Ability 

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter

Achievement

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

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

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder

The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge.
Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa on wisdom

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus

Action

***e knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.
Michelle Keesling

Nothing happens until I make it happen.
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You can’t build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Just Do It!
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi

Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin

Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.
Irish Proverb

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
Helen Gahagan Douglas

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.
Source Unknown

Good intentions are not good enough... ultimately we are measured by our actions.
Source Unknown

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, bu they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

To do nothing is in every man's power.
Samuel Johnson

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert

Courage 

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton

Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Anonymous

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

You can't test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Determination

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

There is no chance, no destiny, no ***e, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
John J. Watson

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!
Catherine Pulsifer

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer

We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brock

Difficulties

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail

The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Roy Lessin

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William E. Channing

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Source Unknown

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland

For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Gunderson

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African Proverb

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi

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

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Dreams

Among all human constructions the only ones that avoid the dissolving hands of time are castles in the air.
Frederico de Roberto

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.
H.F. Hedge

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - if this; dream a great dream.
John A. Appleman

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein

All men of action are dreamers.
James G. Huneker

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert F. Kennedy

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
K Denis Waitley

Without dreams, there is no reality!
Luis B. Couto

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump

Enthusiasm 

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be - enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Kahlil Gibran

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

Excuses

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller

He who excuses himself accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Don Wilder

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
Yiddish Proverb

No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.
Catherine Pulsifer

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois La Rochefoucauld

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George W. Carver

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Goals 

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Watley

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Edmund Hillary

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
Kurt Thomas

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Marsha Sinetar

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Nobl