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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
- Conrad Hilton

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster’s Law

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
- Robert Frost

 An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott

Life is “trying things to see if they work”
Ray Bradbury

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.
Anonymous

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

 “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington

“Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
- Robert Frost

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
- Maya Angelou

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

“You are what you think about all day long.” — Dr. Robert Schuller

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- William James

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


11 Comments

  1. J. Chan says:

    Like having your own licence to print money.

  2. Mark Keith says:

    Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  3. Kevin Williams says:

    An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

  4. Jeremy House says:

    For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

  5. O. Richard says:

    A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  6. N. Robles says:

    You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

  7. Christopher Buck says:

    Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

  8. Willie Camacho says:

    A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

  9. Melissa Wagner says:

    First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

  10. Jean Cline says:

    Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

  11. Sean Villa says:

    I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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