It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.[ii] Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.[iii] If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.[iv] Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.[v]
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.[vi] Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[vii] Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.[viii] Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.[ix] Adventure is worthwhile.[x]
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.[xi] Never leave that 'till tomorrow which you can do today.[xii]
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.[xiii] The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.[xiv] Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.[xv] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.[xvi] I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.[xvii] The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy.[xviii] Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.[xix] The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.[xx] Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.[xxi] There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.[xxii]
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.[xxiii]
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.[xxiv]
The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.[xxv] There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.[xxvi] When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.[xxvii]
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.[xxviii]
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.[xxix]
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.[xxx]
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.[xxxi] To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.[xxxii]
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.[xxxiii] Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.[xxxiv] Whatever you do, do with all your might.[xxxv] Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.[xxxvi]
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.[xxxvii] Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.[xxxviii] It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.[xxxix]
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.[xl] Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.[xli]
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.[xlii]
Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it.[xliii] If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.[xliv] The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.[xlv]
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.[xlvi] Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.[xlvii]
If you believe a thing impossible, your despondency will make it so; but if you preserve, you will overcome every difficulty.[xlviii]
Those who can bear all can dare all.[xlix]
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.[l] Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.[li]
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.[lii]
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.[liii]
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.[liv] Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.[lv]
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"[lvi]
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[i] Doug Larson
[i] Doug Larson
[ii] Seneca
[iii] Dr. Joyce Brothers
[iv] Unknown Author
[v] Henry David Thoreau
[vi] Albert Einstein
[vii] Dale Carnegie
[viii] T. S. Eliot
[ix] George Patton
[x] Amelia Earhart
[xi] Joshua J. Marine
[xii] Benjamin Franklin
[xiii] William Ellery Channing
[xiv] Napoleon Hill
[xv] Mark Twain
[xvi] William Jennings Bryan
[xvii] Woodrow Wilson
[xviii] Martin Luther King, Jr.
[xix] Unknown Author
[xx] Chinese proverb
[xxi] Unknown Author
[xxii] William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
[xxiii] Barbara Hall
[xxiv] Ayn Rand
[xxv] Colin Powell
[xxvi] Wayne Dyer
[xxvii] Walt Disney
[xxviii] E.M. Gray
[xxix] Sydney Smiles
[xxx] Denis Waitley
[xxxi] John Wesley
[xxxii] Elbert Hubbard
[xxxiii] Frank Lloyd Wright
[xxxiv] E. Joseph Cossman
[xxxv] Marcus Tullius Cicero
[xxxvi] Booker T. Washington
[xxxvii] Margaret Thatcher
[xxxviii] Cecil B. DeMille
[xxxix] Charles Kettering
[xl] Paul J. Meyer
[xli] Roger Staubach
[xlii] Jesse Owens
[xliii] Mahatma Gandhi
[xliv] Mario Andretti
[xlv] Arthur C. Clarke
[xlvi] John Wooden
[xlvii] Dale Carnegie
[xlviii] Dandemis
[xlix] Marquis De Vauvenargues
[l] Herodotus
[li] Josh Billings
[lii] Calvin Coolidge
[liii] Winston Churchill
[liv] John D. Rockefeller
[lv] Conrad Hilton
[lvi] Richard M. Devos
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