleanor Roosevelt

"For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

        - Aristotle

"Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done.  But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me.  I knew I could do it."

        - Patrick Ewing

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

        - Samuel Johnson

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

        - Confucius

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

        - Helen Keller

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

        - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers."

        - Woodrow Wilson

"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?"

        - Henry David Thoreau

"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."

        - Vidal Sasson

"It's when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds and you think it is too. But you go after it anyway and you get to it. Maybe you don't make a great cross with it to win the game, but you pushed yourself beyond what you thought you could. That's what it will take to win the gold."

        - Mia Hamm

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest
people would be librarians."

        - Warren Buffett

"The trouble in America is not that we are making too many
mistakes, but that we ar making too few."

    - Phil Knight

"Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of
home and enables me to enjoy it better."

        - Henry David Thoreau

"The best way to travel is to go well-heeled."

        - Leigh Hunt

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.  In this life we get nothing save by effort."

        - Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

        - Carl Sandburg

"Success supposes endeavor."

        - Jane Austen

"I contribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."

    

"Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them."

        - Harold Ross

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."

        - Richard Bach

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

        - Maureen Dowd

"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

        - Zig Ziglar


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