"How To Be Successful Quotes"
"You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute."
Dag Hammarskjold
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
Jonathan Winters
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
Ken Keys, Jr. --- Submitted by Bernadette Ballezza --- New York
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
Leo Buscaglia --- Submitted by Casey E. Faucon --- Louisiana
"To fail is a natural consequence of trying. To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
David Viscott
"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson
"We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one." The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The grandfather answered, "The one I feed."
Blackhawk --- Red Indian Story --- Submitted by Rob Poore --- Australia
"The Key to immortality is to live a life worth remembering."
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) --- Submitted by Matthew Sombito --- Missouri
"You can't build a great company without great people. But how do you know them when you see them? Over the past few years, a number of companies in a wide range of industries - from airlines to steel, computers to hotels - have asked themselves what separates their winners from their losers, good hires from bad, and they all arrived at the same answer: what people know is less important than who they are. Hiring, they believe, is not about finding people with the right experience; it's about finding people with the right mind-set. These companies hire for attitude and train for skill."
Peter Carbonara - Fast Company
"Fantastic achievement can be pursued by collaboration with truly good friends."
Copyright © 2002 Hendry Izaac Elim
"Don't always follow the crowd, because nobody goes there anymore."
Yogi Berra
"To rule over oneself is the first condition for one who would rule over others."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Our lives improve only when we take chances --- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson
"If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are."
George C. Hubbs
"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
Denis Waitley
"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
Danny Thomas
"To fly, we have to have resistance."
Maya Lin
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Be careful that the toes you step on today are not connected to the butt you must kiss tomorrow."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Keith Aitken --- Pennsylvania
This is a quote I heard on how to avoid " office politics"
"One man with courage is a majority."
Andrew Jackson
"He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm."
Goethe
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
Winston Churchill