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

William James

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Force yourself to prioritize so that you will finish at least that 1 critial task when you have the most energy and the fewest distractions.

Tony Schwartz

Twee regels voor succes. Ten eerste: vertel nooit alles wat je weet.

R. J. Lincoln

Als er al een geheim is voor success, dan is dat het vermogen om dingen te bekijken vanuit zowel het oogpunt van iemand anders als dat van zichzelf.

Henry Ford

Het is onmogelijk alle factoren tevoren in te calculeren, sommige zaken zal men aan het toeval moeten overlaten. Hij die zich om alles zorgen maakt, bereikt niets; doch degene die zich te weinig zorgen maakt, misleidt zichzelf.

Raimondo Montecuccoli

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Brian Tracy

If you can't change something, don't worry about it. If you can change it, focus your energy on solutions, goal setting and progress.

Brooke Griffin

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Priority is from "prior", as in "comes before". If somebody says, "They're *all* priorities," they don't understand the term.

William Pietri

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Confucius

If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

Rabbi Hillel

Bij een goed einde hoort een goed begin.

Confucius

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

In life and business there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act without thought and the second is to not act at all.

Carl Icahn

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

Galileo

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Mae West

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Søren Kierkegaard

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you.

Anwar Sadat

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.

Dale Carnegie

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Jean Paul Sartre

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Robert Collier

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Denis Waitley.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Edward Rickenbacker

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

Gary Sinise

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

I've always said timeboxes weren't about time, but about forcing hard decisions.

Ron Jeffries

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Stephen Covey

They succeed, because they think they can.

Vergilius

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Paul Tournier

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis

Show up. Speak up. Look up. Team up. Never give up. Lift others up.

Rosabeth Kanter

To succeed in life we must stay within our strength zone but move out of our comfort zone.

John Maxwell

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

The measure of success isn't if you have a tough problem, but whether it's the same one you had last year.

John Fulles Dulles

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Denis Waitley

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Robert Kiyosaki

Being easy-going when you have a goal to reach seldom makes the going easy.

Frank Tyger

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Bill Copeland