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Nothing
in this world can take the place of persistence. Success
favors the prepared mind In any moment
of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best
thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing. The significant
problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were
at when we created them. Most of us are
about as happy as we make our minds up to be. Some
men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, As
you ramble through life, brother, no matter what your goal, keep your
eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole Whether
you think you can or The mark of a true
professional is giving more than you get. Small opportunities
are often the beginning of great enterprises. Luck is the residue
of design. Patting yourself
on the back We
are what we repeatedly do. Do
not let what you cannot do No
one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Discipline
is remembering what you want.
You and I are essentially
infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Flaming
enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success. --Dale Carnegie I don't
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world Winning
is not everything, but the effort to win is.
--Zig Ziglar Don't
just learn the tricks of the trade. I am
a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more
I have of it. Never
discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. There's
only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's
your own self. To
exist is to change; to change is to mature, to mature is to create oneself
endlessly. In
three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
If
you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. The
facts are always less than what really happened. The
political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food
for laughter, they are an entire banquet. Ninety-nine
percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
The
best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend. I cannot
think of many occasions when a smile is out of place. Good
management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior
people. Regardless
of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you
are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a
mental edge that results in victory. There
is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company,
from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. A wise
man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience,
and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. Mankind
must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. Every
vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and
reflect. It
is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is
the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. I'm
always busy, but always doing things I enjoy. I rarely occupy myself with
things that bug me. I'm very fortunate in that not many of us are allowed
to move around for kicks and get paid for it. We
must become the change we want to see. Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other one thing. Fortune
favors the bold. Destiny
is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing
to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. We
have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Success
can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it
can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities and let the nice things
come out. One
machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man. Resolve
not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy
to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues
impracticable, and others extremely difficult. If
everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. 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 which has opened for us.
To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole
philosophy of practical life. This
is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life,
and the decidion is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up
our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. The
day will happen whether or not you get up. |
When
you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you until it seems
as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for
that is just the place and time when the tide will turn. People
who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" If
I feel depressed I will sing. I would
never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity.
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. --Thomas Edison You
can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other
people Great
achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, No wind favors he who has no destined port. --Montaigne
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. --John D. Rockefeller The
biggest mistake people make in life Fortune
sides with s/he who dares. Opportunity's
favorite disguise is trouble.
--Frank Tyge You
can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
--Henry Ford Far
better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, You
must have long term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. --Charles C. Noble A smooth sea never
made a skilled mariner. There is no failure
except in no longer trying. To finish first,
you must first finish. Build a dream and
the dream will build you. Winners have simply
formed the habit Inches
make champions. I could
use a hundred people There are two freedoms
-- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where
he is free to do what he ought. Not everything that
can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Greatness is not
measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition
he or she has overcome to reach his goals. To avoid criticism
do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Strong reasons make
strong actions. I can't imagine
a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything
he's got. Walter Cronkite Yes, risk taking
is inherently failure prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing
taking. The pessimist sees
difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty. Throughout the ages,
man has persisted largely on thoughts and promises. But to prosper in
the future, one cannot ignore, but must in fact embrace, the inner sanctions
of freedom, self-worth and tolerance for others. Sometimes our light
goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another
human being. Each of us owes the deepest of thanks to those who have
rekindled this inner light. I have always wanted
to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Progress lies not
in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Our plans miscarry
because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is
making for, no wind is the right wind. A wise man will
make more opportunities than he finds. It's not the hours
you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in your hours.
Life be not so short
but that there is always time for courtesy. The world cares
very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman
is able to do. What
the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. We
are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. The
greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer
aspects of their lives. The
first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things
in the face and know them for what they are. There
is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can. When
you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts,
you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances
merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.
Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment
of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll
be delighted to find them disappearing quickly. Don't
go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.
It was here first. The
common denominator of success --- the secret of success of every man who
has ever been successful --- lies in the fact that he formed the habit
of doing things that failures don't like to do. The
only disability in life is a bad attitude. It
is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in
doing what is necessary. Even
if you are on the right rack, you'll get run over if you just sit there. All
the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have
strengthened me.You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in
the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you What
you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. Take
calculated risks. That's quite different from being rash. You don't have
to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be
just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
God
gives you a job. Nothing
you can't spell will ever work. |
You
have to think anyway, so why not think big? America
is too great for small dreams. We
are all faced with a series of great opportunities
The great question is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with failure. --William Shakespeare
The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
--Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM Caring
is a valuable business advantage. Most
of my advances were by mistake.
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
--Wayne Gretzky, Pro Hockey Player A
year from now you will wish you had started today. There
has never been another you. Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
"If
we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally
we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY." -- Cavett Robert 1908-1997 Everything
which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. We become what we
think about. I'd rather attempt
to do something great and fail The
best way out is always through. Spectacular achievement
is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
MURPHY'S
LAWS OF COMBAT How
wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting
to improve the world. Never
for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. The
tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies
in having no goal to reach. Alone
we can do so little, together we can do so much. Who
you are speaks so loudly, I can hardly hear what you are saying. No
one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid
beliefs about what tomorrow will contain. Be
glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to
play and to look up at the stars. Victory
belongs to the most persevering. You
can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. When
you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you
find that it simply means to follow through. Renewal
is the principle and the process that empowers us to move on an upward
spiral of growth and change, of continuous improvement. The
greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind. Few
will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work
to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts
will be written the history of this generation. Talking
to customers tends to counteract the most self-destructive habit of great
corporations, that of talking to themselves. Without
courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. Perhaps
once in a hundred years a person may be ruined by excessive praise, but
surely once every minute someone dies inside for lack of it. Quality
is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere
effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the
wise choice of many alternatives. Live
neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb
your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. Our
imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The
way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest
bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together,
the club won't be worth a dime. Anyone
who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Life
is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as
it is, is the only way of being happy. Indecision
is the seedling of fear. Most
of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. Effort
only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. The
sun's always shining, even when you can't see it. Change
your thoughts, and you change your world. At times our own
light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each
of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted
the flame within us. To accuse others
for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself
shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor
others shows that one's education is complete. In order to succeed,
you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing and believe
in what you are doing. Be who you are and
say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who
matter don't mind. Before everything
else, getting ready is the secret of success. Optimism is the
faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence. Without justice,
courage is weak. Many of life's failures are
people who did not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up.
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