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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make
an unbeatable combination for success.”
“There
are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until
personal experience has brought it home.”
“The
spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that
endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events
that occur.”
“What
is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows
out hard rock. Persevere.”
“In
reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they
won was over themselves . . . Self-discipline with all of them came
first.”
“A man
may learn wisdom even from a foe.”
“To fly
we have to have resistance.”
“Man’s
mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions.”
“The
work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind
forward.”
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental
attitude even than by mental capacities.”
“Any
fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes
a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite
direction.”
“Your
chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of
pleasure you derive from what you do.”
“Our
truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable
when trying something new.”
“He has
not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a
fear.”
“Significant
progress doesn’t come from the formal planning process of an
American corporation. It comes from a couple of guys doing something
that hasn’t been set down on a list.”
“Learn
to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be
dealt with at another time.”
“We
judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge
us by what we have already done.”
“The
further backward you look, the further forward you can see.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts
into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“Age
wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
“Few
men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the
resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength
that are never used.”
“Destiny is no 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.”
“If
someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something
to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be
satisfied.”
“There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life
and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term
comfort.”
“Deal
first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress.
Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up
mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”
“When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it
seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up
then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“If
your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader.”
“To
stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”
“The
CEO’s role in raising a company’s corporate IQ is to establish an
atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.”
“You
don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is
too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
“We
differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but
in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with
which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.”
"All of us perform
better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have
been asked to do."
“If a
nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values
more, it will lose that too.”
“Do not
blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.”
“Genius
is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is
inevitable.”
“The
distance between you and your dreams is often the length of a single
idea.”
“The
supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without
it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it’s on . . . a
football field, in an army or in an office.”
“When
the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of
midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems
endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish – it is then
that you must not hesitate.”
“Life
is something like this trumpet. If you don’t put anything in it, you
don’t get anything out.”
“All
growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act
without benefit of experience.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired and success achieved.”
“The
best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
“Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone,
don’t keep it a secret.”
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable
combination for success.”
"What comes out of
your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind."
“Reading
furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking
that makes what we read ours.”
“To
achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite
enough time.”
“The
one thing that matters is the effort.”
“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains
you use, the less material you need.”
“It
matters not what a person is born, but (whom) they choose to be.”
“He
that can have patience can have what he will.”
"Motivation gets
you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you
will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip."
“A man,
as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man
is what he makes of himself.”
“The
ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar
or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other
under the sun.”
“A
human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a
cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.”
“You’ve
got to say, ‘I think if I keep working at this and want it badly
enough, I can have it.’”
"It's not enough
that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required"
“Accept
complete responsibility both for understanding and for being
understood.”
“I try
to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little
things, but usually they make the difference between winning and
losing.”
“Little
minds . . . are subdued by misfortune . . . Great minds rise above
them.”
"Ability can take
you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
“To
reach (our goal), we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes
against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor.”
“I
didn’t get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it.
I got there by doing it.”
“I know
of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man
to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“Energy
and persistence conquer all things.”
“All
rising to a great place is by a winding stair.”
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes
nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall
into someone else’s plan. And guess what they might have planned for
you? Not much.”
“The glad hand is all right in sunshine, but it’s the helping hand
on a dark day that folks remember to the end of time.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation . .
. even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Ambition is the
path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
"Obstacles are the
things we see when we take our eyes off our goals."
“It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit that we bring to the
fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.”
“The world is full of unsuccessful men of talent.”
“Your ability to set and achieve goals will
determine your success and happiness more than any other skill you
can ever learn.”
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