Quotes Added in April 2007

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.Anne McCormick

• confidence
• decisiveness

This country [America] was not built by men who relied on somebody else to take care of them. It was built by men who relied on themselves, who dared to shape their own lives, who had enough courage to blaze new trails - enough confidence in themselves to take the necessary risks.J. Ollie Edmunds

• confidence
• Americans
• America
• independence
• risk
• self reliance
• initiative
• chance

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.Bum Phillips

• discipline

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.Pablo Picasso

• work
• inspiration

It is not impossibilities that fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities that we have failed to realize.Robert Mallet

• opportunity
• potential

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.Sir Winston Churchill

• courage
• virtue

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.Sir Winston Churchill

• courage
• speech
• listening

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed to produce.François Fénelon

• courage
• results

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.David Lloyd George

• fear
• risk