Quotes - Success, Goals and Work

• Success is measured by your willingness to keep on trying.
• Where one door shuts, another opens
• The sky is the limit when your heart’s in it!
• An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
• Wish it…Dream it…Do it…
• The things we get for nothing are not worth what they cost.
• When a man doesn’t know what harbor he is making, no wind is right
• Even if you’re right on track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
• Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
• You can eat an elephant, if you just eat a bite at a time.
• It is more important to know where we are going that to get there quickly.
• The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score
• The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great selfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
• Improvement begins with I!
• We can’t all be stars, but we can all twinkle!
• The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
• Anyone who says something is impossible is always being interrupted by someone doing it.
• To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived…This is to have succeeded.
• All of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
• When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
• We acquire the strength we have overcome
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
• Never confuse motion with action
• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
• Success needs no excuse. Failure has all the excuses in the world.
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
• Men are born to succeed, not fail.
• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
• Remember that Triumph is just a little “umph” added to “try”.
• A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
• There is nothing two men can’t do if one of them is God.
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
• When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
• Genius is one percent inspiration; ninety-nine percent perspiration.
• Go through life armed with the strength of knowing your weaknesses.
• Life is a journey and only you hold the map.
• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
• It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.
• Energy and persistence conquer all things.
• I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
• Never leave that ‘til tomorrow which you can do today.
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
• The sign on the door to opportunity reads “Push”.
• Nothing happens unless first a dream.
• Every true strength is gained through struggle. There is no exception anywhere.
• You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
• To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first .
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
• The clock of time is wound but once and no man has the power, to tell just when the hands will stop, on what day or what hour. Now is the only time you have so live it with a will. Don’t wait until tomorrow the hands may then be still.
• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
• Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair.
• No race can prosper ‘til it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
• Well done is better than well said.
• None of us will ever accomplish everything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.
• Early to bed, early to rise, until you’ve earned enough to do otherwise!
• I never did a day’s work in my life-it was all fun!
• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
• Hard work never killed a man but it sure has scared a lot of them.
• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
• God sells us all things at the price of labor.
• There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
• If it isn’t worth working at, it isn’t worth being in.
• The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it.
• If you will let me, I will wish you in your future what all men desire-enough work to do, and strength enough to do your work.
• For great and low there’s but one test. ‘Tis that each one shall do his best;
  Who works with all the strength he can, Shall never die in debt to man.
• If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll put him to work.
• Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, and that love of work is success.
• If we don’t try, we don’t do, and if we don’t do, what are we on this earth for?
• Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping.
• A man will make more opportunities than he finds.
• The fruit derived of labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
• Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing.
• The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
• Each will find that happiness in this world mainly depends on the work he does, and the way in which he does it.
• The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
• Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing.
• Work is a spiritual necessity.
• Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind-honest work, which you intend getting done.
• Decide what you want to be-pay the price and be what you want to be.
• We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves..
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
• You see things; and you say “why?” But I dream things that never were and I say, “why not?”
• What a day may bring a day may take away.
• Most people are in favor of progress; it’s the changes they don’t like.
• The future is bought with the present.
• Work is love make visible Coming together is a beginning;
  Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.
• Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph yours with excellence.
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
• In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
• Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.
• Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
• Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
• A ship in port is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for.