Top 5 Quotes For The Week

Quotes For The Week - Week 2, October 2022

"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." - Thomas J. Watson

"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman not the attitude of the prospect." - W. Clement Stone

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."

- Unknown

"Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives." - Neil Diamond

"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them." - Franz Kafka

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, January 2022

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched." - Thomas Fuller

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. "

- Nancy Astor

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery." - Erma Bombeck

"Don't find customers for your products; find products for your customers." - Seth Godin

 

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Quotes For The Week - Week 5, December 2017

"You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won't have anything to complain about." - Unknown

"Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going." - Seth Godin

"I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it." - Kristin Armstrong

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, December 2017

"There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition." - Napoleon Hill

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." - Unknown

"The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves." - Sidney Madwed

"I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments." - Nathaniel Emmons

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, December 2017

"At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." - Confucius

"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life." - Charles M. Schwab

"Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage." - Muriel Fox

"Treat employees like they make a difference and they will." - Jim Goodnight

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, December 2017

"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays." - Soren Kierkegaard

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed." - Samuel Johnson

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson

"Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others." - John Maxwell

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." - Miles Kington

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, December 2017

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me." - Steve Job

"Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." - Mark Twain

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...the truly wise person is colourblind." - Albert Schweitzer

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, November 2017

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common." - Denis Diderot

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." - Fred Allen

"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man." - Robert Ingersoll

"When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't." - Unknown

"How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do - now." - Epictetus

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Quotes For Week - Week 3, November 2017

"Yes, starting your own business is probably the hardest thing you'll ever do. But it's all worth it. It's worth all the sweat, blood, and tears. Why? Because you can't put a price tag on freedom." - Igor Kheifets

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale

"If we are to achieve results never before accomplished,  we must expect to employ methods never before attempted." - Francis Bacon

"One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke

"To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models." - Jack Canfield

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, November 2017

"An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats." - George Orwell

"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day." - Unknown

"Marketing is too important to be left to a marketing department." - David Packard

"Speaking is easy. Make the audience laugh. Make them cry. Change their lives." - Sean Stephenson

"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build". - Robert Collier

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, November 2017

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity". - Douglas Adams

"Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested." - African Proverb

"Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems." - Unknown

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!" - Bob Marley

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, October 2017

"Christians are to help the poor, not be poor." - Jim Durkin Sr.

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you." - Stephen King

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome". - William James

"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners." - Gary Vaynerchuk

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it." - Debbi Fields

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, October 2017

"Wisdom is not something that you can give to others; it's something others must give to themselves." - Andres Lara

"Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow." - Jack Welch

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear". - Nelson Mandela

"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time." - Leonard Bernstein

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going".- Napoleon Hill

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, October 2017

"The human mind doesn't do well with statements - it operates best with questions." - Noah St. John

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion." - Dale Carnegie

"Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too". - Josh Turner

"It is very difficult to lead today when people are not participating in the decision. You won't be able to attract and retain great people if they don't feel like they are a part of the authorship of the strategy." - Howard Schultz

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together." - James Cash Penney

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, October 2017

"A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot." - German Proverb

"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning." - Jonathan Swift

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain

"Games are won by players who focus on the playing field - not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard." - Warren Buffett

"If you want your employees to reach their full potential, you need to guide them." - Bedros Keuilian

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Quotes For The Week - Week 5, September 2017

"Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people." - Warren Buffett

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.  The leader leads, and the boss drives." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you." - Mark Twain

"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your product or service, and bring their friends with them." - W. Edwards Deming

"...to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless." - Rene Descartes

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, September 2017

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." - Mark Twain

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." - Unknown

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - Greg Anderson

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." - Stanislaw J. Lec

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, September 2017

"If there's one wealth - and life - lesson to remember, this is it: Add value to everything you do." - Craig Ballantyne

"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it."
- Unknown

"Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and to do it so well that it's profitable." - James Rouse

"There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, September 2017

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." - Phillips Brooks

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones; there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbours for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all." - Betty Friedan

"There are two gifts we should give our children:
One is roots, and the other is wings." - Unknown

"It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man." - Democritus

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, September 2017

"Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher

"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." - Unknown

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." - Elbert Hubbard

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, August 2017

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you." - Nora Ephron

"You won't learn much about capitalism at a university. How could you? Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't have much to do with either." - Unknown

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about." - Benjamin Franklin

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, August 2017

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." - John F. Kennedy

"Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you completely understand and empathize with your customer and their life." - Lewis Howes
"The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother." - Unknown

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, August 2017

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." - Dave Meurer

"The words you speak today should be soft and tender...for tomorrow you may have to eat them." - Unknown

"Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building." - Eric Ries

"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance." - Confucius

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, August 2017

 "We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives". - Gary Zukav

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." - Unknown

"All leaders strive to turn their followers into children." - Eric Hoffer

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill

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Quotes For The Week - Week 5, July 2017

"Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so." - Philip Dormer Stanhope

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." - Jack Welch

"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life." - Reverend Edward A. Malloy

"If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business." - Unknown

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten." - Richard Branson

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, July 2017

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking". - Marcus Aurelius

"When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem". - Joyce Meyer

"The purpose of life, is a life of purpose and a life of purpose is created through constant service to those around us." - Robin Sharma

"If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world." - Visvesvaraya

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, July 2017

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." - Mark Twain

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you." - Joel Osteen

"Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."
- Unknown

"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings." - W. Lee Grant

"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." - Wilfred A. Peterson

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, July 2017

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." - Bible

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

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up" - J.M. Power

"The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about." - Unknown

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, July 2017

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson

"To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise."
- Mitchell Caplan

"Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. 'It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue." - Unknown

"Children speak in the field what they hear in the house. " - Scottish Proverb

"I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve" - Albert Schweitzer

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, June 2017

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." - Ernest Dimnet

"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination." - Fitzhugh Dodson

"Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first." - Simon Sinek

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak." - Michel de Montaigne

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, June 2017

"If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence." - Esther Hicks

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu

"I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." - Matt Groening

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." - Unknown

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul." - Dorothy Day

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, June 2017

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along." - Carl Sandburg

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature...is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." - Unknown

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." - Henry Ford

"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant
fertilizing or it will die." - Evelyn Waugh

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, June 2017

"The teacher who does not demand effort of his students does not educate - he merely extends ignorance to new subjects." - Unknown

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."- Helen Keller

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." - Marvin Minsky

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." - Andrew Carnegie

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." - Deepak Chopra

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, May 2017

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it." - John Ruskin

"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn." - Ayn Rand

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood." - William Penn

"It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it...This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race." - Unknown

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?" - John Green

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, May 2017

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." - Steve Jobs

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson

"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy." - Unknown

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn

"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred." - W. N. Taylor

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, May 2017

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development." - Brian Tracy

"A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!" - Unknown

"That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." - Paul Tournier

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." - Michael Jordan

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, May 2017

"Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot." - Leone Levi

"I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them." - Unknown

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." - Jim Rohn

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"He that has acquired learning and not practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed." - Saadi

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Quotes For The Week - Week 5, April 2017

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing." - E. L. Doctorow

"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Anybody who wants the Presidency so much that he'll spend two years organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." - David Broder

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, April 2017

"There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work." - Unknown

"Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily." - James J. Corbett

"The goal of leadership is not to be likeable or loved, but to be proven trustworthy and respected." - Miles Anthony Smith

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance." - Eric Hoffer

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by CHANGE." - Jim Rohn


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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, April 2017

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." - Greek proverb

"Coach, Care, Connect, and Correct. Solve people's problems, encourage their dreams, deliver hope, and give them a reason to believe. But hurry up. Right now people are crying themselves to sleep because you haven’t helped them. Stop procrastinating. Don't hold back." - Craig Ballantyne

"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow." - Unknown

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, April 2017

 "Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." - Henry Fielding

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu

"There are three guidelines for bureaucrats: when in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble." - James Boren

"When a politician says yes he means maybe. When he says maybe he means no, and when he says no he's no politician. When a lady says no she means maybe. When she says maybe she means yes, but when she says yes she's no lady." - Edwina Currie

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything." - Unknown

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, April 2017

"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." - Ed Parker

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

"Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary." - Evan Esar

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." - Roseanne Barr

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali


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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, March 2017

 "Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society." - Benjamin Franklin

"There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think." - Unknown

"To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money." - Visvesvaraya

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." - Groucho Marx

"People want to be involved with other confident people who are doing big things and being positive and powerful. Be out there doing something great today." - Craig Ballantyne

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 Quotes For The Week - Week 3, March 2017

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
- Alvin Toffler

"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships." - Harriet Lerner

"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve.' There can be no other meaning." - Unknown

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." - Edgar Watson Howe

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, March 2017

"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet." - Unknown

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others." - Edward L. Flom

"At the end of your life, all you really have left are people and experiences, not money or things. It's not the stuff that matters in life, but the legacy you will leave. What will yours be & who can help you achieve it?" - Craig Ballantyne

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." - Farrah Gray

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 Quotes For The Week - Week 1, March 2017

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." - Denis Watley

"Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex." - Earl Wilson

"If you do not believe that God is in control and formed you for a purpose, you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness." - William Lane Craig

"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands." - Unknown

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." - Thomas Carlyle

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, February 2017

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Be curious always, because knowledge will not acquire you, you must acquire it." - Sudie Beck

"If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends." - Jeff Bezos

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey

"Many people start with big goals. Yet after they run into a few problems or get distracted by other things that compete for their attention, they lose focus. To keep your goals alive, you must take action every single day for at least two hours. No one should care about your money and your success more than you do." - Donald Trump

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, February 2017

"Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln

"True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact." - Bernard Kelvin Clive

"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe" - Oprah Winfrey

"Become the person you need to become in order to achieve the big goals you want to achieve. Get out of your comfort zone. Resist complacency. Never stop learning. Improve everyday. Demand more from yourself. Never settle for less. If you want advanced results, you must take advanced measures, because you cannot succeed with an average approach." - Craig Ballantyne

"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance." - Terry Pratchett

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, February 2017

 "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead." - Steve Rubel

"Parenting is not an intellectual endeavour. It does not emanate from the head. If it did, the smartest people would be the best parents, and I have never noticed that. Good parenting is a matter of how rooted you are in the steady soil of common sense. The heart and the gut are what make a good parent, not the head. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - James Baldwin

"Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave." - John Ruskin

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, February 2017

"Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative." - Diane Ackerman

"Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference." - Nolan Bushnell

"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." - Johnny Carson

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." - Max DePree

"Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser." - Ann Landers

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, January 2017

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently." - Warren Buffet

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither." - Alan Cohen
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." - John Adams

"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all." - Arthur C. Clarke

"There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work." - Unknown

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, January 2017

"If you wait for inspiration to write; you're not a writer, you're a waiter." - Dan Poynter

"If someone were to pay you 10 cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect from you 5 cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?" - Unknown

"People don't value things that don't have value." - Jon Acuff

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days." - Zig Ziglar

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, January 2017

"Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds)." - Unknown

"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone." - Robert Allen

"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering." - Woody Allen

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win." - Ed Macauley

"Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence." - Napoleon Hill

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, January 2017

"Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains, or even courage, but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal." - Elbert Hubbard

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane." - Hermann Hesse

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." - Clarence Thomas

"We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people." - Unknown

"Time= Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life" - Alan Lakein

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Quotes For The Week - Week 5, December 2016

"The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are." - Jim Henson

“A leader takes people where they want to go.  A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter 

"No one will believe you if you tell him you're a great man, but no one can doubt your greatness if you show it in your actions - Wallace D.Wattles

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves." - Bill Vaughan

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, December 2016

"If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price." - Unknown

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." - C. S. Lewis

"The most useless are those who never change through the years." - James M. Barrie

"Don't stop giving after Christmas is over. Commit to sharing a gift to the world each day. Call someone. Send a text of encouragement or a handwritten thank-you card. Donate to a cause you care about. Share your abundance. Give away what you have and it will come back to you many fold. You cannot out-give the universe." - Craig Ballantyne

"It is never too late to become what we might have been." - George Eliot

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, December 2016

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson

"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'" - Ayn Rand

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting." - Benjamin Franklin

"It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them." - Dalai Lama

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." - John Lennon

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, December 2016

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two." - Lee Lacocca

"You need to give your life a definition; because where there is no definition, there will be deviation." - Bishop David Abioye

"Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees." - Wangari Maathai

"Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore." - Chet Atkins

"If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!!!" - Michael Jordan

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, December 2016

"There are three principles to acquiring knowledge: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the results of that combination." - Denis Diderot

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is still the same problem you had last year." - John Foster Dulles

"If we followed a rich person around all day, we'd eventually say, no wonder he's successful, look at EVERYTHING he does." - Dan Kennedy

'"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, November 2016

"Thought leadership is not about being known; it's about being known for making a difference." - Denise Brosseau

"The world does not reward average people well so I will be extraordinary." - Ted Nicholas

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

"Until a man understands the basic fundamentals of applied faith, his accomplishments are very small." - Unknown

"If you want to be a success, you have to get used to frequently hearing the word no and ignoring it. You will not be successful if you listen to nos. Find a way to turn the 'no' into a 'yes' or find a creative way to sidestep the 'no'. Do not let anybody stop you!" - Donald Trump

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, November 2016

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou

"To have victories in battle is not the pinnacle of skill. To subdue the enemy without engaging in war is the acme of skill." - Sun Tzu

"There are certain things in this world we all have in common, such as time. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it. If you're killing time, it's not murder, but pure suicide." - Lou Holtz

"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems." - Stephen Covey

"If your vision doesn't reach beyond tomorrow, your impact won't ever go beyond today." - Andres Lara

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, November 2016

"To be a winner in life, find a passion, get out of your comfort zone, and be a doer. Learn how to handle pressure, to bounce back from failure, and to never give up." - Donald Trump

"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." -Publilius Syrus

"If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich."- Seneca

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?." - Jim Rohn

"See, the only way a business can become great is to be BIW: Best in the World at what you do." - Robin Sharma

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, November 2016

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." - Oscar Wilde

"The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in your life and thoughts." - George Müller

"Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going." - Seth Godin

"It is a wrong idea to mind your own business. When you mind your business, you'll have no business to mind." - Ferdinand Ibezim

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs." - Zig Ziglar

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Quotes For The Week - Week 5, October 2016

"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." - Lao Tzu

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho

"If a leader can't get a message across clearly to motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter."- Gilbert Amelio

"You didn't wake up one day to be mediocre. So never settle for something that is just 'good enough'. You were put here to challenge yourself and see how far you can push your limits. Never stop moving forward and never stop giving it your all." - Bobby Maximus

"If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals." - Lou Holtz

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, October 2016

"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently." - Tony Robbins

"Having an undeveloped talent is as lame as storing a seed in an air tight glass jar - It would earn you no good." - Asuquo Bassey

"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder." - Blaise Pascal

"Knowledge is not power. APPLIED knowledge is power." - Jeremy Edmondson

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you loose, you have already lost." - George Shultz

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, October 2016

"Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction." - Anne Frank

"Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of doing anything that is great." - Henry IV

"Leadership is not just about giving energy...it's unleashing other people's energy." - Paul Polman

"You can not run away from weakness; you must fight it out...or perish." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"You could just as easily change your life today as you can on New Year’s Day…New opportunity is matter of choice not calendar." - Dan Kennedy

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, October 2016

"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." - Miguel de Cervantes

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try." - Beverly Sills

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." - Benjamin Franklin

"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot". - Jim Rohn

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, October 2016

"Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck" - Abdul Kalam

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." - John Wayne

"Economic recession is a time that differentiates between ordinary and extraordinary firms; the former will fire while the latter will hire for it has a vision to build a sustainable business empire."
- Anuj Somany

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope." - Barack Obama.

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, September 2016

"The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream." - Myles Munroe

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles

"We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead." - William Arthur Ward

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future." - Brian Tracy

"The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use thoughts of other men’s brains proves he has no brain of his own. Brethen, what is true of ministers is true of all our people. You need to read." - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, September 2016

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'." - Erma Bombeck

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker

"Where you are is a result of who you are, but where you go, depends entirely on who you choose to be" - Hal Elrod

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." - Seneca.

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, September 2016

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." - Ray Goforth

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there" - John Buchan

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”–Jim Rohn

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed." - Sebastian Chamfort

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Quotes For The Week - Week 1, September 2016

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it" - M. Scott Peck

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised." - Chinua Achebe

"You can't play at the level you need to as a leader unless you do it with a team" - Michael Hyatt

"If you are going to change your life, you need to start immediately and do it flamboyantly" - William James

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Quotes For The Week - Week 4, August 2016

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is usually interrupted by the man doing it" - Elbert Hubbard

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”–Stephen King

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." - Bruce Lee

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotes For The Week - Week 3, August 2016

"Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep."- Abdul Kalam

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." - Jim Rohn

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones." - Benjamin Franklin

"I salute those who get up early, do the work, overcome one adversity after another, set high goals and expectations for themselves and then show up everyday and do whatever it takes to get it done." - Bedros Keuilian

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

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Quotes For The Week - Week 2, August 2016

"Only a fool believes that any government on earth is "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Government is - and has always been - of the politicians, by the politicians, and for the politicians. That’s why major changes occur only through violent revolution" - Robert Ringer

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” - Stephen King

"Our lives serve as either a warning or an example to others.” - Tony Robbins

"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

"In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking". - George Clemenceau

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