By Tom Polanski, EVP, eBrand Media and eBrand Interactive

Every now and then I like to share quotes that I think are inspiring, funny, or worthy of contemplation. I’ve published many over the past few months and would like to share these too. 

“Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging.”
– Duke Snider, Baseball Player

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
– Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
– Willie Nelson, Musician

“Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”
– Dorothea Brande, Writer

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” 
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(Okay enough with Johann Wolfgang)

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese Proverb

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
– Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company

“The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.”
– Leonard Nimoy, Actor

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader

“Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”
– Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

“Son, those who are the most discilined are the freest”
– Words uttered to me by an elderly gentleman I met a while back. 

“We begin realizing that courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is doing what we feel we need to do, or is right to do, even in the presence of fear. 
– Bo Lozoff, Author