Great Quotes on SUCCESS
Written by Miscellaneous Contributers
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~ Henry Ford
- It’s never too late to be who you might have been. ~ George Elliot
- Talk does not cook rice. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Rule your mind or it will rule you. ~ Horace
- The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets
of our great men. ~ Captain J.A. Hatfield
- It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water. ~ Ben Franklin
- Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain. Adversity is your best friend on the path to success.
~ Unknown
- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. ~ Sidney Greenberg
- As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. ~ Paul Shane Spear
- Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. ~ George Halas
- A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. ~ Richard Nixon
- To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen. ~ Unknown
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Edison
- The mind is like a parachute – it works only when it is open. ~ Unknown
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ~ Colin Powell
- I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. ~ Talleyrand
- Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers – not their minds. ~ Unknown
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison
- Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. ~ Kim Lyons
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey
- Truth fears no trial. ~ Proverb
- How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. ~ David Norris
- If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. ~ George B. Shaw, 1856 – 1950
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self. ~ Aristotle
- Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ~ Barbara Johnson
- One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~ Dale Carnegie
- Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. ~ Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947
- Success is your dreams with work clothes on… ~ Unknown
- The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Robert Byrne
- If you take too long deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find out you’ve done it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry S Truman
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one. ~ Unknown
- To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. ~ Richard Bach
- The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. ~ John D. Rockefeller
- Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. ~ (On an American plaque)
- Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke
- Success is a journey, not a destination. ~ Unknown
- The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. ~ Rosabeth Moss Cantor
- I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ~ Helen Keller
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ~ Roosevelt
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. ~ Beverly Sills
- Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. ~ John Maxwell
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ~ Ronald E. Osborn
- If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe. ~ John Maxwell
- If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. ~ David Ambrose
- Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ~ Charles Lindbergh, Aviation pioneer
- Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. ~ J.C. Penny
- To bring one’s self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. ~ Thomas A. Buckner
- Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ~ John Wooden
- You must do the very thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work. ~ Booker T. Washington
- A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change. ~ Lester C. Thurow
- True success is obeying God. ~ John Maxwell
- There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it.
~ Monta Crane
- Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? ~ Frank Scully
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ~ Booker T. Washington
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~ James Russell Lowell
- The secret of success is consistency of purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. ~ St. Francis De Sales
- I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody. ~ Mr. Herbert Bayard Swope
- Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day.
- Sometimes our best is simply not enough…. We have to do what is required. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
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