 "Every situation is an opportunity to be your best."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."
Barbara Bush
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
James Allen
"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else."
 George Halas
"When you discover and embrace your career purpose, it feels right."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"Always do your best. Don't stop just because someone doesn't give you credit."
Mary Rosen
"A man's word and intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind."
 Jim Nantz
"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."
Oscar Wilde
"Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society."
Jack Kemp
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Excellence -- moral, ethical, personal excellence -- is worth whatever it costs."
Charles Swindoll
"Choose the best, then put the issue to rest."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen."
Seth Godin
 "Ideas are any man's greatest asset."
Harvey Firestone
"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."
Mary Lou Retton
"To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!"
Lao Tsu
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer
"If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way."
Linda Ellerbee
"You can make the highest choice in response to any situation."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Do the best job and you'll never have any competition."
Christopher Casey
"If I were asked to give what I consider the most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it come, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"
Ann Landers
"Leaders conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts."
John Gardner
"By honoring feelings, thoughts, and motives, we establish our most rewarding connections."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself."
Thomas Carlyle
 "The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted."
Elizabeth Dole
"When you have choices, choose the best. When you have no choice, do your best."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
Harvey Firestone
"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."
Hesiod, 8th Century B.C.
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
Pablo Picasso
"The most respectful attitude you can offer someone is your unconditional interest."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things."
 Peter F. Drucker
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
W. Somerset Maugham
"I strongly believe that the responsibility of leadership is to shape the debate -- to practice and project the right attributes -- whether in a business enterprise, in our society, and even in our religions."
Farooq Kathwari, CEO, Ethan Allen
"Every noble work is at first impossible."
Thomas Carlyle
"Keep your focus on what is going on inside of you and take responsibility for your own safety."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
Mahatma Gandhi
 "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
Alexander Graham Bell
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."
Walter Lippman
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Every person I work with knows more than me. My job is to listen carefully to find out how to best use it to serve our collective best interests."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."
Pearl S. Buck
"When resolving conflict, consider which alternatives will help those involved meet their needs in ways that move the organization closest to its supreme goals."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."
 Lawrence Welk
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
Stephen R. Covey
"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Take the best action to achieve what is most important right now."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking
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