success Quotes

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

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. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Destiny is not a 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.

We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

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. In no country but America , I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation.

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.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences, but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.

What is lovely never dies , But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love.

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.

To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

All love at first, like generous wine , Ferments and frets until tis fine; But when tis settled on the lee, And from the impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never . . . never forget it.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out candles and fans fire.

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top- gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly's wing on a sheet of spider's web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral's flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it .

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Happiness is a myth we seek , If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks . For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights ; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.

True happiness must have the tinge of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain softened by the mellowing years, the chastening of loss that in the wondrous mystery of time transmutes our suffering into love and sympathy with others.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all: Into each life some rain must fall; Some days must be dark and dreary.

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.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball , And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.

You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.

Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs! Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things! Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine: The past, the present, and the future time. Thy reminiscences transport the soul To memory's Paradise , its future goal.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead.

Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this.

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means - you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life.

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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

The art of winning in business is in working hard, not taking things too seriously.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

Winners are naturally bullish.

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

When you win, nothing hurts.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

1. Be Proactive. 2. Begin with the end in mind. 3. Put first things first. 4. Think win win. 5. Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood. 6. Synergize. 7. Sharpen the saw.

We're worn into grooves by Time by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement.

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when 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.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

One of the most common reasons so few people are consistently able to achieve meaningful results is that they are unwilling to experience the discomfort associated with relentlessly pursuing a correct perception of reality.

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world, introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerable, that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.

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

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France , we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. . . . And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in God's own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.

Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.

One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances.

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

Don't accept that others know you better than yourself? Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort, disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely, they will make or break you.

The most vital test of a man's character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy. Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, ' Opportunity '.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win, there's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.

The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

If winning isn't important, why keep score?

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.

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-Jack Can field Co-Author Chicken Soup for the Soul® and The Power of Focus I - S S - I By Thomas J. ViWord 1001 Motivational Quotes for Success Great Quotes from Great Minds Copyright © 2002 by Thomas J. Vilord 2nd Printing -Copyright © 2004 by Thomas J. Vilord All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted without written permission from the publisher. Publisher: Garden State Publishing 100 Springdale Road, A3 PMB # 207 Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 Phone: 856-371-0146 E-Mail: gardenstatepublishing@vahoo.com Cover Design: David Girgenti Library of Congress Control Number: 2002095149 1001 Motivational Quotes for Success Great Ouotes from Great Minds By Thomas J. Vilord ISBN 0-9725174-0-5 1. Self-development 2. Business 3. Self-help Printed in Canada To my wife Vicki, Mom, Dad, and my Grandmother Mrs. Dolly Salvato Thank you for all of your love and support! Acknowledgements Bob Marlin from Visual Media Inc. Lynn Marlin from New Horizon Graphics Inc. David Girgenti from Design Command Center Steve Johnson from Outsell Dan Poynter from Para Publishing Ren6 Nedelkoff from Four Colour Imports Ltd. Ralph Hamm from Friesens I would also give a special thanks to Robert Thomas, author of

The soul migrates from body to body. Weapons cannot cleave it, nor fire consume it, nor water drench it, nor wind dry it. This is the soul and this is what is meant by the existence of the soul.

Their relationship changes from good friends to Master and disciple. It is Sri Krishna's revelations that give the Gita its Divine power. Sanjaya the scribe of the Gita remembered the words of Sri Krishna and this is why the Gita is usually looked upon as śruti, or revealed knowledge. Even though technically the Gita is Smrti because it was later remembered and written down by Sanjaya. When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. - Albert Einstein Abhi SharmaPage 21 Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your sufferings. It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return. No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve His purpose. Balance of mind is called Yoga. It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors, which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. For certain is death for the born... And certain is birth for the dead... Therefore, over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. Abhi SharmaPage 22 Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes. Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. Be free from fear. Be fearless and have faith in the divine. Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all. Abhi SharmaPage 23 Yatra yogesvarah krsno yatra partho dhanur-dharah tatra srir vijayo bhutirdhruva nitir matir mama || 18-78 ||The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind. The last verse of Bhagavad-Gita, which is known as 'One Verse Gita' This last verse of Bhagavad-Gita from Chapter 18 (Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation) explains: Wherever there is Krishna, the master of all mystics (Yoga and wisdom), and wherever there is Arjuna (True Devotee), the supreme archer (performer of his/her duties), there will always certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality (policy).The knowledge sacrifice is superior to any material sacrifice. No one is even equal to You in the three worlds how can there be one greater than You O Being of Incomparable Glory. But, you are not able to see Me with your physical eye therefore, I give you the divine eye to see My majestic power and glory. (Ek Sloki Gita) Abhi SharmaPage 24 Quotes on Bhagwad Gita

Every Orgenization rests upon a mountain of secrets. Abhi SharmaPage 103 Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves. True information does good. The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist. The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India - a nation I love. We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. Abhi SharmaPage 104 KBack to Content List Karl Marx Abhi SharmaPage 105 Karl Marx Question everything. A hugely influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher, Marx did not live to see his ideas carried out in his own lifetime, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended his life long collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified. They co-authored the pamphlet 'The Communist Manifesto' which was published in 1848 and asserted that all human history had been based on class struggles, but that these would ultimately disappear with the victory of the proletariat. In 1849, Marx moved to London, where he was to spend the remainder of his life. For a number of years, his family lived in poverty but the wealthier Engels was able to support them to an increasing extent. Gradually, Marx emerged from his political and spiritual isolation and produced his most important body of work, 'Das Kapital'. The first volume of this 'bible of the working class' was published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes were edited by Engels after his friend's death. In his final years, Karl Marx was in creative and physical decline. He spent time at health spas and was deeply distressed by the death of his wife, in 1881, and one of his daughters. He died on 14 March 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in London. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Abhi SharmaPage 106 The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Democracy is the road to socialism. All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Abhi SharmaPage 107 LBack to Content List Leo Tolstoy Abhi SharmaPage 108 Leo Tolstoy When joy disappears, look for your mistake.Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy (1828-1910). A Russian novelist, reformer, and moral thinker. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate a hundred miles south of Moscow, on August 28. He died on November 20 at a nearby railroad station, having fled in the night from an increasingly contentious marriage and a set of familial relationships that had been hardened in large part by Tolstoy's attempts to apply his radical moral beliefs to his own life. In the intervening eighty-two years Tolstoy became perhaps the most prominent novelist in an age and place of great authors as well as a vociferous critic of science and modernization. Tolstoy's international fame rests primarily on two novels, War and Peace (1865-1869) and Anna Karenina (1875-1877). His fictional works also include short masterpieces such as

. Berkshire's annual reports and letters to shareholders, prepared by Buffett, frequently receive coverage by the financial media. Buffett's writings are known for containing quotations from sources as ranging between the Bible and Mae West, as well as advice in a Midwestern folk style, and numerous jokes. What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Abhi SharmaPage 188 Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Never invest in a business you can't understand.I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. Without passion, you don't have energy. Without energy, you have nothing. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people. It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. Abhi SharmaPage 189 Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact. I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Abhi SharmaPage 190 Will Rogers Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers was first an Indian, a cowboy and a national figure. Born in 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what later would become Oologah, Oklahoma, Will Rogers was taught by a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch. As he grew older, Will Rogers' roping skills developed so special that he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three lassos at once: One rope caught the running horse's neck, the other would hoop around the rider and the third swooped up under the horse to loop all four legs. Will Rogers' unsurpassed lariat feats were recorded in the classic movie,

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The man who has more confidence in his product than the customer does will win every time.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.