Below are some of my favorite quote that I have used in the past. Many of which are worth memorizing and sharing with those around you. There is nothing better than having a great quote on hand at a time when you need it the most. If you know of a good quote, please send it me at contact@jacobnielsen.org
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.” -T. S. Monson
“The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.” -Timothy Ferriss
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.” -Christopher Gardner (Pursuit of Happyness)
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” -Dennis Waitley
“The difference between try and triumph, is that little umph” -Unknown
“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” -John Wooden
“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.” -Charles R. Swindoll
“You can’t control the length of your life – but you can control its width and depth. You can’t control the contour of your face – but you can control its expression. You can’t control the weather – but you can control the atmosphere of your mind. Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you. I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” -Martha Washington
“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way a man uses them.” -Anonymous
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” -Lance Armstrong
“It isn’t the load that weights us down – it’s the way we carry it.” -Anonymous
“A true winner isn’t based on where he hits the target, but how he aims for the target.” -Anonymous
“When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates. And the name on the front is a hell of alot more important than the one on the back! Get that through your head!” -Herb Brooks (Miracle)
“Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren’t well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn’t soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happen on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated.” -Anonymous
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” -Henry Ford
“Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it’s essential that we have many people with initiative if we’re to continue to grow.” -Lewis Lehr
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” -Thomas Edison
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!” -Rocky Balboa (Rocky Balboa)
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club wont be worth a dime.” -Babe Ruth
“Those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt those who are doing it.” -Anonymous
“Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulties?” -Anonymous
“If you only look at what is, you might never obtain what could be.” -Anonymous
“Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.” -William Hewlitt
“Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“Its your attitude, not your, aptitude, which determines your altitude in life.” -Dave Dean
“The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all — doing nothing.” -Ben Franklin
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves— to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.” -Stewart B. Johnson
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” -Oliver Wendell Homes
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you” -Dale Carnegie
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people say can’t be done.” -R. Craig Hansen
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” -Jim Rohn
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles R. Swindoll
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” -Dale Carnegie
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.” -Charles R. Swindoll
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” -Unknown
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” -Peter F. Drucker
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” -John C Maxwell
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.” -John Buchan
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” -Theodore M. Hesburgh
“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.” -Rosabeth Moss Kantor
“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
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.” -Benjamin Franklin
“All Leadership is influence.”-John C. Maxwell
“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” -Faye Wattleton
“Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” -Peter F. Drucker
“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.” -John Quincy Adams
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” -Jack Welch
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” -Kenneth Blanchard
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” -George S. Patton
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” -General Colin Powell
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” -Jim Rohn
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.” -Theodore Hesburgh
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” -Henry Ford
“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” -Adlin Sinclair
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” -Henry Ford
“There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.” -Dale Carnegie
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” -Zig Ziglar
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight” -Jim Rohn
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” -Henry Ford
“People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.” -Zig Ziglar
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford
“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” -Jim Rohn
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” -Henry Ford
“Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.” -Stephen R. Covey
“When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.” -Jim Rohn
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” -Dale Carnegie
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” -Henry Ford
“The way we see the problem is the problem” -Stephen R. Covey
“None of us should be like the fisherman who thinks he has been fishing all day when in reality he has spent most of his time getting to and from the water, eating lunch, and fussing with his equipment. Fishing success is related to how long you have your line in the water, not to how long you are away from the apartment. Some fishermen are away from home for twelve hours and have their line in the water for ten hours. Other fishermen are away from home for twelve hours and have their line in the water for only two hours. This last type may wonder why they do not have the same success as others.” -D. H. Oaks
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” -Zig Ziglar
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” -Henry Ford
“If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” -Zig Ziglar
“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
“The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.” -Henry Ford
“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.” -Eric Hoffer
“We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.” -James E. Burke
“We were born to succeed, not to fail.” -David Thoreau
“When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited.” -Ralph Half
“Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.” -Basil King
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” -Jim Rohn
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
