56 Quotations to Inspire Success

56 Quotations to Inspire Success



1. As long as you are trying your very best, there can be noquestion of failure. -Mahatma Gandhi
2. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands,but in seeing with new eyes. Marcel Proust
3. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can''t,you''re right.-Mary Kay Ash
4. It''s a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept nothingbut the best, you very often get it.-W. Somerset Maugham
5. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, theyhad better aim at something high.-Henry David Thoreau
6. Success, remember, is the reward of toil.-Sophocles
7. Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -L. Thomas Holdcroft
8. By the work one knows the workman. -Jean de La Fontaine
9. It is the nature of man to err, but only the fool perseveres in error.-Cicero
10. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. -Henry David Thoreau
11. Life is like riding a bicycle. You don''t fall off unless you stop peddling. -Claude Pepper
12. Your life is what your thoughts make it.-Marcus Aurelius
13. The obscure we eventually see. The completely obvious takeslonger. -Edward R. Murrow
14. A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higherup. -Jack Herbert
15. Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of theway things turn out. - John Wooden
16. It''s what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden
17. The difference between a successful person and others is not alack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack ofwill. - Vince Lombardi
18. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most do. -Dale Carnegie
19. You may be disappointed if you fail. You are doomed if you don''ttry. - Beverly Sills
20. Intelligence is like a river-- the deeper it flows, the less noise it makes. -Anonymous
21. You can''t have an island of excellence in a sea of indifference.-Dr. Ernest Boyer, Carnegie Foundation
22. When you really know someone, you can''t hate him. -Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
23. One who takes small steps goes fast. -ZEN
24. I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do notknow.-Cicero
25. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great asyour dominant aspiration.- James Allen
26. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.-Margaret Thatcher
27. I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes.- Henry Kaiser
28. If you don''t invest very much, then defeat doesn''t hurt very muchand winning is not very exciting. -Dick Vermeil
29. Good is not good where better is expected. -Thomas Fuller
3o. The way I see it , if you want a rainbow, you have to put up withthe rain. -Dolly Parton
31. Rumors are the sauce of a dry life. -Orson Scott Card,Speaker for the Dead
32. The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearlyright and doing a thing exactly right.-Edward Simmons
33. Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what wecan. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. The harder you work, the luckier you get. -Gary Player, golfer
35. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. -Goldsmith
36. Don''t be afraid to take a big step is one is indicated. You can''tcross a chasm in two small jumps. -David Lloyd George
37. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have alreadymastered, you will never grow. -Ronald E. Osborn
38. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.-John Wooden
39. People will be just about as happy as they make their minds up tobe. - Abraham Lincoln
40. Paralyze resistance with persistence. -Woody Hayes
41. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, butin what direction we are moving.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
42. When one door is shut, another one opened. -Miguel De Cervantes
43. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubtsof today. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimistsees opportunity in every difficulty.-Winston Churchill
45. I don''t believe in pessimism. If something doesn''t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it is going to rain, it will. -Clint Eastwood
46. The only time you can''t afford to fail is the last time you try. -Charles Kettering
47. Two men look through the same bars; one sees mud and one thestars. -Frederick Langbridge
48. Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it canachieve. - Napoleon Hill
49. A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Gagehot
50. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.-John F. Kennedy
51. There is a better way for everything. Find it. - Thomas Edison
52. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. - C.M. Ward
53. There is no substitute for hard work. -Thomas Edison
54. Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be thatperfectly. -St. Francis De Sales
55. Well done is better than well said.- Ben Franklin
56. One of life''s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn''t do our homework, that we are not prepared.-Merlin Olsen

The Interview with God

The Interview with God

I dreamed that I had an Interview with God.

"So you would like to interview me?" GOD asked.

"If you have the time," I said.

God Smiled. "My time is eternity. What questions do you have in mind for me?"

"What surprises you most about humankind?"

God answered "That they get bored with childhood, they rust to grow up, and then long to be children again."

"That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health."

"That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future."

"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived."

GOD took mine hand and we were silent for awhile.

And then I asked, "As a parent, what are some of life's lessons you want your children to learn?"

"To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved."

"To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others."

"To Learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness."

"To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them."

"To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who need the least."

"To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply do not yet know how to express or show their feelings."

"To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently."

"To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves."

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly. "Is there anything else you'd like your children to know?"
GOD smiled and said "Just know that I am here always."

Take Time

Take Time

Take time to WORK. It is the price of SUCCESS.

Take time to MEDITATE. It is the price of POWER.

Take time to PLAY. It is the secret of PERPETUAL YOUTH.

Take time to READ. It is the way to KNOWLEDGE.

Take time to be FRIENDLY. It is the road to HAPPINESS.

Take time to LAUGH. It is the music of the SOUL.

Most IMPORTANTLY, take time to LOVE and BE LOVED.

Dialogue with God

Dialogue with God

I asked God...

I asked God to do away with my vices.

God said, “No”

They are not there for me to take them away. They are there for you to resist them.

I asked God to complete my body.

God said, “No”

Your spirit is complete, your body is only temporary.

I asked God to give me patience.

God said, “No”

Patience is a byproduct of difficulties. It is not given but learned.

I asked God to give me happiness.

God said, “No”

I give blessings. Happiness depends upon you.

I asked God to free me of pain.

God said, “No”

Suffering makes you go far away from this world and brings you nearer to me.

I asked God to make my spirit grow.

God said, “No”

You have to grow by yourself! But I will prune you to make you bear fruit.

I asked God for the things that would make me like life.

God said, “No”

I will give you life, so you can enjoy all those things.

I asked God to help me love the others, like He loves me.

God said: ...Ohhh, You finally got the idea...