If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you will see that I love quotes and I post them on a daily basis. Of course there are days were I just don’t get to it but for the most part it happens. Here is a collection of quotes that I posted throughout my MBA:

“If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?” ~Shantideva

‎”You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable,” BOB PROCTOR

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Patrick Henry

“Don’t be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.”~Chiang Kai-Shek

‎”Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them”

‎”The steeper the mountain, the harder the climb, the better the view from the finishing line.”

‎”Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can’t be great.” ~ Machiavelli

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”~ Helen Keller

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” ~ Jesse Jackson

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” ~ Steven Spielberg

‎”My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” Henry Ford

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” ~Winston Churchill

when life gives you lemons, make lemonade..

‎”I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it” – Art Williams

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams

‎”I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles”.~ Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. ~Zig Ziglar

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.~ Zig Ziglar

Try not to become a person of success but a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.” ~ Washington Irving

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.” — Marilyn Monroe

Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ~ Wayne Dyer

“It’s not about who you know or who knows you but rather what your willing to do for the people you’ll never meet.” ~ David H. Milledge II

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. ~ Harold MacMillan

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~ Elbert Hubbard

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“i can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

‎”Men are really simples.Our focus will always be on who we are, what we do, and how much we make and until he feels like he’s achieved his mission women only fit into the cracks of his life….He not thinking bout settling down, havin kids, or building a home with any1 until he’s got all 3 of those things in sync..” ~Trevor Williams

I’ve always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.~ Akeem Olajuwon

Happiness is a positive cash flow. ~Fred Adler

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness,heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice. ~Bethany Hamilton

“Sometimes winning the simple battles remind you that things are not as bad as they seem.” ~David H. Milledge II

‎”Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”-Suzanne Necker

Be careful of the the toes you step on today, for they might be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. ~Neil Patel

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. ~Japanese Proverb

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” ~ Albert Einstein

‎”20s and 30s are for learning, 30s and 40s are for earning” ~ Daniel Keary Katz MBA ’09

“Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.” ~JOHN C. MAXWELL

“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” ~ SCOTT ALEXANDER

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~Nelson Mandela

‎”One thing I like about stones in my path is when I cross them they become my milestones.”

“Do not make promises you cannot keep and honor your obligations.” (Ecclesiastes 7:1)

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. ~ Michael Jordan

“Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.” ~ Sam Walton

‎”If I know more today than I knew yesterday , then tomorrow will be a great day” ~ Jason McCall by way of David Milledge

“Want some, get some, bad enough, take some” ~Snoop by way of Bryan Dunn ’11

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” ~ Gail Devers

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. ~ Anonymous

‎”Never get to high after a win or to low after a loss” Emmanuel Ford ’11

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ~ Spencer Johnson

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb

“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”~ T. Alan Armstrong

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. Arabian Proverbs

I do what I have 2 do,, so I can do what I want 2 do. (Power Thought)

When you learn to discard all weak thoughts and focus only on those that are positive and good, positive and good actions will follow. ~myfriendniro

Actions speak louder than words

‎”Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality…” Napoleon Hill

‎”You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.” – Darwin P. Kingsley

Thought creates character.- Annie Besant

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

“Who you surround yourself with determines your destiny. They will limit you or launch you.”

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up!!

Running errands….”Big thinking precedes great achievement.” Wilferd A. Peterson

‎”Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future.”

‎”My best friend is the someone who brings out the best of me.”

‎”The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”

‎”Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

‎”Smile don’t frown Look up don’t look down Believe in yourself Don’t let yourself go Just be who you are And let your live flow.”

‎”If he loves you he’ll show it, if he truly loves you, you’ll know it, and if it will last forever you will never doubt it.”

‎”Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” Martin Luther King Jr.

‎”Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.” Martin Luther King Jr.

‎”Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly Love deeply Forgive quickly Take chances & never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.” ~ Ayana Young

‎”Change your thoughts and you change the world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

“Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

When ending a day you should never say “I could have”, “I should have”, or “I would have”. At the end of the day you should always say “I did”.

You can bend it and twist it… You can misuse and abuse it… But even God cannot change the Truth.” ~ Michael Levy

“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window or break down a door”

Note to friends: If I trust you do not take it lightly. Trust and honesty are of utmost importance to me. Trust is the foundation to every relationship whether that is personal, business etc and without it, its just a waste of time.

‎”There’s no such thing as a mistake. There’s what you do and what you don’t do”

“Hold on, be strong, no matter what your going through you know its going to be ok today” Wyclef

‎”When you love someone you should be unselfish enough to give them whatever they want.”

“The power of positive thinking can be summed up into one word: faith”David H. Milledge II

‎”Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

‎”Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”

‎”The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”-Vince Lombardi

‎”The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Buddha

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. ~ John Fellows Akers

Fate, is an excuse for why we end up where we do! Our ‘Actions’ predetermine our Destiny, our ‘Reactions’ seal that fate! ~ Carl Stoynoff

‎”The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.”~ Marcus Aurelius

‎”Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal; you are the one who gets burned.” -Buddha

‎”The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi

Don’t fix your life so your left alone right in the middle of it.

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strategy + Risk + Financial Investment = Relationship

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.~David Burns, Intimate Connections

‎”The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmessent

It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ~Tony Robbins

‎”Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile…”Unknown

Anyone can become angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy. ~Aristotle

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

“He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.” John Milton (by way of Jason Braud)

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

‎”Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.” – Pythagoras, 582 BC-507 BC

So much in life is worth celebrating!

‎”Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

‎”Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe” ~ Gail Devers

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

‎”The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.” TENZIN GYATSO, 14TH DALAI LAMA

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” Chinese Proverb

‎”One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is
born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”- Maya Angelou

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. – Anne-Sophie Swetchine

‎”In life every ending is a new beginning.”

‎”Difficulties won are opportunties mastered”~ Winston Churchill

‎”Scars remind us where we’ve been – they don’t have to dictate where we are going.” – Joe Mantegna

‎”Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more”

‎”The future is open and we can make that future be what we want it to be.” – Tim O’Reilly

“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” Anonymous via Jason Braud

Theres a Queen for every King.

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~Tom Robbins

‎”The bravest thing that men do is love women” ~ Mort Sahl

‎”Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond” –Rumi

‎”You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

‎”Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” ~Robert Schuller

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”~Robert Orben

‎”Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.”