could remember anything
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
-Mark Twain
Success never come & Look for you...
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up & work at making your dreams come true.
-P.Y. Khing
Faces with all the tears
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
-Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972)
power of sense
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
-Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924)
Be focused on achieving goals
"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."
-Les Brown
Nothing can hinder...
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Too light TO too heavy
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
- Warren Buffett
Natural Reward...
"It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well."
- Joseph Ross
Great power
"Believe there is a great power silently working on all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."
-Beatrix Potter
Discrimination...
"It is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin."
-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (27 Oct 1858-1919)
Problem & Opportunity
"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 and turned it into an opportunity."
-Joseph Sugarman
Man to trust
"A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. ... America's strength doesn't come from lashing out. Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power. That's the kind of Commander-in-Chief I pledge to be."
-Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, Senator, Democratic nominee for the US president (b. 26 Oct 1947)
Silence the voice
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Why I succeed?
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
-Michael Jordan
Really Successful People
"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."
-Warren Buffett
Real Character
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (25 Oct 1800-1859)
Life - A Magnificent Story
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page."
-Mark Houlahan
Best of the Way
"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
-John Wooden
Must strike....until it is
"We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot."
-Tom Sharp
...within the problems
"Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems."
-Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979)
Beauty around you
"Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul."
- Alice Walker
Own depth
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
- Kahlil Gibran
Game of Life
There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!
-Zig Ziglar
Precious and subtle thoughts
"Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved."
-Richard C. Trench, poet (1807-1886)
Have more potential
"No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime."
-James T. Mccay
Mind Map
If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
-Zig Ziglar
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Do it boldly
"I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong leave it undone."
-Gilpin
Willing servant
"The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness is a command to deliver mental resources."
-Norman Vincent Peale
Names??
"I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff."
-Lewis Grizzard, humorist (20 Oct 1946-1994)
Froth and Bubble
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
Refuse to Quit
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
-Napoleon Hill
Golden thread of life
"A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life."
-Isadora James
Facing and Changing
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-James Baldwin
Profit & Value
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)
Plow Ahead
"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead."
-Les Brown
Reason to achieve
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination + innovation = realization.
-Waitley
Perseverance is an element of Success
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough & loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."
-Longfellow
Realization - Accomplished something
"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
-Henry Fords
Resolve to make it happen
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
-Wayne Dyer
Bigger than Fears
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.
-Terry Litwiller
Make a weeping child laugh
"The mosque is too far from home, so let's do this / Let's make a weeping child laugh."
-Nida Fazli, poet (12 Oct 1938-2016)
About to....
"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."
-Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976)
Language is
"Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire."
-George W. Crane
What is defeat?
"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."
-Wendell Phillips
Can & Can't buy...
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
-George H. Lorimer, editor (6 Oct 1867-1937)
Improvise self
*We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand."
-Woodrow T. Wilson
It is YOU
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
-Les Brown
Where you are...
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."
-Brian Tracy
Pinnacle of Success
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
-Thomas Wolfe, novelist (3 Oct 1900-1938)
Wrestle with the snake
"If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."
-Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
Same one a second time
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
-George Bernard Shaw
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