January 2010
47 posts
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -Mignon McLaughlin
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” -Helen Keller
Develop That Latent Force In You
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
-John Heywood
Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. -Robert Updegraff
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Opportunities: An Adventure in Disaster
How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that’s wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it’s a disaster, you’ve tried, you’ve learned something, you’ve had an adventure. And that doesn’t mean you can’t do it again.
-Edward McCabe
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -William Boetcker
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. -Benjamin Franklin
New post: Thought Quotes http://bit.ly/bHXuU5
You Might Be On The Line Of Success And Not Know...
The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
-Elbert Hubbard
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. -William Saroyan
The Highway to Success
Failure…is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
-John Keats
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -G.B. Shaw
“A stumble may prevent a fall.” -Thomas Fuller
Expect Victory
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both...
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel Reardon
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. -Saint Bartholomew
Success On Your Own Terms
All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.
-Harrison Ford
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -George Bernard Shaw
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. -Emerson
One Determined Person
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
-Sonia Johnson
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. -James Baldwin
Habitually Direct Your Powers
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. -Joanna Field
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A Dynamic Conquering Spirit
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done.
-Arland Gilbert
A Road Built In Hope Is More Pleasant
It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
-Marion Zimmer Bradley
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. -Thomas Fuller
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -Charles Colton
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. -Samuel Johnson
New post: Upward Reaching http://bit.ly/7aX3j6
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin
New post: The Boss Or The Leader? http://bit.ly/5wEPGr
The Passionate Enthusiast
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won’t in the end affirm or deny anything.
-Thomas Carlyle
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, & with it none despised. -Christian Bovee
“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. -Lorraine Hansbury #quotes
New post: Random Success Thoughts http://bit.ly/6OFCVN
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -Sir Isaac Newton #quotes
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New post: Imagination And Enthusiasm http://bit.ly/73ZPej
New post: It’s All In A State of Mind http://bit.ly/5xOTp3
The Success Family
The Success Family
The Father of Success is Work.
The Mother of Success is Ambition.
The Oldest Son is Common Sense.
Some of the other brothers are:
Perseverance, Honesty, Thoroughness,
Foresight, Enthusiasm, Cooperation.
The Oldest Daughter is Character.
Some of the other sisters are:
Cheerfulness, Loyalty, Courtesy, Care,
Economy, Sincerity, Harmony.
The Baby is Opportunity.
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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin