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June 12, 2014 by kevinstilley

Accomplishment / Achievement – select quotes

accomplishment.001Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
~ Leonard Bernstein

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
~ Nathaniel Branden

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
~ Les Brown

Your enthusiasm will inspire others to move forward with actions that bring rewarding achievements.
~ Steve Brunkhorst

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~ Nicholas M. Butler

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~ Dale Carnegie

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~ Frederic Chopin

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.
~ Luc de Clapiers

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~ Henry Drummond

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
~ Albert Einstein

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
~ Max Ehrmann

Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you think you’re tops, you won’t do much climbing.
~ Arnold Glasow

Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage and the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A fellow doesn’t last long on what he has done. He’s got to keep on delivering as he goes along.
~ Carl Hubbell

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~ Robert F. Kennedy

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve…and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
~ Robert H. Lauer

That some achieve great success, is proof others can achieve it as well.
~ Abraham Lincoln

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
~ Maxwell Maltz

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
~ Orison Swett Marden

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
~ Michaelangelo

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
~ Ovid

Who works achieves and who sows reaps.
~ Arabian Proverb

The man who removed the mountain began by carrying away small stones.
~ Chinese proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.
~ German Proverb

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
~ Robert H. Schuller

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
~ Willam F. Scolavino

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
~ Seneca

How my achievements mock me!
~ Troilus, in William Shakespeare’s play Troilus and Cressida, Act 4, Scene II

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.
~ Robin Sharma

Don’t confuse honors with achievement.
~ Zadie Smith

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
~ W. Clement Stone

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
~ Harold Taylor

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Henry David Thoreau

It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
~ Harry S. Truman

In every triumph there’s a lot of try.
~ Frank Tyger

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worth of your own approval.
~ Denis Waitley

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
~ Booker T. Washington

Never mistake activity for achievement.
~ John Wooden

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September 24, 2013 by kevinstilley

Potential – select quotes

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~ Richard Byrd

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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October 23, 2012 by kevinstilley

Success – select quotes

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And the good fairy said, I won’t leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
~ Louisa May Alcott, from a short story read by Jo in Little Women

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
~ Henri Frédéric Amiel

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
~ Bruce Barton

Success comes from taking the hand you were dealt and using it to the very best of your ability.
~ Ty Boyd

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
~ Phillips Brooks

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
~ Joyce Brothers

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
~ Edward Butler

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
~ Eddie Cantor

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
~ Andrew Carnegie

Success is never final; failure is never fatal.
~ Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
~ Bob Dylan

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
~ William Faulkner

Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don’t worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
~ Sherman Finesilver

Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
~ Gustave Flaubert

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.
~ W. S. Gilbert

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
~ Vince Gill

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~ Jean Giraudoux

Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage and the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.
~ Howard Hendricks

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~ Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
~ Thomas Jefferson

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is — and rise above it.
~ Michael Korda

To succeed is nothing, it is an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different, it is character.
~ Marie Leneru

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~ Bill Lyon

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
~ Og Mandino

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
~ David McCullough

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
~ Willie Nelson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
~ Earl Nightingale

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
~ Florence Nightingale

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but won’t taste good.
~ Joe Paterno

Who begins too much accomplishes little.
~ German Proverb

Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.
~ Old Japanese Proverb

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
~ Anna Quindlen

Success is the study of the Obvious.Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
~ Jim Rohn

As individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live. Our own success, to be real, must contribute to the success of others.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The barrier (to) success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.
~ Laurence Shames

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.
~ Swami Sivananda

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, “There is a way for me and, by jingo, I’ll find it.
~ Clifford Sloan

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
~ Bessie A. Stanley

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
~ Dick Van Dyke

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
~ Booker T. Washington

If you want to double your success rate, double your failure rate.
~ Thomas Watson

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
~ Thomas J. Watson

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
~ Tennessee Williams

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
~ Jonathan Winters

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If you think you are beaten, you are:
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If, you like to win but think you can’t
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost:
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will:
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are:
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
~ Anonymous

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October 23, 2012 by kevinstilley

Failure – select quotes

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
~ James Allen

Success is never final; failure is never fatal.
~ Winston Churchill

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
~ John Wooden

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June 13, 2011 by kevinstilley

Dale Carnegie – select quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.

Believe you will be successful and you will.

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May 15, 2011 by kevinstilley

Perseverence / Persistence / Determination – select quotes

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The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
~ Mary Kay Ash

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~ John Burroughs

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie

A champion is one who gets up even when he can’t.
~ Jack Dempsey

The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.
~ Walt Disney

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

We will either find a way or make one.
~ Hannibal

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~ Herbert Kaufman

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
~ Paul J. Meyer

Trying times are not the times to stop trying.
~ Ray Owen

I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
~ J.C. Penney

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
~ Norwegian Proverb

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
~ Babe Ruth

Perseverance is more efficacious than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they stand together, yield themselves us when taken little by little.
~ Sertorius, in Plutarch’s Lives

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from Salt-Cellars

Anyone can CARRY HIS BURDEN
however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone, can DO HIS WORK,
however hard, one day.
Anyone can live SWEETLY, PATIENTLY, LOVINGLY,
until the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really is.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
— Lee Trevino

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
~ Denis Waitley

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff

Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
~ Zig Ziglar

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
~ Bible, Hebrews 10:36

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Goals – select quotes

The most important thing about goals is… having one.
~ Geoffry F. Abert

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
~ Bo Bennet

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~ E. Joseph Cossman

Your goal should be out of reach, but not out of sight.
~ Anita DeFrantz

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
~ Napolean Hill

Every an has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. . . . Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
~ Theodore Parker, in A Lesson for the Day

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
~ J.C. Penney

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
~ Cavett Robert

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February 9, 2011 by kevinstilley

Growth – select quotes

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
~ Gail Sheehy

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October 23, 2010 by kevinstilley

Motivation – select quotes

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
~ Andrew Carnegie

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
~ Lee Iacocca

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
~ Rick Tate

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing that’s why we recommend it daily.
~ Zig Ziglar

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November 13, 2009 by kevinstilley

Warren Buffett – select quotes

I am really no different from any of you. I may have more money than you do, but money doesn’t make the difference. Sure, I can buy the most luxurious handmade suit, but I put it on and it just looks cheap. I would rather have a cheeseburger from Dairy Queen than a hundred-dollar meal. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you want to learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.
~ Warren Buffett addressing students at the University of Nebraska, as quoted in Now, Discover Your Strengths.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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