W.E. Woodward Quotes

Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.

To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

Life is meant to be lived in 'the zone', not the stands.

If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.

The gap between intentions and actions is character.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.