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“Every person who has become
successful has simply formed the habit
of doing things that failures dislike doing
and will not do.”
- John C. Maxwell
"Be yourself. Everyone else
is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
"Advertisements are now so numerous that
they are very negligently perused, and it is
therefore become necessary to gain attention
by magnificence of promises, and by
eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes
pathetic."
-Samuel Johnson
1759
“Rule #1: Take one more step. Rule #2:
When you can’t take one more step, refer
to Rule #1.”
- H. Jackson Brown
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop
trying.”
- John Maxwell
“A champion is one who gets up when
he can’t.”
- Jack Dempsey
“A day lived without doing something
good for others is a day not worth
living.”
- Mother Teresa
“Dreams come a size too big so that we
can grow into them.”
- Josie Bisset
“You may succeed if nobody else believes in
you, but you will never succeed if you don’t
believe in yourself.”
- John Maxwell
“The more concerned you become with things
you can’t control, the less you will do to
improve the things you can control.”
- John Maxwell
“To succeed in life, we must stay within
our strength zone but continually move
outside our comfort zone.”
- John Maxwell
“Successful generals make plans to fit
circumstances, but do not try to create
circumstances to fit plans.”
- George S. Patton Jr.
“It takes humility to seek feedback. It
takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it
and appropriately act on it.”
- Stephen R. Covey
“It is hard to be 100 percent better than
your competition, but can be 1 percent
better in 100 ways.”
- Rich Melman
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
“Goals allow you to control the direction
of change in your favor.”
- Brian Tracy
"They always say time changes things,
but you actually have to change them
yourself."
- Andy Warhol
“When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we
do not see the one which has opened."
- Alexander Graham Bell
“The most successful people are those
who are good at Plan B."
- James Yorke
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small
enough to win.”
- Jonathan Kozol
“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act
but a habit."
- Aristotle
“In any moment of decision the best
thing you can do is the right thing, the
next best thing is the wrong thing, and
the worst thing you can do is nothing."
- Theodore Roosevelt
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves,
that we should take seriously."
- Peter Ustinov
“You must be the change you wish to see
in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Every strike brings me closer to the
next home run."
- Babe Ruth
“I cannot give you the formula for
success, but I can give you the formula
for failure, which is try to please
everybody.”
- Herbert Bayard Swope
“When you have a great and difficult
task, something perhaps almost
impossible, if you only work a little at a
time, every day a little, suddenly the
work will finish itself.”
- Isak Dinesen
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as
if you'll die today."
- James Dean
“We cannot become what we need to be
by remaining what we are.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly when it comes from a
relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a
stranger.”
- Franklin P. Jones
“We all find time to do what we really
want to do.”
- William Feather
“Two ways to make every day better:
Think and thank.”
- Zig Ziglar
“The instant you set a goal a light goes
on in your future.”
- Jim Paluch
“A winner is big enough to admit his
mistakes, smart enough to profit from
them, and strong enough to correct
them.”
- John Maxwell
“You get better results if you have high
expectations.”
- Charles Adair
“There’s only one way to succeed in
anything and that is to give everything.”
- Vince Lombardi
“The measure of a life, after all, is not its
duration but its donation.”
- Corrie Ten Boom
“You’re not finished when you are
defeated, you are finished when you
quit.”
- Zig Ziglar
“You cannot live a perfect day without
doing something for someone who will
never be able to repay you.”
- John Wooden
“If someone offers you the world on a
silver platter, take the platter.”
Wall Street Journal
“Formal education will earn you a living.
Self-education will earn you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
"Let your imagination release your
imprisoned possibilities."
- Robert H. Schuller
"Advertising is salesmanship mass produced.
No one would bother to use advertising if he
could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But
he can't."
-Morris Hite
Adman: Morris Hite's Methods for
Winning the Ad Game
“We will either find a way, or make
one.”
- Hannibal
“There are no shortcuts to anyplace
worth going.”
- Beverly Sills
“Just about anyone can make a living.
The duty and opportunity of everyone is
to make a life.”
- Zig Ziglar
“I not only use all the brains I have, but
all I can borrow.”
- Woodrow Wilson
“Pay now, play later;
play now, pay later.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Personality has the power to open
doors, but it takes character to keep them
open.”
- Zig Ziglar
“He who is good at making excuses is
seldom good for anything else.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“We first form habits.
Then habits form us.”
- John C. Maxwell
“The richest soil, uncultivated, produces
the rankest weeds.”
- Plutarch
“If you’re not doing something with your
life, it doesn’t matter how long it is.”
- Peace Corps Commercial
“Ninety-nine percent of failures come
from people who have the habit of
making excuses.”
- George Washington Carver
“We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing; others judge us by
what we have done.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You cannot go any higher than your
self-image.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you
can do today, because if you enjoy it
today, you can do it again tomorrow.”
- James A. Michener
“Choice, not chance, determines human
destiny.”
- Zig Ziglar
“When you cease to make a contribution,
you begin to die.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“The greatest mistake we make is living
in constant fear that we will make one.”
- John C. Maxwell
“The future belongs to people who see
possibilities before they become
obvious.”
- Ted Levitt
“The man who starts out going nowhere
generally gets there.”
- Dale Carnegie
“Between saying and doing, many a pair
of shoes is worn out.”
- Italian Proverb
“Why not go out on a limb?
Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
- Frank Scully
“People who never do any more than
they get paid for never get paid for any
more than they do.”
- Elbert Hubbard
“Winners concentrate on winning.
Losers concentrate on getting by.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Keep away from people who belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain
“Are you gonna get any better, or is this
it?”
- Earl Weaver, former Baltimore Orioles
manager, speaking to an umpire
“A rut is a grave with both ends knocked
out.”
- Unknown
“Essentially there are two actions in life:
Performance and excuses. Make a
decision as to which you will accept for
yourself.”
- Stephen Brown
“Excellence is the gradual result of
always striving to do better.”
- Pat Riley
“When was the last time that you did
something for the first time?”
- Unknown
“I not only use all the brains I have, but
all I can borrow.”
- Woodrow Wilson
“Pay now, play later;
play now, pay later.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Image is what people think we are.
Integrity is what we really are.”
- John C. Maxwell
“If you’re not doing something with your
life, it doesn’t matter how long it is.”
- Peace Corps Commercial
“The greatest mistake we make is living
in constant fear that we will make one.”
- John C. Maxwell
“The man who starts out going nowhere
generally gets there.”
- Dale Carnegie
“People who never do any more than
they get paid for never get paid for any
more than they do.”
- Elbert Hubbard
“Essentially there are two actions in life:
Performance and excuses. Make a
decision as to which you will accept for
yourself.”
- Stephen Brown
“You’ve got to be careful if you don’t
know where you’re going ‘cause you
might not get there.”
- Yogi Berra
“Image is what people think we are.
Integrity is what we really are.”
- John C. Maxwell
“I not only use all the brains I have, but
all I can borrow.”
- Woodrow Wilson
“Pay now, play later;
play now, pay later.”
- John C. Maxwell
“If you’re not doing something with your
life, it doesn’t matter how long it is.”
- Peace Corps Commercial
“The greatest mistake we make is living
in constant fear that we will make one.”
- John C. Maxwell
“The man who starts out going nowhere
generally gets there.”
- Dale Carnegie
“People who never do any more than
they get paid for never get paid for any
more than they do.”
- Elbert Hubbard
“Essentially there are two actions in life:
Performance and excuses. Make a
decision as to which you will accept for
yourself.”
- Stephen Brown
“We first form habits.
Then habits form us.”
- John C. Maxwell
“When was the last time that you did
something for the first time?”
- Unknown
“Great fear will always lose out to great
faith”
- Zig Ziglar
“You never have to recover from a good
start.”
- Unknown
“Image is what people think we are.
Integrity is what we really are.”
- John C. Maxwell
“You never have to recover from a good
start.”
- Unknown
“Anyone who has made a mistake and
doesn’t correct it is making another one.”
- Unknown
“Life is a lot like tennis – the one who
can serve best seldom loses.”
- Unknown
“If you think you can, you can. And if
you think you can’t you’re right.”
- Mary Kay Ash
“Experience is knowing a lot of things
you shouldn’t do.”
- William Knudson
“Life is like an ice-cream cone- just
when you think you’ve got it licked, it
drips all over you.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Progress always involves risks. You
can’t steal second and keep your foot on
first.”
- Fredrick Wilcox
“If we did all the things we are capable
of doing, we would literally astonish
ourselves.”
- Thomas Edison
“You have to give up to go up.”
- David Jeremiah
“To err is human…but when the eraser
wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re
overdoing it.”
- Jerry Jenkins
“There are a lot of ways to become a
failure, but never taking a chance is the
most successful.”
- Unknown
“Very often a change of self is needed
more than a change of scene.”
- Benson
“We cannot become what we need to be
by remaining what we are.”
- Unknown
“Most people are more comfortable with
old problems than with new solutions.”
- Unknown
“The average person goes to his grave
with his music still in him.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“All accomplishment comes from daring
to begin.”
- Unknown
“Eighty percent of success is showing
up.”
- Woody Allen
“If you’re looking for a big opportunity,
seek out a big problem.”
- Unknown
“No man ever listened himself out of a
job.”
- Calvin Coolidge
“To go nowhere, follow the crowd.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Pair up in threes.”
- Yogi Berra
“Inspiration without perspiration is a
dream; perspiration without inspiration is
a nightmare.”
- Unknown
“Anytime you let up, expect a letdown.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Whiners achieve only when they feel
like it. Winners achieve even when they
don’t.”
- John C. Maxwell
“You must have long-range goals to
keep you from being frustrated by shortrange failures.”
- Charles C. Noble
“Always keep your eye on the prize.”
- George Foreman
“Great people don’t equal great teams.”
- Tom Peters
“We’re lost, but we’re making good
time.”
- Yogi Berra
“People don’t care how much you know
until they know how much you care.”
- John C. Maxwell
“I will pay more for the ability to deal
with people than for any other ability
under the sun.”
- John D. Rockefeller
“You can tell more about a person by
what he says about others than you can
by what others say about him.”
- Unknown
“Truth without love is brutality. Love
without truth is hypocrisy.”
- Unknown
“The only way to have a friend is to be
one.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of
confidence.”
- Vince Lombardi
“What worries you masters you."
- Haddon W. Robinson
“If I take care of my character, my
reputation will take care of itself.”
- D.L. Moody
“Many succeed momentarily by what
they know; Some succeed temporarily by
what they do; Few succeed permanently
by what they are.”
- John Maxwell
"A positive attitude may not solve all
your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the
effort."
- Herm Albright
"If you hear a voice within you say "you
cannot paint," then by all means paint
and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent Van Gogh
"Remember that the toes you are
stepping on today may well be attached
to the ass you may need to kiss
tomorrow."
- Anonymous
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is
about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Sometimes you gotta create what you
want to be a part of."
- Geri Weitzman
"People don't really care how much you
know until they know how much you
care."
- Mike McNight
"Marketing is not an event, but a process... It
has a beginning, a middle, but never an end,
for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it,
change it, even pause it. But you never stop it
completely."
- Jay Conrad Levinson
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of
the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain
"I have never worked a day in my life without
selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and
I sell it hard."
- Estée Lauder
"The greatest problem with
communication is the illusion that it has
been accomplished."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Somewhere, something incredible is
waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
"The secret of all effective originality in
advertising is not the creation of new and
tricky words and pictures, but one of putting
familiar words and pictures into new
relationships."
- Leo Burnett
"Everyone lives by selling something."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many
industries today are marketing nothing more
than commodities - no more, no less. What
will make the difference in the long run is the
care and feeding of customers."
- Michael Mescon
"The only way to discover the limits of
the possible is to go beyond them into
the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
If you haven’t got the time to do it right,
when will you find the time to do it
over?
- Jeffrey Mayer
“We first form habits.
Then habits form us.”
- John C. Maxwell
“Take care to get what you like, or you
will be forced to like what you get.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Whoever loves discipline loves
knowledge, but those who hate to be
rebuked are stupid.”
- Proverbs 12:1 (New Revised Standard
Version)
"No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one can defeat us unless we first
defeat ourselves."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It is not necessary that we should all
think exactly alike, but we should all
think.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Your talent determines what you can
do. Your motivation determines how
much you are willing to do. Your
attitude determines how well you do it.”
- Lou Holtz
"How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you
win."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Your mind, being creative and original,
will make you famous.”
- Jones Soda bottle cap
"Knowledge comes by taking things
apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by
putting things together."
- John A. Morrison