"27 Quotes About Character, Success, and Change "
"People define success in many ways. But real success is the one that gives satisfaction and pleasure when achieved. So it is paramount to ascertain first what success means to you."
Copyright © 2003 Jagannathan Arockiam
"Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive."
Og Mandino
"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
Brian Tracy
"The greatest inventions and accomplishments began as the flicker of an idea. This tiny flame was then fueled by desire and faith. Watch out for those tiny little ideas. You have the potential to turn them into great things!"
Copyright © 2003 Steve Brunkhorst
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves."
Marie Curie
"Success is the marriage of motivation and will."
Author Unknown
"Punctuality is a demonstration of self-discipline."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gerald B., Age 14 --- Washington
"To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against."
Christina Baldwin
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley
"Is this your life? NO! It's mine; so let me make my own decisions for myself. They might not always be right but making my own mistakes is what I learn from."
C.L.L. --- Submitted by Courtney L. --- Florida
This is what we must live by. My parents are really pushing me to do certain things that I don't want to do. If I don't try what I want to do then I'll never know if I could have been good at it. People can help you make your choices by influencing you but you are the one that must make the decisions. This was told to me by a very inspiring P-ville track coach. I just want to tell him thank you so much for being there for my highlights, my griefs, my ups, and downs. You'll never know how much I appreciate you!
"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems."
Stephen Covey
"The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow."
Will Garcia
"A truly successful person understands that prosperity is not defined by riches, but by faith, character, kindness, understanding, patience, and love."
Copyright © 2003 Shivendra Green
"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."
George Washington Carver
"You cannot get ahead while you are getting even."
Dick Armey
"Putting off an easy thing is hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
George H. Lonmer --- Submitted by C.A. Samson
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
Alistair Cooke
"When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are."
R.H. Grant
"Success can be earned only by those who are willing to make great sacrifices, and by those who facechallenges head on. If success were easy, everyone would have it."
Copyright © 2003 Candace Crenshaw - Wood
"Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased."
Ralph C. Smedley
"Listen. Don't explain or justify."
William G. Dyer
"Outer circumstances and events don't create stresses; it is our reaction to them that creates stresses!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saraswathi Sripada --- Andhra Pradesh, India
Hey friends, this is the quote I always follow in my daily life. Whatever may be situations we're facing, our reaction should depend on how we chose to react to that, but not on how the situation really is.
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
John D. Rockefeller
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."
Lowell
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Bertrand Russell
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Phillip Brooks