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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism. Charles 'Tremendous' Jones American Motivational Speaker, Author 
If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't. Charles 'Tremendous' Jones American Motivational Speaker, Author 
Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities. Charles 'Tremendous' Jones American Motivational Speaker, Author 
Action expresses priorities. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behaviour. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behaviour that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen. Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer 
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles A. Lindbergh 1902-1974, American Pilot, Made The First Flight From New York To Paris 
What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all. Charles A. Lindbergh 1902-1974, American Pilot, Made The First Flight From New York To Paris 
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it. Charles A. Lindbergh 1902-1974, American Pilot, Made The First Flight From New York To Paris 
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. Charles A. Stoddard  
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. Charles A. Stoddard  
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 1804-1869, French Critic 
Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success. Charles B. Rouss  
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. Charles Barkley American Basketball Player 
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. Charles Barkley American Basketball Player 
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. Charles Barkley American Basketball Player 
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvellous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvellous; but we do not notice it. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardour and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, colour, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet 



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