- the will to win is worthless if you don't have the will to prepare

- luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

- being beaten is often a temporary condition, GIVING UP is what makes it permanent.

- most people are generally nice. they are only mean when they feel threatened.

- every chance you get, is a chance you seize

- as long as you keep a person down, some part of you have to be down there to hold her down, that means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

- do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along --Napoleon Hill

- it's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not -- denis waitley

- don't deflect blame onto the system, the screwed up schooling you got, or the chances no one ever gave you. it makes you powerless and not in control of your destiny -- kimora lee simmons

- it was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moves us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through -- zig ziglar