...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.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: results success effort learning success habits growth unlearning

From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: love laughter friendship relationship balance success happiness joy achievement success priorities

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: striving excellence high standards success achievement success try

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer Words for All Occasions
Categories: success joy happiness challenge growth success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Categories: success

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein
Categories: success

Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht
Categories: success

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

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Categories: success

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille
Categories: success

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics
Categories: success

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
Categories: success

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
Categories: success

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Categories: success

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
Categories: success

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Categories: success

If A is 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 Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Categories: success

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
Categories: success

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

Nothing fails like success.
Gerald Nachman
Categories: success

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.
Norman Lear On Becoming a Leader
Categories: success

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Categories: success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Gerry Spence How to Argue and Win Every Time
Categories: success

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
Helen Hayes
Categories: success

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Categories: success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
Categories: success

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
Categories: success

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Categories: success

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower speech, April 2, 1957
Categories: success

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
Categories: success

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller
Categories: success

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius The Confucian Analects
Categories: success

A man's years should not be counted until he has something else to count.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: age success life

Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear -- possible.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: attitude success

Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau Light from Many Lamps
Categories: success failure

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success happiness

No profit grows where no pleasure is ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: joy fulfillment success

No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson Power Quotes
Categories: success authenticity

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
King Solomon Proverbs 13:19 (The Holy Bible)
Categories: success accomplishment goals

Walk in balance with one foot in your spiritual understanding and one foot in your physical world of accomplishment.
Lynn V. Andrews Walk in Balance
Categories: balance spirituality success

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: success perfectionism self-esteem

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: achievement success goals

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: vision success goals

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: enthusiasm self-confidence success

Do not wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.
Janet Erskine Stuart Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
Categories: action leadership success

...character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion...
Aristotle Rhetoric and Poetics
Categories: character leadership success

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success failure character

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.
Tim Gill "Unit of 1," Fast Company, December 1999
Categories: success excellence creativity

...happiness is a way of traveling rather than a destination.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: happiness joy life success

You don't have to be the one who works the most hours, just the one who is most there during the hours you work. Come to work and put your heart on the table.
James Evans, CEO of Best Western "What have you done worthwhile today?" By Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic 10/30/2000.
Categories: excellence success achievement

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillip Brooks Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
Categories: wisdom success power

People waste a lot of time by not letting themselves fail. It's hard to let yourself fail -- to cut your losses and move on. But sometimes, that's the most expedient thing to do.
Timothy C. Draper "Unit of One" edited by Jill Rosenfeld, Fast Company, November 1999
Categories: failure mistakes success

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: risk courage success

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: failure success fear

Everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: work effort success

I believe that passion is central to success.
Chuck Williams "Unit of One," Fast Company, November 1999
Categories: passion fulfillment success joy

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.``

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: action safety success

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success responsibility wisdom

The wish for instant gratification undermines the strengths of both individual and collective enterprise.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: patience success vocation

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists of doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all, one must be great here, now...
Russell H. Conwell Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: success fulfillment meaning

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success failure action

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus success vision

'Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
Robert Browning The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: focus success achievement

There only one proof of ability: action.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: ability effort potential success

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Words for All Occasions
Categories: action effort success achievement

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: effort success work achievement

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Nancy Banks-Smith The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: success achievement determination expectations

A half-hearted goal may get you halfway to where you want to go... but I doubt it. It's more likely to get you just as far as the first detour, and off you go in another direction.
Alec Mackenzie The Time Trap
Categories: goal purpose direction success

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action responsility self-esteem success

It's not boasting when you deliver.
Richard Saunders (aka Doug Hall) Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: success capability talk action

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.
Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD Managing Your Mind
Categories: self-esteem success positive self-image

Setting goals for significant accomplishments you want to achieve in your life, both personal and professional accomplishments, costs you nothing. Failure to set them can cost you plenty. You are smack in the middle of the only life your going to have. You can choose to succeed, or choose to drift; having goals makes the difference.
Alec Mackenzie The Time Trap
Categories: goals success preparation planning

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life
Categories: work effort success laziness

How hard you try is rooted to how often you try.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: work effort success action

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work talent life success

Do not delay;

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Quotations
Categories: time balance priorities success

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt American Quotations
Categories: action effort work success

Every step you take should increase, not decrease, the breadth of your opportunities.
Andy Tuck Re-invent Yourself by Ron Lieber, Fast Company, November 1999
Categories: progress choices success opportunity

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler "'Pushing Envelope' takes more than luck"
Categories: success achievement naysayers turkeys

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: success purpose motive value meaning

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action thought goals success

The human race is divided into two classes--those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. Words for All Occasions
Categories: action success criticism critics

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success friendship failure priorities

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you can't.
Mary Kay Ash Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: attitude success failure determination

We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!
John Eliot The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort success

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: moderation success virtue habit

I am asking people to go from Why me? to Try me!
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
Categories: attitude optimism enthusiasm success try

Act as though everything you do, rightly or wrongly, accurately or carelessly, may tip the scale of the bigger things of tomorrow for all of us, as indeed every act, potentially, can.
L.G. Eliot The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: actions work effort success

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Leonard Berry 'Being extraordinary the way to succeed' by Dale Dauten. Published in the April 15, 1999 Arizona Republic
Categories: excellence success achievement leadership

To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: success character integrity trust

I pride myself on my success in doing not the things I
William M. Evarts The Education of Henry Adams
Categories: duty procrastination success details

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
Charles L. Allen Soar... If You Dare
Categories: dreams goals success courage

The great pursuit of happiness..is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness meaning life success

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
Samuel Rogers The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action effort work success

Character is the foundation to accomplishment--if you have diligence and determination, you'll succeed.
Beverly Chiodo "Character communication boosts success" by Dale Dauten
Categories: character success achievement excellence

Abundance is from activity.
Turkish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: success work effort action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt American Quotations
Categories: action effort success work

You don't have to get it right the first time.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: failure mistakes action success

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard Power Quotes
Categories: success integrity knowledge action

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: preparation life living success

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude positive success life

I firmly believe in chutzpah - that terrific Yiddish word for gall, guts, the drive to put yourself ahead. Part of success comes from knowing when to push and how hard.
Helen Gurley Brown Lessons in Life from Helen Gurley Brown, Bottom Line Secrets
Categories: courage risk daring success

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Joe Klock "Imemyosis," by Joe Klock from Like Klockwork by Joe Klock
Categories: leadership teamwork success achievement

Get up the courage to play on a much larger field and to pursue your inspiration where ever it may lie.
Jordan Ayan Aha! Ten ways to free your creative spirit and find your great ideas
Categories: vision courage dreams success

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: perseverance determination responsibility success

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger Power Quotes
Categories: success achievement growth self-improvement

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: mistakes failure success perseverance

You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed.
Russell H. Conwell Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: vision service success excellence

There's no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.
Sarah J. Hale Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: courage determination success achievement

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: obstacles success failure action

...success and failure are like the two sides of the Mobius strip. They appear different, yet are fundamentally the same.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: success failure growth learning

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker "Early Light", InTouch, May 2001.
Categories: commitment goals success achievement

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude challenges achievement success

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: work effort achievement success

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus--the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: optimism failure success attitude

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude belief success failure

Strategy is all about commitment. If what you're doing isn't irrevocable, then you don't have a strategy -- because anyone can do it... I've always wanted to treat life like I was an invading army and there was no turning back.
Troy Tyler "Soul Proprietor" by Keith H. Hammonds,Fast Company, August 2000
Categories: commitment success achievement determination

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: success action determination work

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
Categories: excuses success work effort

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: focus priorities balance success

Self-awareness is a key to self-acceptance, which drives self-motivation and self-fulfillment.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: attitude self-awareness success achievement

We are very near to greatness; one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success courage faith action

You have only one source of creativity -- your own unique talents, skills, perspectives, and experiences. You can't be creative with someone else's stuff, because creativity, by definition, is the process of translating who you are into some outward manifestation. It doesn't matter whether that is a painting, an ad campaign, a holiday dinner, a business report, or the raising of a healthy child. The creative process can be applied to all of our activities, eventually yielding a truly creative life.
G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff To Do Doing Done!
Categories: creativity living success fulfillment

You have to assume that you're in business for the long haul. That belief will drive you to build value.
Regis McKenna "Unit of One," Fast Company, January/February 2000.
Categories: excellence success service business

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: action reputation failure success

Men are born to succeed--not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success failure destiny meaning

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better.
Alberta Lee Cox The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: success self-improvement growth change

Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: excellence success achievement details

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: commitment challenge success achievement

If you want to catch beasts you don't see everyday,

Dr. Seuss If I Ran the Zoo
Categories: excellence success work effort

When fortune comes, seize her firmly by the forelock, for, I tell you, she is bald at the back.
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography
Categories: vision foresight preparation success

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon Power Quotes
Categories: excellence success attitude hate

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life action success work

Progress comes from people who think against the grain. Without nonconformists, you don't advance.
Saw Ken Wye Fast Company, September 1999
Categories: change innovation excellence success

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur Power Quotes
Categories: opportunity possibility vision success

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
SueEllen Fried Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: success failure sin mistake action effort

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus H. Curtis Franklin Dayplanner, November 21, 1993
Categories: creativity initiative success achievement action

...the perfect is the enemy of the good. If we fall short, there is no reason to despair, only more reason to try harder.
William Bennett Our Sacred Honor
Categories: perfectionism perfectionistic try work effort success

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: want desire success work effort self-determination

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Joseph P. Thompson Franklin Day Planner, July 9, 1993
Categories: self-control will habit success achievement attainment

Discontent and disorder [are] signs of energy and hope, not despair.
Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgewood Simple Abundance
Categories: progress goal success achievement unhappiness

You are the greatest miracle in your life, and you were born for greatness.
James R. Ball Soar... If You Dare
Categories: potential capability ability success affirmation

Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.
Walter J. Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement focus goal mission

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.
Mary Baker Eddy The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement visualization meditation planning

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfaction.
Kathe Kollwitz Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: work meaning fulfillment purpose success

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude self-confidence success achievement attainment

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George Words for All Occasions
Categories: courage bravery daring risk success

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osler Words for All Occasions
Categories: knowledge action work effort success

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey Mackay The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meaning life success love dreams

There is no Fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
Herbert N. Casson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort success failure

Practice not your art, and it will soon depart.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: practice perfect repetition success performance

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas H. Huxley The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort success determination persevere

In every triumph there's a lot of try.
Frank Tyger The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: try work effort achievement success goal

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement self-control self-determination will habits

It's not an idea unless you're willing to take action on it.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: idea work effort action success

Attitudes are more important than facts.
Dr. Karl Menninger Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimism optimistic self-confidence success

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action knowledge work effort success

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no mans doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: choice self-determination effort success achievement

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success adversity challenges problems difficulties

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Quotes
Categories: vision courage faith hope success

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Harvey Mackay "Confusion inevitable with any change" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, 8/30/2000
Categories: change growth self-improvement success fulfillment

Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Frances E. Willard The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions habits character success excellence

The path to glory is rough and many gloomy hours obscure it.
Black Hawk A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: success sacrifice vision persevere determination

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: effort excellence success integrity priorities

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: success goals vision mistakes failure

Word by word the big books are made.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: perseverance determination little by little success achievement goals

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: action success achievement determination perseverance

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
Maxwell Maltz The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action courage success achievement failure

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: goals planning action success achievement

Talk doesn't cook rice.
Chinese proverb The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action effort work success achievement

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones Words for All Occasions
Categories: failure success courage risk daring

I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.
Thomas Edison "Trying Times Help to Build Real Character" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, October 31, 2001.
Categories: failure mistakes education success achievement

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi Lessons from the Art of Juggling
Categories: excellence success commitment life joy happiness

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.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: success failure mistakes risk courage

Let deeds match words.
Plautus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: actions talk follow-through success achievement

Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
James A. Worsham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: activity effort success work achievement

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: work effort action success achievement

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...
Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD Managing Your Mind
Categories: success relaxation balance thoughts self-control

He who is well prepared has half won the battle.
Portuguese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: preparation planning success achievement goals

The significance of man is not what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: achievement success goals dreams vision

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
May V. Smith Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: success work effort action achievement

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
Bill Cosby The 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: truth success failure principles character

Aim at heaven and you will get earth
C.S. Lewis Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: goal success achievement courage vision

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Italian proverb The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: goals mission statement vision success

If there is no wind, row.
Latin proverb The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action effort success achievement work

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: circumstances success achievement work effort

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: boldness vision leadership success achievement

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.
James R. Ball Soar...If You Dare
Categories: vision mission success self-confidence self-worth

Caution! The left-brained world wants you to "get your head out of the clouds, get your feet on the ground, and be just like us." To advance and prosper, steadfastly ignore that advice.
Marilyn Grey Soar...If You Dare
Categories: dreams vision potential success achievement

Failure is not failure to meet your goal. Real failure is failure to reach as high as you possibly can. No man will ever truly know that he had succeeded until he experiences an apparent failure.
Robert Schuller Words for All Occasions
Categories: failure courage fear success achievement

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: dreams goals vision mission success

Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-control self-esteem self-confidence character success

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: growth self-improvement learning education success

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: learning life skill growth success

The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: energy effort work success life

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: work achievement success perseverance effort

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?
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success praise values priorities failure

Character is destiny.
Heraclitus Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: character success integrity decisions future

We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: persevere effort work success ability

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ideas action work dreams success

What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-confidence attitude success fate self-determination

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: simple simplicity simplify focus success

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success business work fulfillment vocation

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-confidence self-esteem success trust character

Persistent work triumphs.
Virgil Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: work effort persistance perseverence success

He is well paid that is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: work effort fulfillment achievement success

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.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: self-esteem achievement action success self-doubt

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action desire work effort success

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!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Categories: success self-confidence faith vision mission

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.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: success balance effectiveness business compartmentalization

Good words do not last long until they amount to something.
Chief Joseph A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: words action speech success integrity

An uninspired mind is a handicap we all can do something about.
James R. Ball Soar... If You Dare
Categories: inspiration attitude enthusiasm motivation self-start success

Good enough never is.
Debbi Fields Bits & Pieces magazine
Categories: success achievement character perfectionism high standards

Most of those who succeed in achieving their goals do it by creating an environment for opportunity. They feel that they are entitled to go after what they want in life... They open themselves to positive change by becoming positive, energized people. They don't limit themselves with a poor self-image or a negative attitude. They get rid of negative baggage that holds them back. They believe in themselves, giving others cause to believe in them.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: success attitude self-image self-confidence self-improvement change

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude success determination self-esteem self-confidence optimism

A bold attempt is half success.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: courage bravery effort success achievement trying action

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: change growth wisdom soul mistakes success

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: practice effort work talent gift success

In all labor there is profit.
King Solomon Proverbs 14:23, Holy Bible
Categories: work effort action success job vocation career

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.
Phillip Sidney The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: vision goal achievement success ambition planning

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.
Thomas Robert Gaines The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort action results success achievement

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace! (Boldness, more boldness, always boldness!)
Georges Danton Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: courage daring boldness risk bravery success

Our history is not our destiny.
Alan Cohen Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: past future growth mistakes success failure

Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: heart thought character love integrity success

We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work progress success growth possessions self-esteem

We must remove the word "impossible" from our vocabulary.
Bernie S. Siegel Love, Medicine and Miracles : Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience With Exceptional Patients
Categories: words speech faith hope dreams success

When you analyze admirable lives, you find they are made up of minor details, of dabbling, of experiments, of people who look back and see they were preparing themselves for careers they didn't even know they wanted. Along the way they experience so many flukes and coincidences that you can only conclude that those who experiment put themselves in the path of happenstance, watched over by the angels of coincidence.
Dale Dauten "Greatest success comes from following dream" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, 5/15/2000
Categories: creativity imagination purpose fulfillment career success

We change constantly. Just as our cells die and are replenished every few months, new ideas present themselves continuously, opportunities bubble forth -- and our magnificent brains, all the while, keep processing millions of bits of information every day. If we're going to recognize and take advantage of the opportunities life affords us and at the same time worry well, we must accept this fundamental rule:

Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: change opportunities success worry fear failure

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.
Jennifer James Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: success growth change life balance joy happiness

Keep on truckin'.
Robert Crumb Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: persistence determination success challenges achievement adversity

From small beginnings come great things.
Dutch proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: plan success achievement dreams goals vision

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.
Bertrand Russell Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: passion vision mission dedication success achievement

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare (Measure by Measure) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: doubt self-confidence fear opportunity success failure

All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort success praise leadership teamwork

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Bernard Haldane Words for All Occasions
Categories: leadership mentoring education success praise compliment

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most wanted to do.
W.H. Auden The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: genius excellence success vision creativity invention

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: future vision goal success achievement dreams

Do the thing and you will be given the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: action effort work commitment success achievement

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters Dale Dauten's column, "Puncturing questionable advice, logic," printed in the December 24, 1998 Arizona Republic
Categories: success achievement goals self-starter mission procrastination

Practice builds skill. I've heard golfers and tennis players say, "The harder I practice, the luckier my game gets."
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: practice luck skill success goal achievement

The deed is everything, the glory naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort action success achievement recognition

Per ardua ad astra. (Through struggle to the stars.)
Motto of the Mulvaney family and the RAF The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: struggle growth difficulties success obstacles perseverance

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Henry James The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life live happiness action fulfillment success

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action laziness failure success work effort

No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
Andrew Carnegie Words for All Occasions
Categories: volunteerism help share success achievement giving back

Work is love made visible. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better they you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: work effort success purpose fulfillment meaning

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.
Tom Morris  The philosopher Tom Morris  by Anna Muoio,
Categories: success character talent skills work effort

The best books are yet to be written; the best paintings have not yet been painted; the best governments are yet to be formed; the best is yet to be done by you!
John Erskine Words for All Occasions
Categories: success possibilities vision mission goals dreams

There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: risks dream growth failure success experience

Every noble work is, at first, impossible.
Thomas Carlyle Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: purpose meaning fulfillment success vision creativity

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: goals vision courage risk success planning

Follow your desire as long as you live; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
Ptahhotep You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: desire vision goal success work effort

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness pleasure materialism frugality fulfillment success

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.
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Categories: success goal happiness action purpose meaning

Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.
John Neal The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: adversity strength struggle challenge success achievement

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to lose.
Richard Saunders (aka Doug Hall) Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: success risk bravery courage strength action

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Sigmund Freud Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: inspiration creativity ideas work effort success

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy...is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness fulfillment life living success goal

If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
Chinese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: kindness courtesy relationships friendship business success

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action understanding wisdom knowledge effort success

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: work effort action success focus perspective

Our problem is not lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing.
Mark Hatfield Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort action knowledge success failure

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: planning focus priorities habit mistakes success

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: courage risk vision daring success achievement

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Thomas Carlyle Words for All Occasions
Categories: purpose success action work effort meaning

Don't make your goals too easy; you'll be cheating yourself.
Alec Mackenzie The Time Trap
Categories: goals planning dreams achievement success potential

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: vision goal perseverence determination persistence success

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Charles Kettering The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: goal vision mission success achievement attainment

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
Dale Dauten "Follow your dream to find a business niche" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, 5/21/2001
Categories: success achievement courage exploration growth stretching

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: failure success vision mission planning priorities

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: vision determination perseverance success achievement planning

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy Words for All Occasions
Categories: courage risk daring success achievement vision

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue.
Horace Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: vice habit virtue goodness success self-control

From failure can come valuable experience; from experience -- wisdom; from wisdom -- mutual trust; from mutual trust -- cooperation; from cooperation -- united effort; from united effort -- success.
William A. Ward Words for All Occasions
Categories: failure failing mistakes growth achievement success

We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: self-esteem confidence attitude action behavior success

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it...A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: limitations fears fulfillment life waste success

Who works achieves and who sows reaps.
Arabian proverb The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: saying effort success perseverence persistence results rewards

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: mistakes failure success attitude self-confidence learning

The path to accelerating and enjoying the learning process requires us to see success and failure as equally instructive and valuable.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: learning life growth failure success mistakes

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: defeat victory failure success problems consequences

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: success vision failure introspection self-knowledge awareness

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success potential work effort achievement action

To continue learning is to embrace the process of trial and error at higher and higher levels.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: learning life growth mistakes failure success

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: failure defeat blame dignity responsibility success

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: success attitude decision vision mission goals

First, think.

Walt Disney Soar...If You Dare
Categories: success achievement planning belief faith dreams

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: humor perspective self-awareness error mistakes success

True success comes when you hit a crisis or rough spot, and people don't revert to their old behaviors.
Lynn Mercer "Want to lead better? It's simple," Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: success growth self-improvement reaction difficulties problems

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve...and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
Robert H. Lauer The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement determination persevere work effort

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: success meaning fulfillment life service giving

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have--at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love
Categories: dreams meaning purpose fulfillment joy happiness success

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: enthusiasm idea goals thought opportunity success

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: dreams vision mission goals planning success

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: lazy laziness success failure work effort

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life fear success growth change courage

They build too low who build beneath the skies.
Edward Young The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: dreams vision goals success achievement ambition

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas Edison The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement work effort persevere determination

Do not be too timid and squeamish...All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life change growth mistakes failure success fear

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.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: goals objectives success happiness action planning priorities

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: effort action opportunity work procrastination wisdom success

First, almost all of us can do heroic things with our lives if we believe in ourselves and our goals. Second, most directions we need to actualize our goals are housed within ourselves.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: confidence goals self-esteem ability actualization resources success

Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: change challenge growth success beliefs self-esteem confidence

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life perspective meaning joy purpose wisdom success growth

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power--a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: desire vision mission goals purpose success perseverance

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.
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: success happiness peace fulfillment treasure action giving doing

Just as an appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.
Igor Stravinsky The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: work effort success excellence achievement goals mission

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.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: success vision progress performance feedback change growth

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work goal success achievement mistakes effort

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors: competence (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity (your identity, your character, your attitude).
Peter Koestenbaum "Do you have the will to lead?" by Polly LaBarre, Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: leadership meditation authenticity character action results success

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!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Categories: talents goals encourage gifts growth sharing success

In this country, every man is the architect of his own ambitions.
Horton Bain The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: personal responsibility ambition goals success achievement vision

Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
African (Hausa) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: success achievement humility humble boasting pride perspective

Who begins much, finishes little.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: focus goals planning mission vision success judgement

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.
Fran Tarkenton Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: perfectionism success willingness action obstacles fear failure

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: hope defeat success believe faith victory positive negative

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced course of action your should take--choose the bolder.
W.J. Slim The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action boldness courage vision mission success achievement

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
Red Cloud A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: priorities materialism money peace love balance success

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: success focus vision plan goal persistance determination

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Sir Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: opportunity success business vision mission goal dream

The greats often became great because they continued to believe in themselves despite apparent failures.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: excellence success failure growth vision potential self-confidence

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: work effort determination success failure vision action

There is always a better way.
Thomas Edison Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: growth change progress self-improvement success opportunity creativity

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: optimism pessimism self-confidence belief expectations success failure

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: circumstances habit mood temper attitude self-control success

Our ways of thinking make our happiness or unhappiness, our success or nonsuccess. We can, by effort, change our ways of thinking.
H. Emilie Cady Lessons in Truth
Categories: optimism thoughts habits beliefs success happiness achievement

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness life success work achievement progress growth

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail big.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: failure mistakes risk courage bravery daring success

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill Soar...If You Dare
Categories: potential belief faith achievement success vision goal

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Franklin Day Planner, 1994 November
Categories: thought words speech action work effort success

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: focus concentration vision priorities balance success energy

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus concentration vision priorities mission balance success

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: progress growth change experience learning life success

The how-to-succeed literature would have us forever looking for mountains to conquer. But the world's doers aren't interested in conquering a mountain -- they want to be conquered by it, to fall in love with the adventure and the discovery.


Dale Dauten "Striving to be best is a sure way to the top" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, 7/17/2000
Categories: goals success passion fulfillment meaning purpose motive

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand this human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson.
Peter Koestenbaum "Do you have the will to lead?" by Polly LaBarre, Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: self-awareness meaning fulfillment purpose direction goals success

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: achievement success goals vision mission enthusiasm life

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life opportunity vision good action happiness success

Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
Dr. Harvey Cushing Words for All Occasions
Categories: enthusiasm drive success difficulties adversity problems challenges

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.
Lady Marguerite Blessington Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: talent ability skill practice work effort success

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: success achievement visualization mental preparation stage fright

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.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: dreams vision goal values character success achievement

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.
H. W. Arnold Words for All Occasions
Categories: enthusiasm success failure difficulties problems challenges adversity

He had the deed half done, who has made a beginning.
Horace Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: change action beginning effort goal progress success

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it -- as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Soar...If You Dare
Categories: potential belief faith vision goal success achievement

Our thoughts create our reality--not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is"--but eventually. Where we put our focus--our inner and outer vision--is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: vision ideas goals success desire change self-improvement

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Robert Half Words for All Occasions
Categories: action thought work effort success creativity imagination

...leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence...not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: leadership quest vision growth change success achievement

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude choice optimismist optimistic success self-improvement change

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J.H. Boetcker The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort will desire leadership success achievement

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Lucas Lorimer Light from Many Lamps
Categories: money possessions success happiness meaning fulfillment balance joy

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.
Andre Maurois Light from Many Lamps
Categories: success materialism focus possessions goals unhappiness depression

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: optimism attitude faith achievement success hope confidence

One of the big differences between the nonachiever and the achiever is that the latter has mastered the art of applying the obvious.
Allan Cox Words for All Occasions
Categories: success failure procrastination action work effort ability

An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.
Zig Ziglar Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimism optimistic optimist enthusiasm self-confidence success

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life happiness acceptance blame complain fulfillment success

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: leisure work effort priorities success courage bravery

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success failure attitude mistakes victory defeat enthusiasm

He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort thought vision success leadership

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement self-confidence overcome difficulties challenges problems

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: generosity generous giving sharing business expectations success

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.
Herbert Kaufman The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort success determination follow-through consistency achievement

In ancient times, everyone was considered to possess inner genius. It was a kind of guardian spirit that accompanied a person through life and helped one overcome odds and achieve personal heights. We've lost touch with this original meaning of genius (related etymologically to the fabled genie in the lamp) in all our concern over IQ testing and similar nonsense. It's time we brought it back.
Thomas Armstrong, PhD 7 Kinds of Smart
Categories: genius brainpower cognition smart ability capability success

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: skills talents ability success practice work effort

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step in the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success hurry desperation individualism creativity unique vision

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: doubt mistrust imagination risk courage bravery success

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability skill success determination vision goal planning

Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur Franklin Seasons Planner, September 30, 1993
Categories: lucky preparation planning goals strategies strategy success

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.
Charles Kendall Adams The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort success achievement vision goal self-determination

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: quality character intergrity common sense intentions success

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-pity depression sadness attitude success failure wisdom

Latent abilities are like clay. It can be mud on shoes, brick in a building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the same. The result is dependent on how it is used.
James F. Lincoln The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability talent skill work effort success failure

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: risk courage strength bravery goal vision success

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought action work effort planning vision achievement success

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: ability success planning priorities vision mission goals dreams

...not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift--yours and mine.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love
Categories: dreams fulfillment meaning purpose ministry giving sharing success

To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: simplicity humility success greatness character authenticity honesty integrity

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering Words for All Occasions
Categories: opportunities attitude optimism optimist optimistic self-confidence vision success

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action goal growth ability talent achievement success perservere

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.
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: success talent ability work effort goal vision mission

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage risk daring action virtue success progress growth

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Clement Stone Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimist optimism pessimist pessimism enthusiasm success failure

Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: talk words speech action effort work success leadership

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson, Sr., founder of IBM Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: failure success mistakes creativity challenges growth learning education

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill...Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson Franklin Planner 1993.
Categories: persevere persistance work effort skill diligence strength success

Problems are sent to us as gifts.
Ancient Oriental teaching Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: problems challenges obstacles difficulties learning growth progress success

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today.
Wilfred A. Peterson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: service ministry friendships relationships success achievement work effort

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: fate destiny effort success work vision personal responsibility

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills self.
William C. Doane The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: adversity challenges difficulties problems attitude excellence success achievement

Ability is useless unless it's used.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability skill talent effort work laziness achievement success

The longer I live, the more deeply convinced that what makes the difference between one man and another, the great and the insignificant, is energy, that invincible determination, a purpose that once formed nothing can take away. The energetic quality will do anything that is meant by God to be done in this world, and no talent, training, opportunity, or circumstance will make any man without it.
Sir Thomas Buxton Words for All Occasions
Categories: energy enthusiasm success achievement goals work effort action

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: expectations attitude success dream goal vision mission character

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: noise silence speech emotions power success serenity peace

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal.
Mary Beard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action planning vision leadership effort work achievement success

A thought that does not result in action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: planning vision work effort achievement success thought action

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort action success procrastination achievement planning chunking

Persistance is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: persistance persevere persever impossible impossibility work effort success

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action desire goal vision mission planning responsibility success

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufstedler Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: risk bravery courage vision mission opportunity success caution

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 9:11
Categories: persevere determination stick to it work effort success desire action

A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
Donald Kircher The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability desire determination vision goal mission success achievement

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: direction vision mision goal action work effort success

Small matters win great commendation.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: details business responsibility attention success effort focus work

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Richard Saunders Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: try attempt risk strength courage bravery leadership effort success

Life experience teaches that we generally get back what we put out. If we don't like what we are getting back, we should examine what we are putting out.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: happiness mood attitude reciprocation depression sadness success failure

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness meaning money wealth materialism possessions success achievement

Now that we know we can't change the past we can realize that at this very moment we have the wonderful opportunity to begin anew! If you want something there is simply no better time than right now to pursue it!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Categories: opportunity past future vision goal growth change success

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...
We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare, from Julius Caesar Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: courage risk daring bravery success vision achievement goals

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action thought vision planning mission goal success failure

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude determination success try negativity negative positivity positive failure

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book--provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Erich Fromm Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: ideas creativity work effort mission goal success achievement

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to
W.H. Murray Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: commitment plan vision mission goal achievement resources success

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
William Dean Howell The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: words deeds actions empty promises results success achievement just do it

Still achieving, still pursuing.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: achievement mission goal vision fulfillment success work effort

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: progress growth achievement success goal vision mission meaning

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.
Leo Buscaglia Born for Love
Categories: failure success mistakes learning determination persevere growth on the job training

Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Shakti Gawain The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: work effort joy happiness success excellence achievement purpose meaning fulfillment

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than before.
Stewart B. Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work success achievement attainment competition competitive vision self-improvement growth

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along.
Carl Hubbell The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: reputation pride conceit vanity success work effort vision service

The man is born with a talent which he has meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: talent ability capacity work success happiness joy meaning fulfillment purpose

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.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: speech talk words peace attitude mood contented happy success

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
Pearl S. buck Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: proactive moods self-determination action success accomplishments growth work effort

Doing is significantly different than not doing. Dong not only "gets things done," it teaches lessons you cannot possibly learn theoretically and can loosen even the most stubbornly entrenched feelings.
Carol Lloyd Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: work effort action success achievement learning growth emotions self-improvement

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus excellence success vision mission priorities work talent skill

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: happiness joy meaning purpose fulfillment goals mission vision achievement success

This is a world of action, and nor for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort success whining complaining making excuses rationalization

Too many people are mere products of their context, lacking the will to change, to develop their potential. I also believe, however, that anyone, of any age and in any circumstances, can transform himself if he wants to.
Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader
Categories: will change growth victim of circumstances self-actualization self-determination learning success achievement

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.
Benjamin F. Fairless The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement goals vocation joy work effort opportunity team cooperation

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind... Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in in one swift and sweeping act of achievement... But you can do it gradually--day by day and play by play--if you want to do it, if you will do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.
William E. Holler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement goal work effort action persistence perseverence determination

Safe is all right for the brain dead; safe means they can't screw it up. It also means they can't be great.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: risk courage bravery strength safety success mistakes vision action

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau Light from Many Lamps
Categories: success work effort vision goal failure self-improvement growth mission

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life time success priorities focus vision mission goal happiness

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Finding Flow: The Psychololgy of Engagement With Everyday Life
Categories: creativity innovation business success achievement managing vision employee recognition

You don't really conquer such a mountain. You conquer yourself. You overcome the sickness and everything else -- your pain, aches, fears -- to reach the summit.
James Whittaker Harvey Mackay's column "Achievers focus on road rather than the bumps" in the Feb. 21, 1999 Arizona Republic.
Categories: strength courage overcoming obstacles difficulties challenges problems success achievement

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.
Henry Hoskins Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: enthusiastic positive thinking optimism energy work effort success achievement

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Jerry Greenfield, cofounder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: mistakes success failure leadership risk bravery strength courage vision

Boldness is the fruit of hope.
Phillipine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action boldness hope vision success achievement risk courage daring

Devotion is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
J.F.T. Bugental Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: purpose fulfillment meaning focus dedication vision mission goal success

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
Samuel Johnson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness family relationships parenting children ambition success priorities balance

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.
Charles L. Allen in "How to Get What You Want" Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: focus clarity vision purpose goal mission visualization determination achievement success

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: intentions action success aspiration growth goal vision mission effort work

It is foolish to postpone enjoyment of your ordinary life until you are more successful, more secure, or more loved than you are today.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: joy happiness perfectionism routine present life success security love foolishness wisdom

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress! With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford Words for All Occasions
Categories: enthusiasm enthusiastic hope energy attitude courage perseverance progress success achievement

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.
C. West Churchman Words for All Occasions
Categories: innovation imagination assumptions assume assuming wisdom growth improvement success achievement

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba The Art of Peace
Categories: simplicity power status peace joy happiness life success growth heaven money

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: ideas thought thinking creativity work effort imagination success achievement attainment

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H.L. Hunt Franklin Seasons Planner, September 11, 1993
Categories: choice responsibility work effort sacrifice mission planning priorities priority success

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
Dale Dauten 'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99)
Categories: love joy attitude gratitude change growth self-improvement resolutions relationships success excellence

The great law of culture:
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: potential talents gifts skills ability capability cap strive striving success excellence

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success progress achievement attainment imagination creativity leadership mentorship encouragement mentoring

The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in union with it, that was the miracle.
Anais Nin Simple Abundance
Categories: dream vision success achievement constant struggle work effort goal mission

Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination.
Carol Lloyd Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: creative expression creativity inspired determination effort work imagine achievement success

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
Morris Adler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: prayer desires wishes challenge success attainment achievement fulfillment meaning purpose

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.
Calvin Coolidge Power Quotes
Categories: money possessions materialism priorities focus wealth success riches prosperity balance

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: goal achievement success purpose focus vision mission work life living

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: persistence persevere success determination desire vision mission goal work effort

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: ideas criticism goal progress invention obstacles challenges difficulties success persevere

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.
Elbert Hubbard Light from Many Lamps
Categories: genius effort action failure success patience achievement perseverance defeat purpose

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time life work effort success goal vision planning priorities balance

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.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: visualization success failure worry stress wellness breathing energy dreams vision

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions--but precious few of them ever translate those into action.
John Hancock Field The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thoughts actions effort ideas intentions outcome success achievement put your money where your mouth is

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.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: achievement success work focus persevere self-denial vision mission luck purpose

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: contemplation study education learning knowledge misery happiness joy attitude focus success

But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
``Indeed is too mellow for me.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: integrity choice work effort success achievement goal vision planning windfall

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Frederick Pierce The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meditation visualization success planning vision mission achievement opportunity opportunities attitude

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-confidence self-assured strength bravery courage achievement success failure fear afraid

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: responsibility action work effort integrity character honesty success achievement mission goals

The only difference between a thought and physical reality is time, passion (love or hate), and physical activity.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: thought work effort vision mission goal planning success creativity creation idea

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.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: no failure refusal defeat success mistakes character honesty sincerity virtue courage bravery

Newborn ideas are fragile, like babies. They need nurturing, protecting, patience, loving, commitment. They require you to sit up with them at night, fret over their futures, watch them grow. And like babies, they can't be hurried. They unfurl and blossom in their own time.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: ideas creativity create success artists artistic writer painter composer inventor art inventions

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: courage bravery daring dare self-determination expectations work effort success goal vision

...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.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: change progress future vision authenticity virtues patience compassion perseverance success actualization

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: past performance words actions resting on your laurels work effort success achievement leadership

The young man of native ability, (with) the will to work and good personality will, in the long run, get the equivalent of a college education in the tasks he will set for himself. If he has ability and determination, he will find ways to learn and to get ahead.
Edward G. Seubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability determination work personality character education goal self-improvement learning experience success

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort self-respect usefulness focus balance priorities planning vision mission success

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Admiral Collingwood The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: achievement vision leadership goal dream work effort success action history determination

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy success achievement goal creativity creation work effort purpose meaning fulfillment.

Your world is as big as you make it,
I know for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner,
My wings pressing close to my side.

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!
Georgia Douglas Johnson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: risk security caution bravery strength attitude belief self-confidence freedom success achievement

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-confidence action creativity work gifts talents ability achievement success goals vision mission

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.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: mistakes self-esteem success confidence talent resistance failure potential learning performance criticism growth

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: determination persistence persevere goal mission vision convictions victory success defeat honor wisdom

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: fortune anger success passivity reactive proactive work effort business vision mission planning

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: risk daring bravery courage safety success achievement vision entrepreneurship business choice goal

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!
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: success future happiness life poise wisdom complaints time energy rules attitude perseverance

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: enthusiasm drive success attitude goal dream vision obstacles problems difficulties significance meaning

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Arnold Bennett The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: time procrastination work effort success results goal vision mission purpose meaning achievement

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
Robert Schuller Franklin Day Planner, July 2, 1993
Categories: dream vision action work effort self-confidence speech thought words success achievement attainment

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
Henry B. Wilson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement work effort overcome overcoming obstacles challenges difficulty difficulties vision plan

You would be surprised how many people quit when faced with obstacles. As every good salesman knows, everything may not be possible today, but sooner or later, it is possible.
Earl Graves To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: failure mistake giving up give up pessimism optimism vision goals success self-confidence possibility possibilities