"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~Goethe
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't! If you want 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 the mind. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger and faster man, But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can. Walter D. Wintle
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
- Napoleon Hill
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein
Failure is rarely fatal.
-Seth Godin
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
-Richard Branson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
I take it to mean that everyone fails and if you let a failure stop you, you'll never succeed. Successful people fail too, but they learn from their failures and move on, until they succeed.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
All-time favorite quote since about 10 years ago. It really isolates out the defining quality of a "great" person: not only have they achieved greatness; they also inspire others to become great.
"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
Michael Gerber
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."
"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."
He might have disproved it as a complete axiom but I see the value of this quote in that things must be conceived and believed before they can be acheived.
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
-John Wooden
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~Goethe
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt