"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on Appearance
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"The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief."

Barron, Frank on Decisions
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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Kipling, Rudyard on Excuses
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"It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on Excuses
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"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."

Bennett, Arnold on Effort
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on Fear
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"First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on Fear
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"You win only if you aren't afraid to lose."

Aoki, Rocky on Failure
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"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

Cole, Edwin Louis on Failure
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"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on Limitation
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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

Lee, Bruce on Limitation
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on Risk
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"An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it."

Ash, Roy on Risk
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"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Gretzky, Wayne on Risk
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"If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding."

West, Meredith on Risk
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"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Adams, John on Desire
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop on Discontent
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on Appearance
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"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us."

Holdcroft, Thomas L. on Life and Living
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"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."

Bennett, William John on Attitude
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

Bentley, Timothy on Attitude
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on Attitude
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"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

Feherty, David on Attitude
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"Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed."

Pope, Alexander on Attitude
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on Attitude
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on Ambition
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"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

Bach, Richard on Belief
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"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."

Barker, Joel A. on Belief
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"It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to."

Barnes, Sondra Anice on Choice
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on Change
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"I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed."

Arata, Tony on Dreams
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"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."

Bacon, Kevin on Sex
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