Library of quotes

Abigail Van Buren

The less you talk, the More you're listened to.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope.

If i had 9 hours to cut down a tree, i would spend 6 hours sharpening my axe.

Public sentiment is everything. with public sentiment, nothing can fail. without it, nothing can succeed.

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.

If you deal with good people, you won't need a contract, and if you are dealing with bad people, no contract can protect you.

Aesop

Please all, and you will please none.

Alan Greenspan

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake..

To succeed, you will soon learn, as i did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education--literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Time equals life, therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought.. Although the result is tied to logical structure.

"There's only one corner of the universe. You can be certain of improving, and that's your own self"

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. You can always fix them after. What is important is to get the facts and make a decision. Remember that no decision is still a decision.

I am aware that success is more than good idea. It is timing too

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

If i missed one day of practice, i would notice it in my quality of performance. If i missed two days, the critics noticed. If i missed three days, the audience noticed.

Aughey

Lost time is never found again.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.

Bacon

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

During an upturn, prepare for the downturn.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

You may delay, but time will not.

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.

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

Bias

Hear much; speak little.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Patience Is A Key Element Of Success.

The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and to study great programs that other people have written.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Better to wear out than to rust out.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bovee

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now''

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "what's in it for me'"

Your Greatest Resource Is Your Time.

Power Is The Ability To Do Good Things For Others.

Nothing Splendid Has Ever Been Achieved Except By Those Who Dared Believe That Something Inside Them Was Superior To Circumstance.

Controlled Time Is Our True Wealth.

Buddha

We Must Be Diligent Today. To Wait Until Tomorrow Is Too Late. Death Comes Unexpectedly. How Can We Bargain With It?

Genius Is The Ability To Reduce The Complicated To The Simple.

Things Are Desperate – But Not Hopeless

Cadman

A Little Experience Often Upsets A Lot Of Theory.

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 Greatest And Most Important Problems In Life Are All In A Certain Sense Insoluble. They Can Never Be Solved, But Only Outgrown.

Your Vision Will Become Clear Only When You Can Look Into Your Own Heart. Who Looks Outside, Dreams; Who Looks Inside, Awakens.

Carlyle

Popular Opinion Is The Greatest Lie In The World.

Initiative - Take It, Rather Than Procrastinate.

Chamfort

Do Not Suppose Opportunity Will Knock Twice At Your Door.

You Will Never Find Time For Anything. If You Want Time, You Must Make It.

The Obstacles You Face Are... Mental Barriers Which Can Be Broken By Adopting A More Positive Approach.

Money Is The Most Envied, But The Least Enjoyed. Health Is The Most Enjoyed, But The Least Envied.

There Are 3 Difficulties In Authorship: To Write Anything Worth The Publishing, To Find Honest Men To Publish It And Get Sensible Men To Read It.

A Man Who Dares To Waste One Hour Of Life Has Not Discovered The Value Of Life.

It Is Not The Strongest Of The Species That Survive, Nor The Most Intelligent, But The One Most Responsive To Change.

Putting Off An Easy Thing Makes It Hard. Putting Off A Hard Thing Makes It Impossible.

Where There Is An Open Mind, There Will Always Be A Frontier.

The Reputation Of A Man Is Like His Shadow, -- Gigantic When It Precedes Him, And Pygmy In Its Proportions When It Follows.

Sow A Thought, And You Reap An Act;/ Sow An Act, And You Reap A Habit;/ Sow A Habit, And You Reap A Character;/ Sow A Character, And You Reap A Destiny.

Don'T Wait For Extraordinary Circumstance To Do Good; Try To Use Ordinary Situations.

When You Were Born, You Cried And The World Rejoiced. Live Your Life So That When You Die, The World Cries And You Rejoice.

The Miracle Is Not To Fly In The Air, Or To Walk On The Water; But To Walk On The Earth.

When Planning For A Year, Plant Corn. When Planning For A Decade, Plant Trees. When Planning For Life, Train And Educate People.

If You'Re A Champion, You Have To Have It In Your Heart.

The Big Shots Are Only The Little Shots Who Keep Shooting.

There Are No Secrets To Success. It Is The Result Of Preparation, Hard Work, Learning From Failure.

Let Your Speech Be Always With Grace, Seasoned With Salt, That Ye May Know How Ye Ought To Answer Every Man.

The Greatest Inspiration Is Often Born Of Desperation.

Confucius

If A Man Take No Thought About What Is Distant, He Will Find Sorrow Near At Hand.

When You Know A Thing, To Hold That You Know It; And When You Do Not Know A Thing, To Allow That You Do Not Know It; This Is Knowledge.

Cooper

Principles Become Modified In Practise By Facts.

Dale Carnegie

The Successful Man Will Profit From His Mistakes And Try Again In A Different Way.

Dan Millman

I Learned That We Can Do Anything, But We Can'T Do Everything.. At Least Not At The Same Time. So Think Of Your Priorities Not In Terms Of What Activities You Do, But When You Do Them. Timing Is Everything.

Willpower Is The Key To Success. Successful People Strive No Matter What They Feel By Applying Their Will To Overcome Apathy, Doubt Or Fear.

Dan Quayle

If We Don'T Succeed, We Run The Risk Of Failure.

David Allen

Much Of The Stress That People Feel Doesn'T Come From Having Too Much To Do. It Comes From Not Finishing What They Started.

David Bach

Financial Education Needs To Become A Part Of Our National Curriculum And Scoring Systems So That It'S Not Just The Rich Kids That Learn About Money.. It'S All Of Us.

Dawson Trotman

The Greatest Amount Of Wasted Time Is The Time Not Getting Started.

Denis Waitley

Out Of Need Springs Desire, And Out Of Desire Springs The Energy And The Will To Win.

Procrastination Is The Fear Of Success. People Procrastinate Because They Are Afraid Of The Success That They Know Will Result If They Move Ahead Now. Because Success Is Heavy, Carries A Responsibility With It, It Is Much Easier To Procrastinate And Live On The 'Someday I'll? Philosophy.

Dennis Mullen

The Secret To Productive Goal Setting Is In Establishing Clearly Defined Goals, Writing Them Down And Then Focusing On Them Several Times A Day With Words, Pictures And Emotions As If We'Ve Already Achieved Them.

The Winners In Life Think Constantly In Terms Of I Can, I Will, And I Am. Losers, On The Other Hand, Concentrate Their Waking Thoughts On What They Should Have Or Would Have Done, Or What They Can'T Do.

Winners Take Time To Relish Their Work, Knowing That Scaling The Mountain Is What Makes The View From The Top So Exhilarating.

You Have All The Reason In The World To Achieve Your Grandest Dreams. Imagination Plus Innovation Equals Realization.

You Must Welcome Change As The Rule But Not As Your Ruler.

Don'T Judge Me By My Words Alone, Judge Me By My Actions.

Don Carlos Schiller

Who Dares Nothing, Need Hope For Nothing.

Don Marquis

Procrastination Is The Art Of Keeping Up With Yesterday.

Don Nigbor

In A Given Situation, Do Not Rely On A Single Solution To Solve A Problem. Develop A Parallel Path That Could Be Used In The Event The Original Solution Does Not Come To Bear.

Donald Gardner

Do You Know What Happens When You Give A Procrastinator A Good Idea? Nothing!

Dorothy Parker

The Best Cure For Boredom Is Curiosity. There Is No Cure For Curiosity.

Douchan Gersi

Victory Always Starts In The Head. It'S A State Of Mind. It Then Spreads With Such Radiance And Such Affirmations That Destiny Can Do Nothing But Obey.

Doug Evelyn

Long-Range Planning Works Best In The Short Term

Doug Williams

Never Give Up, Never Give In, And When The Upper Hand Is Ours, May We Have The Ability To Handle The Win With The Dignity That We Absorbed The Loss.

Douglas Jerrold

Quality, Not Quantity, Is My Measure.

Dowden

Sometimes A Noble Failure Serves The World As Faithfully As A Distinguished Success.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Listening, Not Imitation, May Be The Sincerest Form Of Flattery.

The Person Interested In Success Has To Learn To View Failure As A Healthy, Inevitable Part Of The Process Of Getting To The Top.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Waiting Is A Trap. There Will Always Be Reasons To Wait. The Truth Is, There Are Only Two Things In Life, Reasons And Results, And Reasons Simply Don'T Count.

Dryden

For They Can Conquer Who Believe They Can.

Dumas, Ange Pitou

Nothing Succeeds Like Success.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There Is No Victory At Bargain Basement Prices.

Dwight David Eisenhower

A People That Values Its Privileges Above Its Principles Soon Loses Both.

Edgar Watson Howe

Half The Promises People Say Were Never Kept, Were Never Made.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

We Will Open The Book. Its Pages Are Blank. We Are Going To Put Words On Them Ourselves. The Book Is Called Opportunity And Its First Chapter Is New Year'S Day.

Edmund Burke

All That Is Necessary For The Triumph Of Evil Is That Good Men Do Nothing.

Ambition Can Creep As Well As Soar.

You Can Never Plan The Future By The Past.

Edward De Bono

Humor Is By Far The Most Significant Activity Of The Human Brain.

Edward F. Halifax

He Who Leaves Nothing To Chance Will Do Few Things Poorly, But He Will Do Few Things.

Edward Gardner

It'S Not What You Take But What You Leave Behind That Defines Greatness.

Edward Young

Procrastination Is The Thief Of Time.