Quotes

6-15-2022 "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
- Colin Powell @ScottNBeck

12-8-2021 "The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."
- John Burroughs @ScottNBeck

12-1-2021 "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill @ScottNBeck

11-10-2021 "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
- Henry David Thoreau @ScottNBeck

11-3-2021 "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
- William Feather @ScottNBeck

10-13-2021 "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
- W. Clement Stone @ScottNBeck

9-22-2021 "When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."
- Samuel Goldwyn @ScottNBeck

9-8-2021 "You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday."
- Aaliyah @ScottNBeck

9-1-2021 "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton @ScottNBeck

8-11-2021 "It is not length of life, but depth of life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson @ScottNBeck

8-4-2021 "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde @ScottNBeck

7-28-2021 "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
- Mark Twain @ScottNBeck

7-14-2021 "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay @ScottNBeck

6-23-2021 "At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day."
- Simone Biles @ScottNBeck

5-27-2021 "Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne @ScottNBeck

5-19-2021 "Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."
- Nolan Ryan @ScottNBeck

5-12-2021 "Life is too short for long-term grudges."
- Elon Musk @ScottNBeck

4-28-2021 "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
- Robin Williams @ScottNBeck

4-21-2021 "Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington @ScottNBeck

3-31-2021 "Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"
- Donna Karan @ScottNBeck

3-24-2021 "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
- Michelangelo @ScottNBeck

3-17-2021 "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson @ScottNBeck

3-3-2021 "It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret."
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee @ScottNBeck

2-10-2021 "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
- Abraham Lincoln @ScottNBeck

2-3-2021 "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
- Joyce Brothers @ScottNBeck

12-2-2020 "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
- Edmund Hillary @ScottNBeck

11-25-2020 "Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."
- Karl Barth @ScottNBeck

11-18-2020 "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson @ScottNBeck

11-11-2020 "Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go."
- Bernard Malamud @ScottNBeck

11-4-2020 "The most important thing is to try and inspire people
so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."
- Kobe Bryant @ScottNBeck

10-28-2020 "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson @ScottNBeck

10-21-2020 "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
- William Shakespeare @ScottNBeck

10-14-2020 "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
- Helen Keller @ScottNBeck

10-7-2020 "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
- Lyndon Johnson @ScottNBeck

9-30-2020 "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."
- Dalai Lama @ScottNBeck

9-23-2020 "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James @ScottNBeck

9-16-2020 "Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
- Michael Jordan @ScottNBeck

8-26-2020 "I want every little girl who’s told ‘she’s bossy,’ to be told instead 'She has LEADERSHIP SKILLS.'"
- Sheryl Sandberg @ScottNBeck

7-15-2020 "A good laugh is sunshine in the house."
- William Makepeace Thackeray @ScottNBeck

12-11-2019 "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Zig Ziglar @ScottNBeck

11-20-2019 "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
- Og Mandino @ScottNBeck

11-13-2019 "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
- Eleanor Roosevelt @ScottNBeck

10-30-2019 "Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
- Daniel Bell @ScottNBeck

10-16-2019 "Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation."
- Dean Kamen @ScottNBeck

10-2-2019 "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
- Sigmund Freud @ScottNBeck

9-18-2019 "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison @ScottNBeck

9-11-2019 "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
- Anton Chekhov @ScottNBeck

8-28-2019 "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore Isaac Rubin @ScottNBeck

8-21-2019 "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
- Socrates @ScottNBeck

8-7-2019 "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
- Buddha @ScottNBeck

7-31-2019 "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
- Napoleon Hill @ScottNBeck

7-17-2019 "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
- Confucius @ScottNBeck

7-10-2019 "When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others."
- Dalai Lama @ScottNBeck

6-26-2019 "Peace begins with a smile."
- Mother Teresa @ScottNBeck

6-19-2019 "Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace."
- Christie Brinkley @ScottNBeck

5-8-2019 "Where there is no vision, there is no hope."
- George Washington Carver @ScottNBeck

4-24-2019 "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs @ScottNBeck

4-17-2019 "The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
- Maimonides @ScottNBeck

3-13-2019 "A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington @ScottNBeck

3-6-2019 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. @ScottNBeck

2-27-2019 "Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."
- Bob Marley @ScottNBeck

2-20-2019 "To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
- Pierre Corneille @ScottNBeck

12-12-2018 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
- Lao Tzu @ScottNBeck

11-29-2018 "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
- Pablo Picasso @ScottNBeck

11-14-2018 "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey @ScottNBeck

11-7-2018 "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
- Reba McEntire @ScottNBeck

10-31-2018 "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
- Elbert Hubbard @ScottNBeck

10-24-2018 "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
- George Sand @ScottNBeck

10-10-2018 "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson @ScottNBeck

9-26-2018 "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe @ScottNBeck

9-19-2018 "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
- H. G. Wells @ScottNBeck

9-12-2018 "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
- Dalai Lama XIV @ScottNBeck

9-5-2018 "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
- Elon Musk @ScottNBeck

8-22-2018 "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
- Nikos Kazantzakis @ScottNBeck

8-15-2018 "Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
- Aristotle @ScottNBeck

8-2-2018 "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou @ScottNBeck

7-25-2018 "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson @ScottNBeck

7-18-2018 "Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
- Stephen Hawking @ScottNBeck

6-27-2018 "The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain @ScottNBeck

6-20-2018 "It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela @ScottNBeck

6-14-2018 "Either I will find a way, or I will make one."
- Philip Sidney @ScottNBeck

5-16-2018 "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller @ScottNBeck

5-3-2018 "I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget."
- Guillermo del Toro @ScottNBeck

2-1-2018 "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
- Jane Austen @ScottNBeck

1-25-2018 "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante @ScottNBeck

1-18-2018 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan @ScottNBeck

12-14-2017 "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson @ScottNBeck

12-7-2017 "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
- Steve Jobs @ScottNBeck

11-16-2017 "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
- Bruce Lee @ScottNBeck

11-9-2017 "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein @ScottNBeck

11-2-2017 "Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
- Malcolm Gladwell @ScottNBeck

10-5-2017 "Know thyself."
- Socrates @ScottNBeck

9-28-2017 "Life is too short to be living someone else’s dream."
- Hugh Hefner @ScottNBeck

9-21-2017 "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh @ScottNBeck

9-7-2017 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
- Miguel de Cervantes @ScottNBeck

8-31-2017 "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
- Albert Einstein @ScottNBeck

8-22-2017 "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
- Maya Angelou @ScottNBeck

8-3-2017 "A product that needs a manual to work is broken."
- Elon Musk @ScottNBeck

7-27-2017 "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
- Robert Frost @ScottNBeck

7-20-2017 "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War @ScottNBeck

7-13-2017 "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
- Bruce Lee @ScottNBeck

6-29-2017 "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean @ScottNBeck

6-15-2017 "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford @ScottNBeck

6-8-2017 "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
- Lorraine Hansberry @ScottNBeck

6-1-2017 "Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them."
- Audrey Hepburn @ScottNBeck

5-25-2017 "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
- Marcus Aurelius @ScottNBeck

5-18-2017 "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop @ScottNBeck

5-11-2017 "Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me."
- Bob Marley @ScottNBeck

5-4-2017 "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt @ScottNBeck

4-26-2017 "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa @ScottNBeck

4-20-2017 "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner @ScottNBeck

4-12-2017 "I have never met a man so ignorant
that I couldn't learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei @ScottNBeck

4-6-2017 "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
- Paulo Coelho @ScottNBeck

3-29-2017 "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
- Sigmund Freud @ScottNBeck

3-22-2017 "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns @ScottNBeck

3-15-2017 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
- William Shakespeare @ScottNBeck

3-8-2017 "Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
- Amelia Earhart @ScottNBeck

3-1-2017 "No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
- Elbert Hubbard @ScottNBeck

2-23-2017 "I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
- Carl Sandburg @ScottNBeck

2-15-2017 "A strong spirit transcends rules."
- Prince @ScottNBeck

2-07-2017 "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
- Abraham Lincoln @ScottNBeck

2-01-2017 "Every noble work is at first impossible."
- Thomas Carlyle @ScottNBeck

1-25-2017 "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it."
- Muhammad Ali @ScottNBeck

1-19-2017 "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
- Helen Keller @ScottNBeck

1-11-2017 "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur @ScottNBeck

1-3-2017 "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius @ScottNBeck

12-20-2016 "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
- Albert Einstein @ScottNBeck

12-13-2016 "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill @ScottNBeck

12-6-2016 "Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today."
- Marcus Valerius Martialis @ScottNBeck

11-29-2016 "I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think."
- Socrates @ScottNBeck

11-22-2016 "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
- George Washington @ScottNBeck

11-16-2016 "If everyone has to think outside the 'box', then maybe it is the box that needs to be examined."
- Malcolm Gladwell @ScottNBeck

11-4-2016 "The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost @ScottNBeck

10-26-2016 "You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche @ScottNBeck

10-13-2016 "Everything is possible.
The impossible just takes longer."
- Dan Brown @ScottNBeck

10-5-2016 "Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
- Plato @ScottNBeck

9-26-2016 "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt @ScottNBeck

9-14-2016 "He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
- Confucius @ScottNBeck

9-6-2016 "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
- Charles Darwin @ScottNBeck

8-29-2016 "Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau @ScottNBeck

8-18-2016 "The word impossible
is not in my dictionary."
– Napoléon Bonaparte @ScottNBeck

8-11-2016 "It's kind of fun
to do the impossible."
– Walt Disney @ScottNBeck

7-28-2016 "All great achievements
require time."
– Maya Angelou @ScottNBeck

7-22-2016 "A goal without a plan
is just a wish."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry @ScottNBeck

7-6-2016 "We need men who can dream of things
that never were."
– John Keats @ScottNBeck

6-29-2016 "A large paradigm shift
is not a trend line."
– Scott Beck @ScottNBeck

6-17-2016 "Sometimes the questions are
complicated and the answers are simple."
– Dr. Seuss @ScottNBeck

6-7-2016 "Either write something worth reading or
do something worth writing."
– Benjamin Franklin @ScottNBeck

5-27-2016 "Failure is the condiment
that gives success its flavor."
– Truman Capote @ScottNBeck

5-18-2016 "Talent hits a target no one else can hit.
Genius hits a target no one else can see."
– Arthur Schopenhauer @ScottNBeck

5-11-2016 "It’s not what you look at that matters,
it’s what you see."
– Henry David Thoreau @ScottNBeck

5-3-2016 "Intelligence plus character
-that is the goal of true education."
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. @ScottNBeck

4-27-2016 "Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself."
– George Bernard Shaw @ScottNBeck

4-20-2016 "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
– Dalai Lama XIV @ScottNBeck

4-14-2016 "I want to put a ding in the universe."
– Steve Jobs @ScottNBeck

4-8-2016 "Don’t take for granted what you have today, it could all be gone tomorrow."
– Scott N. Beck @ScottNBeck

4-1-2016 "I have not failed, I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
– Thomas Edison @ScottNBeck

3-25-2016 "Well done is better than well said."
– Benjamin Franklin @ScottNBeck

3-21-2016 "I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have."
– Thomas Jefferson @ScottNBeck

3-19-2016 "I have no special talents.
I am only passionately curious."
– Albert Einstein @ScottNBeck