Celebrity quotes

August 04, 2025

Celebrity quotes

"Step up the stairs or stare at the steps."

- Ralph Nichols

"There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength."
- Leo Muir

"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."
- Jack Dixon

" Kindness kills."

Author Unknown --- Submitted by Danielle Queen --- Wyoming

My mother told me this when I was a little girl and it's always stuck with me.

" A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting his thoughts."

James Allen

" Make one person happy each day and in 40 years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least."

Charley Willey

" Don't judge people by how they disappoint you but judge them by their reaction when you disappoint them."

" Don't look outside for happiness, because the happiness is inside of you!!"

Everything is in your mind!! Nobody can give you that because you already have it!!!

" I never look back and feel I haven't succeeded, but I do to see what I have learned. I always look forward, with what I have learned and see success in my future, NOW!"

" Don't spend time with someone who doesn't care about spending time with you."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez --- Submitted by V. Williams --- NSW, Australia

I like this quote cause it brings things back to you. If you really like someone and have fun with them, they must feel the same way for the relationship to be true. However if you know that particular person does not feel the same way or makes you feel bad, you must sacrifice them for your own happiness.

" Amateurs hope. Professional work."

Garson Kanin

" There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right."

Bill Cosby

" Undoubtedly the biggest obstacle to achieving success is your own negative self-belief."

John McGrath --- Submitted by Quentin Mushins --- Victoria, Australia

John McGrath is a highly successfully real estate agent/author in Sydney Australia. After just finishing his latest book for the third time 'YOU inc', my personal and professional life continue to go from strength to strength. I highly recommend his book to anyone who wants to attract amazing success into their life and business.

" You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Wayne W. Dyer

" Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."

Voltaire

" Confusion follows /sticks to you only when you don't risk to take a stand on the issue you are confronting."

Author Unknown --- Submitted by Melvin Pereira --- Gujrat, India

This quote gave me clarity on how not to stay confused endlessly; it worked like a miracle.

" To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."

W. Somerset Maugham

" Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are."

Napolean Hill

" One never stands taller or more firmly grounded than when they stand on their principles."

" Commitment is doing what you said you would do after the feeling you said it in has passed."

St. Camillus de Lellis

" It is not an act of intellect which makes people change themselves for the better but an act of the will. For intelligence without courage is as static as courage without intelligence is rash. It is intelligence with courage the results in the necessary act of the will we need in order to bring aboutconstructive change in ourselves."

Sidney J. Harris

" When we meet something that's tricky, if we say 'oh good' instead of dismaying, we have more resources and are validating our ability to handle it. When we dismay, we have already put a block up between it and ourselves from our best self dealing with it."

" Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people."

Spencer Johnson

" Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."

Thomas Henry Huxley

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Author Unknown

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~Logan Pearsall Smith

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. ~B.C. Forbes

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. ~Arthur McAuliff (Thank you, Fernanda.)

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~Author Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. ~Author Unknown

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

--Brian Tracy

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

--Albert Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

--Jim Rohn

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

--David Joseph Schwartz

Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.

--Tom Hopkins

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

--Booker T. Washington

Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

--Richard C Miller

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of you life. If you don't, life controls you.

--Anthony Robbins

The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential

--Paul J. Meyer

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

--Barbara Hershey

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

--Anonymous

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

--David Bly

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

--Jim Rohn

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

--Roger W Babson statistician, columnist

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

--Grenville Kleiser

Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

--William A. Ward

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

--Peter F. Drucker

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. it's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

--Margaret Thatcher

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work

--Bernard Shaw

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

--George E. Allen

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

--Thomas Edison

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

--Jennifer James

Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships -- and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen; seek new ideas and advice.

--Ruth Scott Pres. & CEO, Assoc. for Portland (OR) Progress

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'.

--Dick Fosbury won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

--Mark Caine

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

--Unknown

Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go -- and then do it.

--Ann Landers

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil

--Paul Getty

People with goals succeed, because they know where they're going.

--Earl Nightingate

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work learning from failure.

--General Colin Powell

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.

--Sydney Bremer

The road to success is always under construction.

--Unknown

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious

--Unknown

Listen a hundred times, Ponder a thousand times, Speak once!"

--Unknown

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to attempt

--William Shakespeare

Private victories precede public victories

--Stephen R. Covey

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

--Henry Ward Beecher

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

--Bob Brown

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

--Eddie Cantor

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

--Robert Collier

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

--Leroy Van Dyke

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

--T. S. Eliot

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

* Henry Ward Beecher

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

* Irving Berlin

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

* Albert Einstein

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

* Flaubert

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

* Storm Jameson

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

* W. Somerset Maugham

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

* Thomas Merton

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

* Arthur Miller

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

* Chinese Proverb

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

* Betty Anderson Stanley

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

* Anne Sullivan

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

* Barbara Walters

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

* Booker T. Washington

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ---Bill Gates Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ---Robert F. Kennedy If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ---John D. Rockefeller For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. ---Goethe Failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ---B. F. Skinner The haves and have nots can often be traced back to the dids and did nots. ---Unknown Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ---T.S. Eliot The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ---Chinese Proverb I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ---Helen Keller The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ---Tom Clancy When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. --- Jim Rohn I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. --- Abraham Lincoln You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ---Andre Gide With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp. ---Jim Loehr There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men are forced to meet. ---William F. Halsey The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ---William James Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future. ---Rabbi Nochem Kaplan Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. ---Willis Whitney The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. ---Martina Navratilova It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts. ---Addison Walker Shoot for the moon, but even if you miss, you will still land among the stars. ---Les Brown Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. --Walter Elliott It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. ---Vince Lombardi One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. ---Gene Brown I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will. ---Edward Everett Hale It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you. ---Rodney Dangerfield Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ---Confucius Some people succeed because they are destined to. But most people succeed because they are determined to. ---Anonymous I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be. ---Lauren Bacall First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ---Epictetus Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star. ---Anonymous Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell, and rose again. ---Unknown Get up one more time than you're knocked down. ---Anonymous You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves. ---Galileo Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit. ---German Proverb You never really lose until you quit trying. ---Mike Ditka, NFL Football Coach In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. ---Albert Einstein Success is a state of mind. ---Joyce Brothers The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ---Eleanor Roosevelt I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ---Bill Cosby You have brains in your head. Your feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. --- Dr. Seuss Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ---John Andrew Holmes The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. ---John Schaar To dream of the person you would like to be, is to waste the person you are. Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ---Illusions, Richard Bach I've learned that there is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it. ---From "The Alchemist" We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. ---Georges Duhamel The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ---Wilson Mizner You're my best friend. Best friend with benefits. ---"Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morisette "Friendship," said Pooh, "is a very Comforting sort of Thing." --- A Very Wise Bear I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. ---Walt Whitman There are good ships, and there are bad ships, but the best ships are friendships. ---Unknown Life is nothing without friendship. ---Unknown The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. In the end you won't remeber the words of your enemies, but the silence of your friends. ---Martin Luther King Jr. A friend is someone who believes in you even when you've ceased to believe in yourself. To dislike yourself is to insult your friends. Friends bring sunshine when everyone else is raining on your parade. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ---Seneca In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips. ---Unknown Friendship is not a two way road... it is a one way road traveled be two people together-hand in hand. True friends are like diamonds, the more rare they are, the more they are valued There are no rules in friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ---William Hazlitt Friends are like a puzzle, if one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced, and the puzzle will never be whole again. Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. ---Henry Ward Beecher What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ---Shakespeare He who does not know his opponent's viewpoint does not completely understand his own. ---Anonomous Sir, I have given you an argument. I am not obliged to give you an understanding. ---Samuel Johnson I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death you're right to say it. ---Voltaire Speak only well of people and you need never whisper. ---Fortune Cookie Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at the present. ---English Proverb Those who wish to sing always find a song. ---Swedish proverb May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day; that I might never know the world without you. ---Hungarian Traditional If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ---Ancient Buddhist Proverb There are no formalities between the closest of friends. ---Japanese Proverb Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. ---German Proverb Life's journey is the reward. ---Chinese Proverb Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit. ---German Proverb Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ---African Proverb An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. ---Dutch Proverb It's good to be clever, but not to show it. ----French Proverb In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. ---French Proverb Life is half spent before one knows what it is. ---French Proverb Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves. ---German Proverb No answer is also an answer. ----German Proverb Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. ---German Proverb To him who is determined it remains only to act. ---Italian Proverb He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. ---Italian Proverb The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow. ---Norwegian Proverb For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. ---Traditional Saying The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ---Chinese Proverb When you talk, you can only say something that you already know. When you listen, you learn what someone else knows. ---Unknown There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart -- pursue those Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ---Oliver Wendell Holmes Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses. ---Arlen Price All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head. ---Suzanne Chazin Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. ---Golda Meir I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. ---Charles Shulz Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart. ---Source Unknown If every time I thought of him I put a rock in my pocket, I'd have him in my heart, and the world in my pocket. ---Unknown The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. ---Blaise Pascal The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart. ---Helen Keller A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance but not in heart. ---Unknown The human heart feels thing the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. ---Unknown At some point your heart will tell itself what to do. ---Unknown There's only so much heart in a girl to be broken. ---Unknown Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. ---Wizard of Oz Sometimes I wish I was little again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ---Unknown The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ---James Barrie An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ---W. Somerset Maugham The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ---C.S. Lewis Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave -- but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. ---Robert Orben Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking when we ought to feel and feeling when we ought to think. ---Unknown How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. ---Anne Dillard Our life is frittered away by detail; Simplify, simplify. ---Henry David Thoreau To fear love is to fear life. ---Unknown Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ---Eddie Cantor The real meaning of life is not to fret and bug yourself about what the real meaning of life is. ---WSJ Cartoon Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet. ---Unknown My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it. Hugh Prather You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough. ---Joe E. Lewis Worry affects the circulation... the heart... the glands... the whole nervous system and profoundly affects the health. I have never known a man who died from overwork but many who have died from doubt. ---Charles W. Mayo The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. ---Ruth Benedict If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling In the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead. ---Wynn Bullock To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. ---Arthur Rubinstein The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. ---Anonymous All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. ---William Shakespeare Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. ---Rose Lane In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. ---Unknown Life is like a book, each page, a new adventure. Just when you begin to think you're almost done reading, you realize a new chapter is only beginning. The purpose of life is to matter - to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all. ---Leo Rosten I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you start out on a journey, and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished... and how else could we dicover the stars? ---Unknown He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. ---Friedrich Nietzsche Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ---Helen Keller Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ---C.S. Lewis If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? ---Unknown Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ---Robert Brault The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is at all comprehensible. ---Unknown Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. ---German Proverb To be, or not to be. That is the question. ---William Shakespeare The beauty of life is to give The joy of life is to love. ---William Ward If the essence of my being has cause a smile to appear on your face, or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living...I have made my mark. ---Thomas L. Odem, Jr. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ---Plato And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ---Abraham Lincoln Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ---Soren Kierkegaard It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ---Somerset Maugham Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ---Theodore Roosevelt. The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. ---Barbara De Angelis Life is like a roller coaster. Live for fear, and don't ever fear to live. ---Anonymous Experience is a hard lesson, because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards. ---Unknown In three words I can summarize life. It goes on. ---Unknown Life is not measured by the breath you take, but by what takes your breath away. ---Unknown Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, let's dance. ---Unknown Life breaks us all sometimes, and some people grow stronger from the broken pieces. ---Unknown We do not remember days, we remember moments. ---Unknown >From every negative aspect in your life, there is always a positive lesson to be learned. ---Unknown If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. ---Unknown Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. ---Unknown Until I die, I'm going to do whatever it takes for me to stay who I am not who anyone else wants me to be. ---Unknown There are moments when, no matter the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. --- Les Miserables Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ---Danny Kaye In life there is always a rainy season, this is just your rainy season. But if you wait long enough the sun will shine ---Unknown Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different. ---Calvin and Hobbes When you look back on your life you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did. I am astounded at how long it takes to discover, for the first time, the things I have learned over and over again all my life. Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyhow. Life's journey is the reward. ---Chinese Proverb There are only two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as if everything is. ---Albert Einstein If people were a little bit more like angels, life would be a little bit more like heaven. The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. ---T.H. White Above all be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. ---Hardy D. Jackson Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ---Kathleen Norris You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present ---Jan Glidewell A memory is what is left when something happens, and does not completely unhappen. ---Edward de Bono Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. ---Willa Cather Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. ---Henry David Thoreau Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much [as I did] if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die. ---Thomas Edison (worth more than $2 billion by the end of his life) Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible. ---Dr. Frank Richards Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. Lucille Ball The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Arnold Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Thomas Arnold Bennett Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillip Brooks We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition; learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may. Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle (song) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. Thomas Edison Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Buke Ellington Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief's which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. Thomas Fuller, M.D. We must become the change we want to see. Gandhi Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. Gandhi Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What does not kill me makes me stronger. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. Ellen Hubbard May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Irish Blessing Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? Robert Francis Kennedy He who limps is still walking. Stanislaw J. Lec Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. Andre Norton Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Semisonic, Closing Time It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe Opportunities multiply as they are seized. Sun Tzu

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

---Douglas Everett (LSG)

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking

they can't lose.

---Bill Gates

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

---Robert F. Kennedy

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths

rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

---John D. Rockefeller

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard

himself as greater than he is.

---Goethe

Failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do

under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

---B. F. Skinner

The haves and have nots can often be traced back

to the dids and did nots.

---Unknown

Only those who risk going too far

can possibly find out how far one can go.

---T.S. Eliot

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

---Chinese Proverb (LSG).

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty

to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

---Helen Keller (LSG)

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt

the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

---Tom Clancy

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough,

you will find a way to get it.

--- Jim Rohn

I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can; and I mean to

keep on doing so until the end.

--- Abraham Lincoln (LSG)

You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage

to lose sight of the shore.

---Andre Gide

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence,

even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

---Jim Loehr

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that

ordinary men are forced to meet.

---William F. Halsey

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can

alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

---William James

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in

comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.

---Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want

to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

---Willis Whitney

The moment of victory is much too short

to live for that and nothing else.

---Martina Navratilova

It is not true that nice guys finish last.

Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.

---Addison Walker

Shoot for the moon, but even if you miss,

you will still land among the stars.

---Les Brown

Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after another. --Walter Elliott

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

---Vince Lombardi

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced

enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

---Gene Brown

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do

something. The something I ought to do, I can do.

And by the grace of God, I will.

---Edward Everett Hale

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best

brings out the worst in you.

---Rodney Dangerfield

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall.

---Confucius

Some people succeed because they are destined to.

But most people succeed because they are determined to.

---Anonymous

I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be.

---Lauren Bacall

First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.

---Epictetus

Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star.

---Anonymous

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall,

but by those who fought, fell, and rose again.

---Unknown

Get up one more time than you're knocked down.

---Anonymous

You cannot teach people anything.

You can only help them discover it within themselves.

---Galileo

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit.

---German Proverb

You never really lose until you quit trying.

---Mike Ditka, NFL Football Coach

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

---Albert Einstein

Success is a state of mind.

---Joyce Brothers

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

---Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't know the key to success,

but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

---Bill Cosby

You have brains in your head. Your feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

--- Dr. Seuss

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.

God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of

the impossible to do that very thing.

---John Andrew Holmes

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making

them, changes both the maker and the destination.

---John Schaar

To dream of the person you would like to be,

is to waste the person you are.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:

If you're alive, it isn't.

---Illusions, Richard Bach

I've learned that there is no elevator to success.

You have to take the stairs.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet,

you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

---From "The Alchemist"

We do not know the true value of our moments

until they have undergone the test of memory.

---Georges Duhamel

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

---Wilson Mizner

You're my best friend. Best friend with benefits.

---"Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morisette

"Friendship," said Pooh, "is a very Comforting sort of Thing."

--- A Very Wise Bear

I no doubt deserved my enemies,

but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

---Walt Whitman

There are good ships, and there are bad ships,

but the best ships are friendships.

---Unknown

Life is nothing without friendship.

---Unknown

The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can

grow separately without growing apart.

In the end you won't remember the words of your enemies,

but the silence of your friends. ---Martin Luther King Jr.

A friend is someone who believes in you even when you've ceased to

believe in yourself.

To dislike yourself is to insult your friends.

Friends bring sunshine when everyone else is raining on your parade.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to

understand and to be understood.

---Seneca

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

---Unknown

Friendship is not a two way road... it is a one way road traveled be

two people together-hand in hand.

True friends are like diamonds, the more rare they are,

the more they are valued

There are no rules in friendship. It must be left to itself. We

cannot force it any more than love.

---William Hazlitt

Friends are like a puzzle, if one goes away, that special piece can

never be replaced, and the puzzle will never be whole again.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard,

in which to bury the faults of your friends.

---Henry Ward Beecher

What's in a name?

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

---Shakespeare

He who does not know his opponent's viewpoint

does not completely understand his own.

---Anonomous

Sir, I have given you an argument.

I am not obliged to give you an understanding.

---Samuel Johnson

I may disagree with what you have to say,

but I shall defend to the death you're right to say it.

---Voltaire

Speak only well of people and you need never whisper.

---Fortune Cookie

Write down the advice of him who loves you,

though you like it not at the present.

---English Proverb

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

---Swedish proverb

May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day;

that I might never know the world without you.

---Hungarian Traditional

If we are facing in the right direction,

all we have to do is keep on walking.

---Ancient Buddhist Proverb

There are no formalities between the closest of friends.

---Japanese Proverb

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

---German Proverb

Life's journey is the reward.

---Chinese Proverb

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit.

---German Proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

---African Proverb

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

---Dutch Proverb

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

----French Proverb

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

---French Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

---French Proverb

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

---German Proverb

No answer is also an answer.

----German Proverb

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

---German Proverb

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

---Italian Proverb

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.

---Italian Proverb

The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.

---Norwegian Proverb

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't

believe, no proof is possible.

---Traditional Saying

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

---Chinese Proverb

When you talk, you can only say something that you already know.

When you listen, you learn what someone else knows.

---Unknown

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and

lifting people up

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a

few will catch your heart -- pursue those

Where we love is home.

Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

---Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways.

Where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.

---Arlen Price

All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart,

not the head.

---Suzanne Chazin

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart

don't know how to laugh either.

---Golda Meir

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind!

The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

---Charles Shulz

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions,

then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

---Source Unknown

If every time I thought of him I put a rock in my pocket,

I'd have him in my heart, and the world in my pocket.

---Unknown

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

---Blaise Pascal

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen,

nor touched... but are felt in the heart.

---Helen Keller

A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be,

never apart, maybe in distance but not in heart.

---Unknown

The human heart feels thing the eyes cannot see,

and knows what the mind cannot understand.

---Unknown

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

---Unknown

There's only so much heart in a girl to be broken.

---Unknown

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

---Wizard of Oz

Sometimes I wish I was little again,

skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

---Unknown

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be

honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that

you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one

story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares

the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

---James Barrie

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are

much easier to give up than the bad ones.

---W. Somerset Maugham

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty

minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

---C.S. Lewis

Don't smoke too much, drink too much,

eat too much or work too much.

We're all on the road to the grave --

but there's no reason to be in the passing lane.

---Robert Orben

Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking when we ought to

feel and feeling when we ought to think.

---Unknown

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

---Anne Dillard

Our life is frittered away by detail; Simplify, simplify.

---Henry David Thoreau

To fear love is to fear life.

---Unknown

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going

too fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

---Eddie Cantor

The real meaning of life is not to fret and bug yourself

about what the real meaning of life is.

---WSJ Cartoon

Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu

instead of enjoying the banquet.

---Unknown

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Hugh Prather

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.

---Joe E. Lewis

Worry affects the circulation... the heart... the glands...

the whole nervous system and profoundly affects the health.

I have never known a man who died from overwork

but many who have died from doubt.

---Charles W. Mayo

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is

fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen

and deeply felt good.

---Ruth Benedict

If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling

In the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future,

you might as well be dead.

---Wynn Bullock

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle.

I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

---Arthur Rubinstein

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift,

not a right.

---Anonymous

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances,

and one man in his time plays many parts.

---William Shakespeare

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we

don't even remember leaving open.

---Rose Lane

In times like these, it helps to recall that

there have always been times like these.

---Unknown

Life is like a book, each page, a new adventure. Just when you begin

to think you're almost done reading, you realize a new chapter

is only beginning.

The purpose of life is to matter - to count, to stand for something,

to have it make some difference that we lived at all.

---Leo Rosten

I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right.

When you start out on a journey, and night covers the road, you don't

conclude that the road has vanished...

and how else could we dicover the stars?

---Unknown

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

---Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the world is full of suffering,

it is also full of the overcoming of it.

---Helen Keller

Experience: the most brutal of teachers.

But you learn, my God do you learn.

---C.S. Lewis

If you fear nothing, you love nothing.

If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

---Unknown

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize

they were the big things.

---Robert Brault

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe

is that it is at all comprehensible.

---Unknown

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

---German Proverb

To be, or not to be. That is the question.

---William Shakespeare

The beauty of life is to give

The joy of life is to love.

---William Ward

If the essence of my being has cause a smile to appear on your face,

or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living...I have made my mark.

---Thomas L. Odem, Jr.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

---Plato

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.

It's the life in your years.

---Abraham Lincoln

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

---Soren Kierkegaard

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything

but the best, you very often get it.

---Somerset Maugham

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

---Theodore Roosevelt.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming

is where the dance of life really takes place.

---Barbara De Angelis

Life is like a roller coaster. Live for fear,

and don't ever fear to live.

---Anonymous

Experience is a hard lesson, because she gives the test first,

the lessons afterwards.

---Unknown

In three words I can summarize life. It goes on.

---Unknown

Life is not measured by the breath you take,

but by what takes your breath away.

---Unknown

Life may not be the party we hoped for,

but while we're here, let's dance.

---Unknown

Life breaks us all sometimes, and some people grow stronger

from the broken pieces.

---Unknown

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

---Unknown

>From every negative aspect in your life,

there is always a positive lesson to be learned.

---Unknown

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have

that money can't buy.

---Unknown

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

---Unknown

Until I die, I'm going to do whatever it takes for me to stay who I am

not who anyone else wants me to be.

---Unknown

There are moments when, no matter the posture of the body,

the soul is on its knees.

--- Les Miserables

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw

all the paint on it you can.

---Danny Kaye

In life there is always a rainy season, this is just your rainy season.

But if you wait long enough the sun will shine

---Unknown

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change.

But pretty soon, everything's different.

---Calvin and Hobbes

When you look back on your life you'll regret the things you didn't do

more than the ones you did.

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover, for the first time,

the things I have learned over and over again all my life.

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyhow.

Life's journey is the reward.

---Chinese Proverb

There are only two ways to live your life:

one as though nothing is a miracle;

the other is as if everything is.

---Albert Einstein

If people were a little bit more like angels,

life would be a little bit more like heaven.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing

and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

---T.H. White

Above all be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it,

take yourself out of it.

---Hardy D. Jackson

Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to

accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the

intolerable.

---Kathleen Norris

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest,

that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present

---Jan Glidewell

A memory is what is left when something happens,

and does not completely unhappen.

---Edward de Bono

Some memories are realities, and are better

than anything that can ever happen to one again.

---Willa Cather

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular

poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible

impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

---Henry David Thoreau

Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can

accomplish just as much [as I did] if he will stick like hell and

remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the

damn thing work. I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck

before I die.

---Thomas Edison (worth more than $2 billion by the end of his life)

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting

one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the

measures of success that endure when material things have passed

away

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and

have an idea that is obviously impossible.

---Dr. Frank Richards

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it

doesn't get you anywhere.

Anonymous

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed

until it is faced.

-- James Baldwin

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid

of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing

what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one

knows exactly where one is.

Arnold Bennett

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of

tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a

tiresome labor is immense.

Thomas Arnold Bennett

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the

small ones.

Phillip Brooks

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of

whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition; learn to trust your

intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may.

Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle (song)

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who

is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Thomas Edison

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual

who can labour in freedom.

Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Buke Ellington

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and

leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start

over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even

though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop

character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief's which we endure

help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off

your goal.

Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises,

is to

find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Thomas Fuller, M.D.

We must become the change we want to see.

Gandhi

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you

do it.

Gandhi

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to

become what they are capable of being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,

power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat

him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what

he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing

that you will make one.

Ellen Hubbard

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May

the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields

and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Irish Blessing

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in

our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I

dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Francis Kennedy

He who limps is still walking.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them,

we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already

have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Abraham Maslow

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within

us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials

which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool

where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be

thought.

Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten

your aim.

George Santayana

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Semisonic, Closing Time

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because

we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will

turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

Encouragement isa a necessary part of supervision.

Thomas J. Watson

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

François Marie Arouet Voltaire

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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

A. Lou Vickery

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Excellence and size are fundamentally incompatible.

Robert Townsend

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Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Theognis

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

You must motivate yourself EVERYDAY!

Matthew Stasior

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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

Socrates

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It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

SIMONIDES of Ceos

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Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.

Sir Philip Sidney

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But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Price Pritchett, Ph.D.

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We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards . . . the ethics of excellence.

Price Pritchett, Ph.D.

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Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

Price Pritchett, Ph.D.

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Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Price Pritchett, Ph.D.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Keywords: self-esteem achievement action success self-doubt

Quote: Whether or not we realize it each of us has a special gift inside us just waiting to surface!...We owe developing these gifts not only to ourselves, but those around us as well... The important thing here is not what your gift is as much as that you develop it so that you can share it with those around you and in the process further your own personal life!... Once we have identified our special talents it doesn't matter whether or not we find immediate success in them, what does matter is that we take a step each day towards our intended goal!

Author: Josh Hinds

Source: Inspiration a Day! mailing list

Keywords: talents goals encourage gifts growth sharing success

Quote: Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.

Author: Stephen Covey

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Keywords: success balance effectiveness business compartmentalization

Quote: ...even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding...

Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Keywords: meaning purpose fulfillment learning education growth self-improvement creativity creative expression joy work recognition

Quote: Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.

Author: Barbara Sher

Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

Keywords: enthusiasm self-confidence success

Quote: If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.

Author: Barbara Sher

Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

Keywords: failure success fear

Quote: Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Author: Fran Tarkenton

Source: Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon by Joe Klock

Keywords: perfectionism success willingness action obstacles fear failure

Quote: The measure of our future success and happiness will not be the quality of the cards we are dealt by unseen hands, but the poise and wisdom with which we play them.``

Choose to play each hand to the best of your ability without wasting the time or energy it takes to complain about either the cards or the dealer or the often unfair rules of the game.``

Play both the winning and the losing hands as best you can, then fold the cards and ante up for the next deal!

Author: Joe Klock

Source: Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon by Joe Klock

Keywords: success future happiness life poise wisdom complaints time energy rules attitude perseverance

Quote: Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Keywords: speech talk words peace attitude mood contented happy success

Quote: Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment--the most priceless of human treasures--are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen--who make *good* things happen--in the world around them.

Author: Joe Klock

Source: Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon by Joe Klock

Keywords: success happiness peace fulfillment treasure action giving doing

Quote: All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Author: Aristotle

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life

Keywords: goals objectives success happiness action planning priorities

Quote: ...gradual change is usually more fruitful in the long run than is forced, ultra-aggressive upheaval. Undertaken wisely, steady transitions cultivate authenticity, groundedness, and virtues--like patience, compassion (for self and others), and perseverance. All these qualities improve your probability of success when, ultimately, you do figure out how to actualize your personal vision.

Author: Marsha Sinetar

Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring

Keywords: change progress future vision authenticity virtues patience compassion perseverance success actualization

Quote: Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Author: Marsha Sinetar

Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring

Keywords: change challenge growth success beliefs self-esteem confidence

Quote: The process of succeeding can be seen as a series of trials in which your vision constantly guides you toward your target while in your actual performance you are regularly slightly off target. Success in any area requires constantly readjusting your behavior as the result of feedback from your experience.

Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: success vision progress performance feedback change growth

Quote: Many of us grow up with the idea that mistakes are bad, linking our self-esteem with continued success. We become afraid of making mistakes. So in order to achieve success, we tend to steer clear of areas that may lie outside the apparent realm of our natural talent. In this perverse equation, the secret of success becomes avoiding failure, leaving much of our potential untapped.

In order to reach our full potential to learn, we must accept and then transform anxiety and fear, relentlessly seeking accurate information on our performance. What used to be perceived as criticism now becomes a gift for constructive growth.

Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: mistakes self-esteem success confidence talent resistance failure potential learning performance criticism growth

Quote: Most of us visualize on a daily basis, but we often do it unconsciously and in a negative fashion. It is called worrying. What happens to our bodies when we worry? We tense up, disrupt our normal breathing, and psycho-physically prepare ourselves for failure. Instead, learn to use positive visualization to prepare yourself for success. As you do you will transform the energy that supports your worrying into fuel for making your dreams come true.

Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: visualization success failure worry stress wellness breathing energy dreams vision

Quote: ...the best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be...the key to faster learning--is to use appropriate effort...

Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: results success effort learning success habits growth unlearning

Quote: The path to accelerating and enjoying the learning process requires us to see success and failure as equally instructive and valuable.

Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: learning life growth failure success mistakes

Quote: ...success and failure are like the two sides of the Mobius strip. They appear different, yet are fundamentally the same.

Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: success failure growth learning

Quote: Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Author: Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors

Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Keywords: success vision failure introspection self-knowledge awareness

Quote: Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Keywords: genius effort action failure success patience achievement perseverance defeat purpose

Quote: Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: success responsibility wisdom

Quote: Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Author: Grenville Kleiser

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: achievement success work focus persevere self-denial vision mission luck purpose

Quote: People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Author: Harvey Mackay

Source: Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column

Keywords: success attitude decision vision mission goals

Quote: Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Author: Harvey Mackay

Source: Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column

Keywords: work effort determination success failure vision action

Quote: Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: self-confidence self-esteem success trust character

Quote: Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: ambition work dream vision goal principles methods work effort action planning

Quote: Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

Author: Jennifer James

Source: Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh

Keywords: success growth change life balance joy happiness

Quote: If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Author: Thomas Watson, Sr., founder of IBM

Source: Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh

Keywords: failure success mistakes creativity challenges growth learning education

Quote: When you do a thing, know that success is within your grasp! All too often we are our own worst enemies. The bottom line is you were made for success!

Author: Josh Hinds

Source: Inspiration a Day! mailing list

Keywords: success self-confidence faith vision mission

Quote: Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy...

``To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Keywords: life joy achievement success difficulties challenges problems obstacles dreams vision work energy fatigue hope courage persevere persistance

Quote: Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: moderation success virtue habit

Quote: I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Keywords: dreams vision goal values character success achievement

Quote: ...it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually...It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

Author: M. Scott Peck

Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck

Keywords: problems obstacles challenges difficulties pain meaning life wisdom success failure courage growth spirituality

Quote: ...true happiness stems from a quality within ourselves, from a way of thinking of life. Of all the millions of words written on happiness, this is the oldest and most enduring truth. If the principles of contentment are not within us, no material success, no pleasures or possessions, can make us happy.

Author: Lillian Eichler Watson

Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Keywords: happiness attitude depression contentment materialism sadness success joy happy focus money possessions indulgence balance character

Quote: Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: success prosperity work effort

Quote: Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: success business work fulfillment vocation

Quote: The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: success praise values priorities failure

Quote: It is foolish to postpone enjoyment of your ordinary life until you are more successful, more secure, or more loved than you are today.

Author: Timothy Ray Miller

Source: How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existence by Timothy Ray Miller

Keywords: joy happiness perfectionism routine present life success security love foolishness wisdom

Quote: The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Author: Robert Half

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: blame mistakes excuses

Quote: Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Author: Robert Half

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: happy happiness joy gladness balance planning

Quote: Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Author: Colin Powell

Source: You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success by Stedman Graham

Keywords: success work effort learning education wisdom failure mistakes loyalty persistence persevere excellence leadership relationships persist persevere determination

Quote: Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Author: Helen Keller

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Keywords: attitude failure success vision persevere determination obstacles problems difficulties challenges overcoming effort beauty

Quote: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Author: Helen Keller

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Keywords: character trials problems challenges difficulties suffering strength bravery vision ambition inspiration success achievement

Quote: We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! Every great achievement was first carefully thought out...Think--but to a purpose. Think constructively. Think as you read. Think as you listen. Think as you travel and your eyes reveal new situations. Think as you work daily at your desk, or in the field, or while strolling. Think to rise and improve your place in life. There can be no advancement or success without serious thought.

Author: George Matthew Adams

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: success accomplishment achievement thought planning vision mission goal thinking reading listening work effort exercise self-improvement growth

Quote: Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Author: Winston Churchill

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: success failure attitude mistakes victory defeat enthusiasm

Quote: Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Author: Winston Churchill

Source: The Book of Positive Quotations

Keywords: sucess victory failure defeat courage bravery

Quote: Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Author: Winston Churchill

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: no failure refusal defeat success mistakes character honesty sincerity virtue courage bravery

Quote: Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Keywords: success talent ability work effort goal vision mission

Quote: It is a favorite belief of mine that no student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Author: Charles Kendall Adams

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: work effort success achievement vision goal self-determination

Quote: Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so that the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way, though we dislike enduring them. A blustery period in our fortunes is often the prelude to a new spring of life and health, success and happiness, when we keep steadfast in faith and look to the good in spite of appearances.

Author: Jane Truax

Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Keywords: storms difficulties challenges obstacles opportunities problems growth maturity faith success happiness attitude optimism optimistic

Quote: Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: success vision mission achievement goals meditation visualization goals

Quote: What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love...Give it the best there is in you... Seize your opportunities...And be a member of the team.

Author: Benjamin F. Fairless

Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Keywords: success achievement goals vocation joy work effort opportunity team cooperation

Quote: Success is 99 percent failure.

Author: Soichiro Honda

Source: Bits & Pieces magazine

Keywords: success achievement vision goal planning mistakes failures learning growth progress change self-improvement

Quote: A bold attempt is half success.

Author: Danish proverb

Source: The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Keywords: courage bravery effort success achievement trying action

Quote: It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.

Author: William James

Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Keywords: attitude success determination self-esteem self-confidence optimism

Quote: Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations

Keywords: determination perseverance work effort action desire success goal planning support vision mission

Quote: The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

Author: Andre Maurois

Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Keywords: success materialism focus possessions goals unhappiness depression

Quote: All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Author: Walter Anderson

Source: The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson

Keywords: leadership excellence focus priorities balance peace purpose mission vision goal character meaning fulfillment service

Quote: I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do..[But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems...but the essential thing is liking what you're doing.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring by Marsha Sinetar

Keywords: work job career joy happiness challenge problem-solving entrepreneurship

Quote: Only the strongest egos escape the trap of perfectionism. To solve problems successfully, you must believe you can, must feel capable enough to improvise. Yet too many adults have been schooled away from their ability to experiment freely.

Author: Marsha Sinetar

Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring by Marsha Sinetar

Keywords: ego perfectionism acceptance self-confidence self-esteem abilities talents skills trust yourself growth learning by doing education

Quote: Success breeds success. Attend to your mind's most joyful, effective discovery process. Bolster the self-beliefs that add confidence, lucidity, and tenacity to your efforts. You'll get more out of what you notice, so heed whatever gives you wisdom.

Author: Marsha Sinetar

Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring by Marsha Sinetar

Keywords: self-confidence self-esteem optimism positive thinking success achievement joy happiness work effort learning knowledge wisdom growth self-improvement

Quote: We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them ultimately determines how successful you are.

Author: Craig McFarlane (blind motivational speaker)

Source: "Motivation overcomes 'minor inconvenience'" by Robbie Sherwood, 11/13/98 Arizona Republic

Keywords: attitude positive thinking determination persevere handicaps disability adversity challenges difficulties problems coping cope overcoming overcome bad luck success

Quote: We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Author: Leo Buscaglia

Source: Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Keywords: failure success mistakes learning determination persevere growth on the job training

Quote: I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Author: Jonathan Winters

Source: Dale Dauten's column, "Puncturing questionable advice, logic," printed in the December 24, 1998 Arizona Republic

Keywords: success achievement goals self-starter mission procrastination

Quote: The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny--that which we call character--but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible...Through training, instruction, contemplation, success, failure, advancement, hindrance, and ever more contemplation, the organs of man, in their instinctive, free activity, unite the acquired with the innate to produce a harmonious unity that astonished the world.

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source: The Permanent Goethe Edited, Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Mann

Keywords: change introspection learning meditation personal growth failure mistakes success meditation achievement genius brilliance creativity

Quote: Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Author: Sidney Jourard

Source: Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations compiled by William D. Hitt

Keywords: personal growth conflicts relationships marriage change self-improvement

Quote: A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Author: Bertrand Russell

Source: Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations compiled by William D. Hitt

Keywords: passion vision mission dedication success achievement

Quote: Whether you are concerned about managing your work or your personal life or your leisure, success and satisfaction will depend on your inner thoughts. Your inner thoughts will help to determine your outer life... and your inner life will affect how you react to your experiences...

Author: Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD

Source: Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide by Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD

Keywords: success relaxation balance thoughts self-control

Quote: The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Author: May V. Smith

Source: Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40

Keywords: success work effort action achievement

Quote: Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Author: Dale Dauten

Source: 'Hope is secret to thriving in corporate life' by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, March 4, 1999

Keywords: hope potential possibility growth change

Quote: I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Author: Bill Cosby

Source: The 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said by Robert Byrne

Keywords: truth success failure principles character

Quote: Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Author: Stephen Covey

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey

Keywords: independence interdependence teamwork success achievement cooperation

Quote: How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless -- but they can be stolen.

Author: Charles Swindoll

Source: The Quest for Character : Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ by Charles R. Swindoll

Keywords: character caution treasure

Quote: Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as to by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run--in the long run, I say!--success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Author: Viktor E. Frankl

Source: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Keywords: success goal happiness action purpose meaning

Quote: Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Author: Mike Ditka

Source: The 13 Secrets of Power Performance by Roger Dawson

Keywords: success failure mistakes

Quote: ...you must take responsibility for yourself if you are going to pursue success and a better life in this world.

Author: Stedman Graham

Source: You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success by Stedman Graham

Keywords: personal responsibility choices decisions accountability success self-improvement

Quote: To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy.

Author: Stedman Graham

Source: You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success by Stedman Graham

Keywords: success character integrity trust relationships networking mentoring

Quote: I pride myself on my success in doing not the things I like to do, but the things I don't like to do.

Author: William M. Evarts

Source: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Keywords: duty procrastination success details

Quote: Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves.

Author: Tom Morris

Source: The philosopher Tom Morris by Anna Muoio, Fast Company, July/August 1999.

Keywords: success character talent skills work effort giving sharing teamwork

Quote: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Author: Albert Einstein

Source: The Quotable Einstein compiled and edited by Alice Calaprice

Keywords: success purpose motive value meaning character

Quote: What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Author: Gene Fowler

Source: "'Pushing Envelope' takes more than luck" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, Feb. 18 1999

Keywords: success achievement naysayers turkeys critics criticism

Quote: There are high spots in all of our lives, and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous, or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Author: George Matthew Adams

Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Keywords: encouragement mentoring friendship relationships

Quote: ... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Author: Julie Cameron

Source: by Julia Cameron

Keywords: delight joy happiness focus gratitude appreciation awareness

Quote: There's no real joy in emptiness, in doing nothing, in risk-free living: True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

Author: Walter Anderson

Source: The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson

Keywords: success failure mistakes risk courage

Quote: In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Author: John Ruskin

Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Keywords: work balance happiness

Quote: We need to recognize that our individual abilities are only one small factor in our personal success. Instead of thinking of ourselves as successful individuals, we should think, "I work hard, and I'm lucky." Some of us are privileged -- largely thanks to God's grace.

Author: Chuck Collins, co-founder and director of United for a Fair Economy

Source: "Unit of One", Fast Company, December 1999

Keywords: success justice privilege humility

Quote: I believe that passion is central to success.

Author: Chuck Williams

Source: "Unit of One," Fast Company, November 1999

Keywords: passion fulfillment success joy

Quote: You have to look at success incrementally. It takes too long to get to any major success... If one can look at life as being successful on a moment-by-moment basis, one might find that most of it is successful. And take the bow inside for it. When we wait for the big bow, it's a lousy bargain. They don't come but once in too long a time.

Author: Norman Lear

Source: On Becoming a Leader by Warren G. Bennis

Keywords: success

Quote: Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Author: Josh Billings

Source: The 13 Secrets of Power Performance by Roger Dawson

Keywords: success focus vision plan goal persistance determination

Quote: Conflict occurs when the emphasis in a relationship is on the differences between people... You get along better with people when the emphasis is on similarities between you. The difference between a conflict with a friend and conflict with a difficult person is that with a friend the conflict is tempered by the common ground you share. Success in communication depends on finding common ground before attempting to redirect the interaction toward a new outcome.

Author: Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner

Source: Dealing With People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst by Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner

Keywords: communication cooperation team work

Quote: A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Author: Robert Browning

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations edited by Angela Partington

Keywords: success goals vision mistakes failure determination perseverance

Quote: The worst bankrupt is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

Author: H. W. Arnold

Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Keywords: enthusiasm success failure difficulties problems challenges adversity

Quote: An entrepreneur can become moderately successful doing the same thing that everyone else does. But if you want to be wildly successful, you have to do what no one else has done.

Author: Tim Gill

Source: "Unit of 1," Fast Company, December 1999

Keywords: success excellence creativity

Quote: True success comes when you hit a crisis or rough spot, and people don't revert to their old behaviors.

Author: Lynn Mercer

Source: "Want to lead better? It's simple," Fast Company, March 2000

Keywords: success growth self-improvement reaction difficulties problems

Quote: That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations

Keywords: success meaning fulfillment life service giving

Quote: A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Author: Robert Browning

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations edited by Angela Partington

Keywords: success goals vision mistakes failure determination perseverance

Quote: The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Source: Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Keywords: perseverance determination goals vision achievement

Quote: Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Author: Henry Kissinger

Source: Power Quotes compiled by by Daniel B. Baker

Keywords: success achievement growth self-improvement

Quote: Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.

Author: George Matthew Adams

Source: Soar...If You Dare by James R. Ball

Keywords: attitude optimism goals past regrets fresh start

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