Something else
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
-Eric Sevareid
Burning desire...
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
-Wilfred A. Peterson
Instantly fill
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
- Dee Hack
Deciding quickly...
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
~ John G. Pollard
How you take it...
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end.
So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
-Charles de Lint, writer (b. 22 Dec 1951)
Realizable Wish
Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish.
-Norman Vincent Peale
...on purpose
Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
-G.K. Nielson
Most of yourself
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
-Earl Nightingale
Act & React
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
-Henry Miller
Pride in work
"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."
- Hosea Ballou
- Hosea Ballou
Different ways
Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways.
-Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster and theologian (20 Dec 1838-1926)
For the rest of the world
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
-Don Marquis
Gain the habit
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
-Og Mandino
Experience of life
We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight.
-Juvenal, poet (c. 60-140)
Chief Defect
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
Sad words
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."
-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (17 Dec 1807-1892)
Got to get up
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at making your dreams come true.
-Poh Yu Khing
It doesn't matter...
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
-Charles F. Kettering
Ahead of yourself
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
-Stewart B. Johnson
Important key...
"One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
~ Arthur Ashe
Ready hour to sow
Who waits until the wind shall keep silent
Will never find the ready hour to sow.
-Helen Hunt Jackson
Will never find the ready hour to sow.
-Helen Hunt Jackson
Tolerance and Acceptance
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
-Reggie Jackson
Should try to learn
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (8 Dec 1894-1961)
Risk of postponement
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
-Harry A. Hopf
Success thro' introspection
Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
-Soichiro Honda
what's most important
"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
Labeled...
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
-Rex Stout, novelist (1886-1975)
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