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Success Quotes from Made For Success
Money will buy me a house, but not a home, a bed, but
not a good night's sleep. Talent develops itself in solitude, character
in life's stream . Earn all that
you can, save all that you can, and give all that you can. The true measure of a man's wealth is in the things he
can afford not to buy. Where there is
no vision, the people perish. 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. Don't mistake your career for your life. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is to try to please everyone."
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil,
ignorance.
Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement
is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad
judgement. A little
security is sometimes worse than no security at all.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as
unkind as if he had refused it. "Be wiser than other people if you can,
but do not tell them." There are two times in a man's life when he should not
speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is
also the foundation of courage and of true
progress." Even if you're on the right
track, you won't get anywhere if you're standing still. "Never bear more than one trouble at a time.
Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now,
and all they expect to have." "Life is formed from the inside out. What I am
inside determines the issues in the battle of life."
"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who
cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing
else." "What worries you, masters
you."
You can observe a lot just by watching. Your attitude determines your
altitude. "Without Adversity, without change, life is
boring. The paradox of comfort is that we stop trying."
Every crowd has a silver lining. When better is possible, then good is not enough. "The road to happiness lies in two simple
principles: find what interests you and that you can do
well, and put your whole soulinto it - every bit of energy and ambition and
natural abilityyou have." The only place where your dream becomes impossible is
in your own thinking. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to
be understood.
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity
is often how an individual views a mistake." "When life knocks you down, try to land on your
back. Because
if you can look up, you can get up.
Let your reason get you back up." "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve
outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men
succeed because they are determined to. "There is no road too long to the man who advances
deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too
distant to the man who prepares himself for them with
patience." "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look
back and
realize they were the big things." "There are no great people in this world, only
great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. "It sometimes seems that intense desire creates
not only its own opportunities, but its own
talents." "It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich
according to what he is, not according to what he has." "There are only two options regarding commitment;
you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life
in-between." "Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us
down or polishes us up depends on us. "
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your
actions. All life is an experiment."
"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." Robert H. Schuller "Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the
time when preparation and opportunity meet." "When one door closes, another opens. But we often
look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one
that has opened for us." Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives.
Too many people are having a "near-life
experience."
"Some men see things as they are and ask
"why?" I dare to dream of
things
that never were and ask, "Why Not?" "When you get right down to the root of the
meaning of the word "succeed"; you find that it simply
means to follow through." "Conditions are never just right. People who delay
action until all factors are favorable do
nothing."
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena; whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood; who strivesvaliantly; who errs and comes short again and
again; who knowsthe great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himselfin a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumphof high achievement;
and who at the worst, if he fails, at leastfails while daring
greatly." "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins... not through strength, but through persistence." "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache
carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision
for the future. "Our economy is based upon people wanting more;
their happiness on wanting less." "Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very
excellent servant, but a terrible master." "If you
are not generous with a meager income, you will never begenerous with abundance." "No
person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been thereward for what he gave." "The person interested in success has to learn to
view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of
the process of getting to thetop. "The difference between greatness and mediocrity
is often how an individual views a mistake." "I've
found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take
more chances. Be more active. Show up more often." "You miss 100% of the shots you don't
take." "How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because
someday in life you will have been all of these." "I think luck is the sense to recognize an
opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it." "Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret of success." "All difficult things have their origin in that
which is easy, and great things in that which is
small." I never see failure as failure, but only as a
learning experience.
"Money will buy me a house, but not a home, a bed,
but not a good night's sleep."
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what
seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you
that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones
tend to take care of themselves." "Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and,
when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the
other side." "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to makeit burn as brightly as possible before handing it on tofuture generations." "Life is a succession of lessons which must be
lived to be understood." "Be such a man, and live such a life, that if
every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this
earth would be God's Paradise." "Helen Keller was once asked if there was anything worse than losing one's sight. She responded, "Yes, losing one's vision."." "If you want to succeed, you must make your own
opportunities as you go." "This nation was built by men who took risks;
pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness,
business men who were notafraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the
truth,thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who werenot afraid of action."
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is
in your own thinking. The Level of our success is limited only by our imagination. "No act of kindness, however small, is ever
wasted." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit."
"The conquering of fear is the beginning of
wisdom." Can't Died in the Battle of Try
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache
carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." If you don't think everyday is a good one, just try
missing one. It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not
dream.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,
you have to find the courage to live it. Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid
changing it. There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there
is the risk you cannot afford not to take. A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for
what they can become and to release their energies so they will try
to get there. Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks
of changing himself. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there
are many more hills to climb. This age will die not as a result of some evil, but
from a lack of passion. The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of
another. "All the flowers of all of the tomorrows are in
the seeds of today." "If you
want to succeed in your Life, remember this phrase:The Past does not equal The Future.Because you failed
yesterday; or all day today;or a moment ago; or for the last six months;the last 16 years; or
the last fifty years of Life,doesn't mean anything...All that matters is:What are you going to
do, RIGHT NOW!!?" Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
Leadership determines the direction of the company. Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead
center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up
golf and too old to rush up to the net. Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our
accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we
look ahead to the time we have left to us....Our children are
gaining life, and our parents are losing it. In all the world there are no people so piteous and
forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of
dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of
another man's house. If you rest, you
rust. I promise to keep on living as though I expected to
live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle
the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. And so came middle-age, for I have discovered that
middle-age is not a question of years. It is that moment in life
when one realizes that one has exchanged, by a series of subtle
shifts and substitutes, the vague and vaporous dreams of youth for
the definite and tangible realization. In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a
point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to
reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves. And in the
end, most of us reconcile ourselves, with what grace we can, to
living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of partial failure,
our less-than-ideal families; and even our politicians! The first half of life consists of the capacity to
enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance
without the capacity. A man is not old until regrets take the place of
dreams. We have something special...a culture which we do not
think of as something for the elite, but as something which is
accessible to practically everybody. Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling
the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job;
the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River
developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest
battleship. Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have
the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the
same noises. Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the
way I know I am an American....America is the only idealist nation
in the world. In every child who is born, under no matter what
circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of
the human race is born again. Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance
of alternatives. When you're young, the silliest notions seem the
greatest achievements. I had lost something in youth and made money
instead. At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks
friendly. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and
therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation
after generation. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,
he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world
we live in. Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily
discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and
optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that
always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on
the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh
outlook of the young. Adults are obsolete children and the hell with them. If I can leave a single message with the younger
generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you
must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference. Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will
remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. "You can have everything you want if you help
others get what they want" "You got to do before you can be, you got to be
before you can have."Zig Ziglar. "If people like your treatment, they tell a
neighbor. If not, they tell a neighborhood." "Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life." "If you don't have a dream, how are you going to
make a dream come true?" "The past does not equal the future"
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can COLOR any
situation!" Enough research will tend to support your theory.
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