Quotes For You

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. -Edward Simmons

A stumble may prevent a fall. -English Proverb

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. -Dell Crossword

Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road. -Laing Burns, Jr

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom. - Zig Ziglar

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. - Charles Francis Adams II

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. - Charles Francis Adams II

My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward. - David Thomas

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. - Jim Rohn

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. - Susan B. Anthony

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road, the one "less traveled by"- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. - Rachel Carson

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. - Jim Rohn

Half the failures in life arise from pulling on one's horse as it is leaping. - Julius Hare, 1795-1855

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. - Thomas Disch

It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It's like the perfume of the flower - unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. It can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth. -George Matthew Adams

Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are. - George Matthew Adams

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. - Orison Swett Marden

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. - Robert Collier

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't. - Zig Ziglar

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success. - Thomas J. Watson

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

For what can war, but endless war, still breed? - John Milton

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. - William Cowper

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon writer (1937- )

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Historian

One joy shatters a hundred griefs. - Chinese Proverb

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. -Helen Keller

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb

I pressed down on the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea. - P G Wodehouse

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -Thomas L. Holdcroft

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. - Ann Landers

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling. - Claude Pepper

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Alfred D. Souza

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. -Chinese Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Irish Proverb

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. -English Proverb

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friend's forehead. -Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb

It is not enough to aim, you must hit. -Italian proverb

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. -Turkish proverb

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. -Chinese Proverb

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. -Sanskrit Proverb

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. -Danish Proverb

He who begins many things finishes but a few. -Italian proverb

Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. -German Proverb

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. -Swedish Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. -Chinese Proverb

Have a vision not clouded by fear. -Cherokee Proverb