Quotations to Live By

"Our power is in our ability to decide."
-- Buckminster Fuller

 "A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy."
-- Robert J. Lumsden

"The people that get on in this world are the people that get up and look for the circumstances that they want; and if they can't find them, they make them."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

-- Mickey Rooney

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

-- Beverly Sills

"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be. What is once well done, is well done forever."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?""

-- George Bernard Shaw

"In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."

-- Albert Einstein

"The formula for peace of mind is simple: Don't worry about anything -- pray about everything."

-- Author Unknown

 

"Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude."

-- W. Clement Stone

 

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."
-- Harvey MacKay

"Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?"

-- Napoleon Hill

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

-- Ronald E. Osborn

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."

-- Mary Pickford

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

-- T.S. Eliot

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

-- Bertrand Russell

"The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry, live simply, expect little, give much."

-- Barney O'Lavin

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

-- Henry Ford

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

-- Malcolm Forbes
 

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

-- Dale Carnegie

"The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow."

-- William Boetcker

"Because it hasn't been done before, doesn't mean it can't be done. Those who are afraid to make a mistake will never make a significant achievement."

-- Ted Hood

"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."

-- Peter A. Cohen

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend you energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

-- Denis Waitley

"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

-- Samuel Johnson

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

-- Helen Keller

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!"

-- Jim Rohn

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

-- Marie Curie

"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
 

"When you're going through hell, keep going."

-- Albert Einstein

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."

-- Wisdom of Confucius

"You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."
-- Barbara Hall