"Personal Success Quotes"
"Sitting on one's heels, let's one reflect on one's choices in life. To stand up and put some spring in one's own step, is to accept those choices and realize they are better left behind. Spring forward....your life is waiting."
Copyright © 2004 Dave Clark
I have spent so much of my life on my heels. I think I'd like to start walking now.
"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."
Norman Vincent Peale
"The best place to put your troubles is in your back pocket, the one with the hole in it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Eva Giesbrecht --- Alberta, Canada
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
Frank A. Clark
"When people say, "You are finished", it is time for you to stand up and "find" out why "I" failed. "Shred" the failure factor and start a new journey. Failure is confusing. You have the power to turn it inside out and start a new journey."
Copyright © 2004 Babatunde Ayoola Fajimi
"Treat people as partners, treat them with dignity, treat them with respect. Treat people as the primary source of productivity gains."
Tom Peters
"There are so many odds in life, but the key factor which keeps us rolling is Acceptance. Accept everythingwhich tends or happens in your life for your Survival instinct."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ananta Pati --- India
"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."
William Hazlitt
"If you spend all of your time looking back at yesterday, you are destined to trip over tomorrow."
Copyright © 2004 Thomas Maher
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
Leo Rosten
"Failure is just a success that we have not yet attained."
Copyright © 2004 Robert Gibson
"May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion."
Thomas Jefferson
"Dare to make a difference. One is to live, not just survive."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chris Chan --- Auckland, New Zealand
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
William Makepeace Thackeray
If you, your lips
Would save from slips
Five things observe with care
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak
And how and when and where
If you, your ears
Would save from jeers
These things keep mildly hid
Myself and I and mine and my
Or how I do or did
Author Unknown --- Submitted by James Johnston --- Texas
This was handwritten by my father when he was 84 years old and given to me when I was about 20. I committed it to memory and still remember it though I am 78. I don't have any idea where he got it or who the author is. I do think it is something we should all try to live by.
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Instead of waiting and wondering what's gonna happen next, why don't you go there and face it?"
Written in 2004 by Johni Pangalila --- Victoria, Australia
"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is."
Christiaan Barnard