Saturday, November 04, 2006

ACTION .

Action

Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.
Michelle Keesling


Nothing happens until I make it happen.
Contributed by: Scott Wilson


You can’t build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford


I think one's feelings waste themselves in words;

they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale


Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay


I think there is something, more important than believing: Action!

The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough

who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone


Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and

begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill


There are costs and risks to a program of action,

but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy


What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen


Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin


Just Do It!
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done,

of what he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi


Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin


Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda


As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.

I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie


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


Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer


You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.
Irish Proverb


The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley


Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli


Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder


Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily

by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
Helen Gahagan Douglas


I have long since come to believe that people never mean

half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson


The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until

he does so by his actions.
Source Unknown


Good intentions are not good enough...

ultimately we are measured by our actions.
Source Unknown


Conditions are never just right. People who delay

action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke


Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving.

They make mistakes, bu they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton


To do nothing is in every man's power.
Samuel Johnson


Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take.

You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert

Achievement

Achievement

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes


"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham


Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand


Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi


To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France


There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash


Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie


The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON


If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.


Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous


Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan


All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai


Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh


The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder


If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey


There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland


High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder


An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus


Ability

Ability

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte


People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards


Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel


Natural abilities are like natural plants;

they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon


Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes


Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities,

and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton


It is a fine thing to have ability,

but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard


The Creator has not given you a longing to do that

which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden


Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw


They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil


The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;

it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington


We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder


Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren


What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse;

however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming,

I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


If we did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison


Ability is what you're capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz


Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe


We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow


Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly

with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian


You have to have confidence in your ability, and

then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter

Courage

Courage

The stories of past courage... can offer hope,

they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself.

For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy


All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney


A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero


Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway


Courage is the first of human qualities,

because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill


Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear -

not absence of fear.
Mark Twain


Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.

It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton


Perfect courage is todo without witnesses

what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD


We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in

which we really stop to look fear in the face ...

we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor


The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,

we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,

but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing


In order to discover new lands,

one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Anonymous


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali


You can't test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop


I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson


Difficulties

Difficulties

Real difficulties can be overcome;

it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail


The individual who know the score about

life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale


There are two ways of meeting difficulties:

you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome


You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and

have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault.

The same with man. No man will succeed unless

he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker


The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask,

Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris


Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,

you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn


If you would only recognize that life is hard,

things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis


Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank


The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in

difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty

that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle


No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our

wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us,

no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Roy Lessin


If I were asked to give what I consider the single most

useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes,

hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say,

"I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers


Difficulties should act as a tonic.

They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes


The Difficult is that which can be done immediately;

the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana


It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth


Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William E. Channing


Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed,

it is difficulties that make the triumph.

It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Source Unknown


Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford


It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time

they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein


To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka


Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland


For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.

I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa


Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;

but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving


A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Gunderson


Obstacles are like wild animals.

They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.

If they see you are afraid of them...

they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye,

they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden


The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort

and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African Proverb


It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi


Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale


You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt


Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,

they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler


Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles

and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale


I studied the lives of great men and famous women,

and I found that the men and women who got to

the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,

with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman


A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab


The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr


If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,

let it be - enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton


Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream.

This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it,

taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley


You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford


Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson


It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr


Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles


Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale


Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it?

You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks


Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and

without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Kahlil Gibran


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


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


There is a real magic in enthusiasm.

It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale


Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee


A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm

will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash


Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

FAILURE

Failure

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Ferdinand Foch


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


If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Collins, Marva


I don't know the the key to success,

but the key to failure is trying to please everbody.
Cosby, Bill


It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Lombardi, Vince


There is always another chance...

This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.
Pickford, Mary


Far better it is to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Roosevelt, Theodore


Nobody makes a greater mistake than

he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke


If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes.

You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin


It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers --

they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw


The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard


So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.

Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.


We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success;

we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do;

and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles


A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw


To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard


It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli


There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -

not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha


An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
O. A. Battista


I have made mistakes,

but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett


Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow.

Pain nourishes your courage.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore


All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill


The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.

The way he loses shows all of it.
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize

how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison


Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you don't accept failure as a possibility,

you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -

you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter


For every failure, there's an alternative course of action.

You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash


There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard


A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure

until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs


There are two kinds of failures:

The man who will do nothing he is told,

and the man who will do nothing else.
Perle Thompson


If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson, Sr


Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill


It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
SueEllen Fried


Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford


The majority of men meet with failure because

of their lack of persistence in creating new plans

to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill


I honestly think it is better to be a failure at

something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns


Many people dream of success. To me,

success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Soichiro Honda


Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people

who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver


No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move.

Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller


Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Walter Brunell


I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me

. . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan


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


Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote


There is something good in all seeming failures.

You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sri Swami Sivananda



Happiness

Happiness

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves.

It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel,


like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin


The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow


Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.
Frank Tyger


Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and

approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn -

yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity.

These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people.
Jack C Yewell


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are

something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison


If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see

if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve!

It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy.
George Matthew Adams


Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others

without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have,

or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things

we do have and can have. As we value our happiness

let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons

in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Richard L. Evans


Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now.

The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha


Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills


There are two types of people in this world, good and bad.

The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen


Those who have easy,

cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than

those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money,

'making it', or success.

Dr. Joyce Brothers


The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer


It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.

Poverty and wealth have both failed.
KIN HUBBARD


When one door of happiness closes, another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door that

we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keller, Helen


There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
Alma Guillermoprieto


Life is to be fortified by many friendships.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith


Did you ever see an unhappy horse?

Did you ever see bird that had the blues?

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because

they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie


Many people think that if they were only in some other place,

or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful.

So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as

you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie


Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world,

whether you have money or not.
Jerry Gellis


It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone

that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L'Estrange


You have succeeded in life when all you really

want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard


We are more interested in making others believe

we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld


Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned,

worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual

experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley


Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Anonymous


Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Anonymous


Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone


Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
Jim Rohn


It doesn't get any better than this.
Author Unknown


The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus A. Antoninus


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer


Motivation


Motivation

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun


People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -

that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar


In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire.

No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley


Motivation is a fire from within.

If someone else tries to light that fire under you,

chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey


Motivation comes from within.
Author Unknown


Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand


People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity,

no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie


Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done,

it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer


Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope,

not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill


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


You have a very powerful mind that can make anything

happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


TIME


Time


Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci


One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it.

Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
P.W. Litchfield


Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have

if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott


Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca


Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz


Don't say you don't have enough time.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,

Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,

Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown


You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton


It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot


It takes time to build a castle.
Irish Proverb


A minute now is better than a minute later.
Anonymous


Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Anonymous


One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous


You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin


Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time

we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers


Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time,

there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther


Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Diogenes Laetius


The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ...
Michel de Montaigne


Time is really the only capital that any human being has,

and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas Edison


We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy


Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe


If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca


One today is worth two tomorrows.
Franklin


Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours.

They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge.

If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour.

What will you do with this priceless treasure?
Author Unknown


Don't be fooled by the calendar.

There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

One man gets only a week's value out of a year

while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
Charles Richards



Perseverance

Perseverance


The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is:

that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher


The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and

the exercise of ordinary qualities.

These may for the most part be summed up in these two -

common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham


Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch


God helps those who persevere.
The Koran


The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff


Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott


Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill


Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want,


the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by

people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie


You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher


Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch


Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before

which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams


Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson


Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game,

one foot from a winning touchdown.
H. Ross Perot


A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha


If you want to get somewhere you have to know where

you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale


I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary

people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Herhiser


How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn


Perseverance is a great element of success;

if you only knock long enough and loud enough at

the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour.
Catherine Pulsifer


We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller


Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews


Success



Success


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


Nothing happens until I make it happen.
contributed by: Scott Wilson


That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln


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


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


Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden


Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher


It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
John R. Amos


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


What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller


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


The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner


Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau


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


Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald


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


Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas


People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie


Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman


It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor


Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.
Dave Gardner


The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell


Opportunity

Opportunity


Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte


Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power living latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Marden, Orison Swett

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.
Contributed by Joe Brown


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein


There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle


Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.


Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter


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


Too many people are thinking of securty instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes


The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill


I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.


Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz


If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown


It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young, Jr.


Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home.
Jinger Heath


Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demmosthenes


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon


Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control.
M. Charles Wheeler


Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English Proverb


It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams


When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy


The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan


Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers


Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
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