Will to Win & Succeed

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

-- Eddie Robinson


"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."

-- Bobby McFerrin


"Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind."

-- Marianne Williamson

Expect Setback

"You'll experience setbacks and delays along the way, and this is to be expected, so don't feel discouraged by them. A setback or delay is not failure as much as a signal that you're going back to what's familiar, if only to find out you don't have to do that anymore."

-- Nancy Anderson


"Any significant long-term change requires long-term practice, whether that change has to do with playing the violin or learning to be a more open, loving person.

We all know people who say that they were permanently changed by experiences of a moment or a day or a weekend.

When you check it out you'll generally discover that those who were permanently changed had spent considerable time preparing for their life-changing experience."

-- Michael Murphy and George Leonard

Simple Attraction Law

"The very simple law of attraction is the very simple principle that you are a human being living in a certain time and in a certain space and that your alignment through thoughts, feelings, and actions will bring exactly to you what you have aligned yourself with."

-- Marie Diamond


"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

-- Albert Einstein


"Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

Confidence People

"Confidence people have a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. They feel confident that they have tasks to perform in their time on Earth - they give freely of their time, energy and other resources without expectation of anything in return."

-- Rob Yeung


"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

-- Samuel Johnson


"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."

-- Buddha


"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people."

-- Jean de la Fontaine

Your Life Plan

"For many, sacrificing a dream is a very private misery, as most people are frightened to share their dreams with their family for fear of unbalancing them. Imagine how much better you would feel going to work each day if you knew that working in that job was just one part of your life plan to get you in front of that wheel?"

-- Nigel Risner


"The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think."

-- A Course in Miracles


"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

-- Oprah Winfrey

Follow Your Hearts

"We all know that if we follow our hearts we won't regret what we do, but how many of us actually do anything about it"

-- Nigel Risner


"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

-- G. K. Chesterton


"Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true.
"I can't" often means "I won't."
You can change "I won't" to "I will" with will power."

-- Marcia Wieder


"What you will be is what you do."
-- Buddha

Have Purpose

"If what you are doing is truly your passion, could anything stop you from doing it? Just one thing: you. Without passion, purpose means nothing. Without purpose, passion is utterly wasted."

-- Nigel Risner


"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

-- Napoleon Hill


"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter."

-- Peter F. Drucker


"Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it."

-- Osho

Be Passionate About It

"If you aren't going to be passionate about it, don't do it. Don't deny your dreams. Chase your passion, not your pension. Find purpose in your passion, let your purpose be your passion."

-- Nigel Risner


"Good habits result from resisting temptation."

-- Ancient Proverb


"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be In The Room

"When you are in the room, be in the room! I realize that you will have many other things going on in the world when you begin your process. Handle what needs to be handled and complete any obligations or commitments that you have made. Focus on the task at hand and Get Busy!"

-- Nigel Risner


"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!"

-- Jalal Uddin Rumi


"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

-- Rumi


"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion."

-- Barry Lopez

A Good Solid List

"Make a good solid list of reasons why you want what you say you want. The more reasons you have to accomplish the goal, the more likely you are to achieve the results you want."

-- Nigel Risner


"He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll


"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

-- Seneca


"Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved."

-- Robert H. Lauer

Genuine Passion

"If you are genuinely passionate about something, there really isn't anything that can get in the way of success. Only you can make it, only you can break it."

-- Nigel Risner


"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

-- Arthur Rubinstein


"There's a self-expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little-known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for."

-- Elaine St. James


"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

-- Hans Margolius

Every Successful Person

"Every successful person in the world has at some point been a failure. What separates individuals is not how many times they fall, but how fast they get back up and try again."

-- Nigel Risner


"Chase your passion - not your pension. If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway."

-- Denis Waitley


"Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man."

-- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar


"Your highest success demands that you find, fill and occupy that place in life for which you are best fitted.

The infallible method consists in full, persistent effort to discover such place, coupled with full, persistent determination to make the utmost best of present conditions."

-- The Power Within

Reality of Negative Thoughts

"The reality of constantly focusing on the negative is that we usually end up with exactly what we were trying to avoid in the first place."

-- Nigel Risner


"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

-- Jawaharlal Nehru


"Most of the time, we fall in love but can’t remain there. The world then calls the state we were in a delusion or infatuation ... But we merely lacked, or someone else lacked, the emotional skills to hold on to the magic when the morning came. ... In truth, we can go to the moon and retain its magic for a lifetime."

-- Marianne Williamson


"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone."

-- Suzanne Gordon

Fear and Negative Self-Image

"The difference is attitude and outlook or in reality it is the extent to which we allow our own fear and negative self-image to dominate our behaviour."

-- Nigel Risner


"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

-- Matthew Arnold


"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

-- Epictetus



"Nothing new can come into your life without the field of gratitude."

-- Rev. Michael Beckwith

Modelling To Learn

"Modelling is key to understanding how to reshape the way we do things, there's no better way to feel comfortable about change than learning from someone else's experience."

-- Nigel Risner


"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

-- Shel Silverstein


"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

-- Buddha


"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

-- Buddha

Like Your Hero

"In my opinion, if you want to be like your hero, you need to start acting like them in your everyday life."

-- Nigel Risner


"There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

-- Nelson Mandela


"Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"True magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success in Job

"If you want more success in your job then start emulating the behavior of successful people. It isn't as difficult as it sounds. After all, it didn't take much effort to smile, did it?"

-- Nigel Risner


"In order to learn the art of dying , one must know completely -- the art of living."

-- S. N. Goenka


"Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought."

-- Deepak Chopra


"Live your life and forget your age."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

Focus on Today Despostis

"You must live in the present and focus on today's deposits. Invest your time wisely and you will receive the utmost in health, happiness and success."

-- Nigel Risner


"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte


"A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. | There's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

-- Wayne Dyer

Hardest Step in Achievement

"Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment - a true decision. Carrying out your commitment is often much easier than the decision itself, so make your decisions intelligently but make them quickly."

-- Anthony Robbins


"When you attract a person without effort to that end, your magnetism, whether natural or acquired, is unconscious.

When you put forth magnetic effort, it is of course, conscious.

When you attract persons by the deliberate application of the methods of a system, your magnetism has become an art."

-- The Power Within

Decide for Long-Term Result

"Deciding to commit yourself to long-terms result, rather than short-term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. Failing to do so this can cause not only massive financial or societal pain, but sometimes even the ultimate personal pain."

-- Anthony Robbins


"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things."

-- Leonardo da Vinci


"Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one."

-- Deepak Chopra


"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'"

-- E. M. Kelly

Analytical Though Everyday

"A mind that is forced or coaxed into analytical thought every day seems to keep on unfolding and developing greater powers of interpretation."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."

-- Martin Luther King, Sr.


"All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date."

-- Arthur Wang


"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas -- a place where history comes to life."

-- Norman Cousins

Transform Picture To Reality

"I realize that the dominating thoughts of my mind eventually reproduce themselves in outward, bodily action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore I will concentrate my mind for thirty minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to be, by creating a mental picture of this person and then transforming that picture into reality through practical service."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."

-- Muhammad Ali

Success is Intelligent Effort

"I believe that success is the result of intelligent effort and does not depend upon luck or sharp practices or double-crossing friends, fellow men or my employer."

-- Napoleon Hill


"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

-- Seneca


"No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child."

-- Emma Goldman


"Utilizing your conscious mind to direct the subconscious mind to enter into communication and harmony with the universal mind is the secret of personal power."

-- Delfin Knowledge System

To Be Winner

"Winners take chances like everyone else,
They fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.

Winners don't give up,
When life gets tough, they hang in until the going gets better.

Winners are flexible.
They realize there is more than one way and they are willing to try others.

Winners know they are not perfect.
They respect their weaknesses while making the most of their strengths.

Winners fall, but they don't stay down.
They stubbornly refuse to let a fall keep them from climbing.

Winners don't blame fate for their failures,
Nor luck for their successes.

Winners accept responsibility for their lives.

Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.
From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.

Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when it's hard,
Even when others can't see where they are going.

Winners are patient.
They know a goal is only as worthy as the effort that's required to achieve it.

Winners are people like you.
They make this world a better place to be."

-- Nancye Sims

The Self Choice of Action

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

-- John Dewey


"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe."

-- Claudia Black


"A poem should not mean. But be."

-- Archibald MacLeish


"You can never get to peace and inner security without first acknowledging all of the good things in your life. If you're forever wanting and longing for more without first appreciating things the way they are, you'll stay in discord."

-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Sufficient Self-Confidence

"He succeeded because he deliberately charged his own mind with sufficient self-confidence to make that mind an irresistible force."

-- Napoleon Hill


"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

-- Henry Ward Beecher


"A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect."

-- Chinese Proverb

Long Term Happiness

"One of the most important decisions you can make to ensure your long-term happiness is to decide to use whatever life gives you in the moment."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Health is not valued till sickness comes."

-- Dr. Thomas Fuller


"The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them."

-- Tony Robbins


"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

-- Ralph Nader

Our Past Our Future

"We don't have to allow the programming of our past to control our present and future."

-- Anthony Robbins


"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."

-- Cicero


"Love ... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

-- Kahlil Gibran


"Nearly every person who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged.

That's not the place to become discouraged."

-- Thomas Edison

Your Ultimate Destiny

"It's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful."

-- Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy (Dr. V)


"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

-- Greg Anderson


"In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are."

-- Arnold H. Glasgow