A person
who is successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that unsuccessful
people will not do.
A winner
is one who accepts his failures and mistakes, picks up the pieces, and continues
striving to reach his goals.
An individual
must be big enough to admit mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and
strong enough to correct them.
Big goals
can create a fear of failure. Lack of goals guarantees it.
Circumstances
don't change us. The way we handle circumstances changes us.
Don't
confuse mere inconveniences with real problems.
Failure
is a temporary experience on the way to success. It is part of the learning
process.
Failure
is an opportunity to begin again with insight.
Fear
is False Evidence Appearing Real.
If you
are not hurting, you are not going to grow.
You only
hurt when you know you are capable of having something you don't yet have.
Most
people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people
who simply won't allow themselves to quit.
My great
concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your
failure. (Abraham Lincoln)
Never
be too proud to admit your failure nor too humble to admit your success.
Never
discuss a problem with someone incapable of solving it.
One of
the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes
an emergency.
Show
me a thoroughly satisfied individual, and I will show you a failure.
Some
people focus on what they are going through; champions focus on what they
are going to.
Success
seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Take
a tragedy and make a cause out of it. A cause will unite people.
The ache
of unfulfilled dreams is the greatest pain of all.
The average
person lets circumstances control his life. Winners make a decision, then
do everything within their power to make it happen.
The greatest
ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.
There
are two quick paths to failure: take nobody's counsel and take everybody's
counsel.
There
is no security on this earth, only opportunity.
Things
turn out for the best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
What
happens to you is not nearly as important as how you handle it.
When
you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to
eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Worry
is fear in advance for something that may never happen.
You must
have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-term failures.
Your
rewards in life are determined by the problems you solve for others.
A consistent
man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. (Benjamin Disraeli)
A great
pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Gagehot)
A healthy
attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
A life
spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw)
A man
is rich according to what he is and not what he has.
A man
without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. (Thomas Carlyle)
A new
attitude invariably creates a new result.
A pessimist
is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one
who make opportunities of his difficulties. (Harry S. Truman)
Ability
will enable a man to get to the top, but it takes character to keep him there.
All growth
depends upon activity.
.....all
things are possible with God (Mark 10:27)
There
is no development... without effort... Work is... the only means to results...
(Calvin Coolidge)
Always
do more than is required of you. (George Patton)
Always
do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. (Og Mandino)
Any failure
will tell you success is nothing but luck.
At some
point, at some time in your life, you will get tired of losing. It is then,
and ONLY then, you will start winning.
Attitude
-- not aptitude -- determines your altitude.
Behavior
is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is. (F.D.
Huntington)
Behold
the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James
B. Conant)
Reputation
is what others think we are, character is who we are.
Cherish
your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue
prints of your ultimate achievements. (Napoleon Hill)
Choice,
not chance, determines destiny.
Commit
to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3)
Complacency
is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight. (Jack Nicklaus)
Courage
is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)
Creating
money is just like creating anything else in your life. It involves not being
attached to it, and not giving it power over your life in any way. (Dr.
Wayne W. Dyer)
Decide
to forgive those who have hurt you. Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a
decision. (Randall D. Worley)
Do everything
with passion. (Todd Kingsly)
Do not
pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
(Phillips Brooks)
Don't
be afraid to go out on a limb -- that's where the fruit is.
Don't
let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)
Don't
let yourself be paralyzed by fear, which prevents so many people from living
out their dreams. (Mark Fisher)
Dream
no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe)
Even
if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will
Rogers)
Every
choice you make, whether it's good or bad, has consequences. (Zig Ziglar)
Every
day we end without learning something is a day lost.
Everyone
you meet knows something you don't know. Be willing to learn from them.
Excellence
means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. (Ortega
Y. Gasset)
Experience
is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson
afterward.
Face
your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you. (Helen
Keller)
Failure
is the path of least persistence.
Gather
in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, and
focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
(John Haggai)
Genius
is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas
Edison)
Go as
far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see
farther. (Zig Ziglar)
Goals
are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill. (Zig Ziglar)
God will
not do for you things you can do for yourself. (Randall D. Worley)
Good
luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Grant
me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the
things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. (St. Francis of Assisi)
Growth
means change and change involves risks, stepping from the known to the unknown.
(George Shinn)
Happiness
is not an absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them.
Happiness
lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin
Roosevelt)
He who
works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will
have his fill of poverty. (Proverbs 28:19)
He who
does not hope to win has already lost. (Jose Joaquin Olmedo)
He who
learns and learns but acts not what he knows, is like one who plows and plows,
but never, never sows.
He who
would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must
sacrifice much... (James Allen)
Hold
yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
(Henry Ward Beecher)
The fear
of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
(Proverbs 1:7)
I do
the very best I know how -- the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing
so until the end. (Abraham Lincoln)
I expect
to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can
show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for
I shall not pass this way again. (William Penn)
I feel
the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure.
You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it. (Reggie Jackson)
I know
of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human
race. (Voltaire)
I want
you to start a crusade in your life -- to dare to be your best. (William
Danforth)
I will
prepare, and some day my chance will come. (Abraham Lincoln)
I'm a
great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
(Thomas Jefferson)
I've
never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is
only a temporary situation. (Mike Todd)
Ideas
are funny little things. They don't work unless you do.
If not
you, then who? If not now, then when? (Hillel)
If someone
doesn't want to take advantage of an opportunity to advance and achieve....nothing
will stop them.
If we
all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
(Thomas E. Edison)
If we
do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. (Henry Kissinger)
If you
are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself
but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any
moment. (Marcus Aurelius)
If you
could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. (David
Viscott)
If you
do not believe in yourself, very few other people will. If you don't have
something to overcome, you'll be overcome by complacency. (Randall D. Worley)
If you
don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? (Basil
S. Walsh)
If you
don't run your own life, somebody else will. (John Atkinson)
If you
have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping
them to become better than they are. (John W. Gardner)
If you
learn from a defeat, you haven't really lost.
If you
put your mind to it, you can do anything you want. (Michael Jordan)
If you
see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually
hard up, that is exactly what you will be. (Robert Collier)
If you
wait for perfect conditions you will never get anything done. (Mike Seseed)
If your
life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
Ignore
people who say it can't be done. (Elaine Rideout)
Imagination
is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
Imagination
turns possibilities into reality.
In all
relationships of life, faith is worthless unless it leads to action.
In matters
of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
(Thomas Jefferson)
In order
to be a realist you must believe in miracles. (David Ben-Gurion)
In order
to win, you must expect to win. (Dan Fouts)
In the
game of life even the 50-yard line seats don't interest me. I came to play!
Be a participant, not a spectator.
In the
long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore... they had better aim
at something high. (Henry David Throreau)
In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)
In your
hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness.
Information
+ Application = Transformation (Mark Sanborn)
It is
only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. (Harvey S. Firestone)
It's
a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you
very often get it. (Somerset Maugham)
It's
always been 10 percent talent and 90 percent hard work. (Paul Newman)
It's
better to be a has been, than a never was. (Mark Sanborn)
It's
difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to
try.
It's
not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. (Roy Disney)
Knowing
is not enough, we must apply. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Laziness
may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. (Anne Frank)
The sluggard
craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
(Proverbs 13:4)
Let our
advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. (Winston Churchill)
Life
gives nothing to men without labor. (Horace)
Life
gives nothing to men without labor.
Little
minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
(Washington Irving)
Little
minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
Little
things affect little minds. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Live
this day as if it will be your last. (Og Mandino)
Logic
will not change an emotion, but action will. (Zig Ziglar)
Luck
is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Elmer Letterman)
Make
it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Let
superiority be your trademark... (Orison Swett Marden)
Make
sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
(Jerry Gillies)
Man is
born to live and not to prepare to live. (Boris Pasternak)
Man maintains
his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward...
(Maxwell Maltz)
Man was
created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching
one goal sets a higher one. (Ralph Ransom)
Man's
mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Many
of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up.
Men are
not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Franklin
D. Roosevelt)
Men don't
plan to fail, they fail to plan. (William Siegel)
Most
people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people
who simply don't know how to quit. (Robert Schuller)
Motivation
will almost always beat mere talent. (Norman Augustine)
No decision
is difficult to make if you get all of the facts. (George S. Patton)
No one
can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
No one
ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. (Charles
Kendall Adams)
No rules
for success will work if you don't.
Nothing
attempted, nothing gained.
Nothing
gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and
unruffled under all circumstances. (Thomas Jefferson)
Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing
happens unless first a dream. (Carl Sandburg)
Nothing
in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)
Nothing
in the world can take the place of persistence. (Calvin Coolidge)
Nothing
splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something
inside of them was superior to circumstance. (Bruce Barton)
Now faith
is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews
11:1)
Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
One man
with courage is a majority. (Andrew Jackson)
One of
the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. (Henry Ford)
Opportunity
rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently
wish to enter. (B. C. Forbes)
Opportunity,
often comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. (Napoleon Hill)
Our greatest
glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Confucius)
Our greatest
weakness lies in giving up.
The most
certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time. (Thomas Edison)
Paralyze
resistance with persistence. (Woody Hayes)
Part
of betting on yourself is decreasing your association with losers and increasing
your association with winners. (Dr. Robert Anthony)
People
are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be...
whether they'll admit that or not. (Earl Nightingale)
People
differ not only in their ability to do but also in their "will to do."
(Paul Hersey)
People
who expect the worst are seldom disappointed. (Dr. Robert Anthony)
Personal
relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success,
all achievement in real life grows. (Ben Stein)
Playing
safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still.
You must go forward... (Robert Collier)
Positive
thinking is reacting positively to a negative situation. (Bill Havens)
Potential
is: dormant ability, unused success and capped capability. (Randall D.
Worley)
Practice
positive discontent. Be proud of what you've accomplished, but never be content
with it. (Mark Sanborn)
Pride
is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from
mediocrity.
Problems
are guideposts, not stop signs. (Robert Schuller)
Problems
are opportunities in work clothes. (Henry Kaiser)
Progress
always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
(Frederick Wilcox)
Relentless,
repetitive self talk is what changes our self image. (Denis E. Waitley)
Remember,
a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim up stream.
(W.C. Fields)
Remember,
happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely
upon what you think. (Dale Carnegie)
Remember:
the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Review
your priorities, ask the question: What's the best use of my time right now?
(Alan Lakein)
See the
things you want as already yours... think of them as yours, as belonging to
you, as already in your possession. (Robert Collier)
Some
men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
Some
men see things as they are, and say, "Why?" I dream of things that
never were, and say "Why not?" (Robert F. Kennedy)
Some
people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
Sooner
or later, those who win are those who think they can. (Richard Bach)
Sow an
act... reap a habit; sow a habit... reap a character; sow a character... reap
a destiny. (George Dana Boardman)
Success
doesn't come to you... you go to it. (Marva Collins)
Success
is a journey, not a destination. (Ben Sweetland)
Success
is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
(Joyce Brothers, Ph.D.)
Success
is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.
Success
is determined by taking the hand you were dealt and utilizing it to the very
best of your ability. (Ty Boyd)
Success
is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Where
there is no vision, the people perish...... (Proverbs 29:18)
Within
every adversity are the seeds of an equal or greater benefit.
Dexter
Yager is one of the most successful men in this country - in business, personal
relationships, as a leader, and as a Christian example. Most of the quotes
you will read are original, some are from other successful people, put in
his own words.
More Thoughts
On Success...........
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