You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. ~ Thomas J Watson

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. ~ Winston Churchill

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ~ Pierre Corneille

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Resolve says, ‘I will.’ The man says, ‘I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying. ~ Jim Rohn

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it. ~ William Hazlitt

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. ~ Samuel Smiles

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. ~ Brian Tracy

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People do not lack strength; they lack will. ~ Victor Hugo

Enterprise is better than ease. ~ Jim Rohn

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. ~ Frank Crane

So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go. ~ W Clement Stone

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. ~ Jim Rohn

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. ~ Thomas J Peters

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ~ Michael Jordan

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. ~ Samuel Johnson

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~ Aldous Huxley

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~ Booker T Washington

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William Arthur Ward

Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. ~ Brian Tracy

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. ~ Marcus Cicero

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. ~ Jim Rohn

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed. ~ Napoleon Hill