Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. (Lou Holtz)
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. (Orison Swett Marden)
Although we cannot do everything at once, we can do something at once.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. (Betty Bender)
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. (Disraeli)
Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it. (Jeremiah Seed)
A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. (Alan Saporta)
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. (James R. Cook)
Don't be afraid of failing because of a mistake; be afraid of failing to learn from a mistake.
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. (John Keats)
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (William Faulkner)
Don't take directions from someone who hasn't been there!
Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great. (Farmers Almanac)
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. (John F. Kennedy)
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (Orlando A. Battista)
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.
Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.
Failure is an event, not a person. (William D. Brown)
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. (Michael Konda)
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. (J.G. Holland)
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Great minds have purposes, Little minds have wishes. (Washington Irving)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot)
He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house. (Danish proverb)
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb)
The highest reward for a persons' toil is not what she gets for it, but rather what she becomes by it.
I am not competitive. I simply win. (coloradojules)
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. (Edward Everett Hale)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby)
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. (George Burns)
If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau)
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. (Thomas Edison)
If you can't do extraordinary things, do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. (Mary Engelbreit)
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. (F. Wikzek)
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. (Frank A. Clark)
Imagination is all you need to start, and heart all you need to succeed.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. (Cassius)
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. (Elinor Smith)
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. (English proverb)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. (Napoleon Hill)
It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)
It is not a tragedy to have only one talent; the tragedy is in not using it. (Farmers Almanac)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Seneca)
It's not how many hours you put in but how much you put into the hours.
It's not how much you know but the ability to get information and then act on it that gets things done.
It's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. (Hubert Humphrey)
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. (Frank Tyger)
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Let not the mistakes of yesterday - nor the fears of tomorrow - spoil our today.
Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw)
Listen to your heart and proceed with confidence.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (John Burroughs)
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. (John C. Maxwell)
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. (Alexander Pope)
The man who has done his level best...is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. (B. C. Forbes)
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John Henry Newman)
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. (John Foster Dulles)
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. (Sophia Loren)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. (James Joyce)
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere. (Robert Anthony)
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. (William Feather)
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you. (Althea Gibson)
No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Henry David Thoreau)
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford)
An obstinate man does not hold opinions - they hold him. (Alexander Pope)
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. (Arthur Ashe)
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. (Sophocles)
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Robert F. Kennedy)
Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.
Opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. (H. Jackson Brown)
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. (William Shakespeare)
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. (Jonathan Swift)
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice!
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein)
Progress is not created by contented people. (Frank Tyger)
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. (Swami Sivanda)
Reach for the Moon. If you fall short...You may land on a star.
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. (Susan Longacre)
The reward of a thing well-done is to have done it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around. (Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb)
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
She who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. (Peter Marshall)
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
Some people grin and bear it. Other people smile and change it.
Success comes in cans. Failure comes in can'ts
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. (Bill Gates)
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. (General George S. Patton)
Success is knowing the difference between cornering people and getting them in your corner.
Success is measured not by what you gain, but what you overcome.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish. It's measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain your struggle against the odds. (Jerry Frenz)
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Reggie Leach)
Success is often just an idea anyway.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. (Charles Luckman)
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. (Booker T. Washington)
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. (General George S. Patton, Jr.)
Take risk not to escape life, but to prevent life escaping you.
There are always two choices, two paths to take.One is easy...and its only reward is that it's easy.
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. (Colin Powell)
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills)
There is no limit to the good a human can do, if they don't care who gets the credit.
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. (Christopher Darlington Morley)
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. (Abraham Lincoln)
Those who try to do something and fail are much better off than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France)
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Bernadette Devlin)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. (James F. Byrnes)
Trouble is merely opportunity dressed in work clothes.
Try to believe that if you take the leap you'll be taught how to fly.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. (Vance Havner)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? (Dr. Robert Schuller)
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. (Goethe)
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." (Erma Bombeck)
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. (Henry Ford)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. (Henry C. Link)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. (Laurence Lee)
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
You can do whatever you have to do,and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You can't win if you don't begin.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. (Vernon Howard)
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. (Charles C. Noble)
You shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do.
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. (Lou Holtz)
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. (Orison Swett Marden)
Although we cannot do everything at once, we can do something at once.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. (Betty Bender)
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. (Disraeli)
Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it. (Jeremiah Seed)
A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. (Alan Saporta)
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. (James R. Cook)
Don't be afraid of failing because of a mistake; be afraid of failing to learn from a mistake.
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. (John Keats)
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (William Faulkner)
Don't take directions from someone who hasn't been there!
Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great. (Farmers Almanac)
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. (John F. Kennedy)
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (Orlando A. Battista)
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.
Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.
Failure is an event, not a person. (William D. Brown)
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. (Michael Konda)
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. (J.G. Holland)
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Great minds have purposes, Little minds have wishes. (Washington Irving)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot)
He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house. (Danish proverb)
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb)
The highest reward for a persons' toil is not what she gets for it, but rather what she becomes by it.
I am not competitive. I simply win. (coloradojules)
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. (Edward Everett Hale)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby)
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. (George Burns)
If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau)
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. (Thomas Edison)
If you can't do extraordinary things, do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. (Mary Engelbreit)
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. (F. Wikzek)
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. (Frank A. Clark)
Imagination is all you need to start, and heart all you need to succeed.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. (Cassius)
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. (Elinor Smith)
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. (English proverb)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. (Napoleon Hill)
It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)
It is not a tragedy to have only one talent; the tragedy is in not using it. (Farmers Almanac)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Seneca)
It's not how many hours you put in but how much you put into the hours.
It's not how much you know but the ability to get information and then act on it that gets things done.
It's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. (Hubert Humphrey)
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. (Frank Tyger)
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Let not the mistakes of yesterday - nor the fears of tomorrow - spoil our today.
Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw)
Listen to your heart and proceed with confidence.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (John Burroughs)
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. (John C. Maxwell)
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. (Alexander Pope)
The man who has done his level best...is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. (B. C. Forbes)
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John Henry Newman)
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. (John Foster Dulles)
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. (Sophia Loren)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. (James Joyce)
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere. (Robert Anthony)
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. (William Feather)
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you. (Althea Gibson)
No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Henry David Thoreau)
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford)
An obstinate man does not hold opinions - they hold him. (Alexander Pope)
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. (Arthur Ashe)
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. (Sophocles)
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Robert F. Kennedy)
Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.
Opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. (H. Jackson Brown)
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. (William Shakespeare)
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. (Jonathan Swift)
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice!
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein)
Progress is not created by contented people. (Frank Tyger)
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. (Swami Sivanda)
Reach for the Moon. If you fall short...You may land on a star.
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. (Susan Longacre)
The reward of a thing well-done is to have done it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around. (Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb)
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
She who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. (Peter Marshall)
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
Some people grin and bear it. Other people smile and change it.
Success comes in cans. Failure comes in can'ts
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. (Bill Gates)
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. (General George S. Patton)
Success is knowing the difference between cornering people and getting them in your corner.
Success is measured not by what you gain, but what you overcome.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish. It's measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain your struggle against the odds. (Jerry Frenz)
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Reggie Leach)
Success is often just an idea anyway.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. (Charles Luckman)
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. (Booker T. Washington)
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. (General George S. Patton, Jr.)
Take risk not to escape life, but to prevent life escaping you.
There are always two choices, two paths to take.One is easy...and its only reward is that it's easy.
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. (Colin Powell)
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills)
There is no limit to the good a human can do, if they don't care who gets the credit.
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. (Christopher Darlington Morley)
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. (Abraham Lincoln)
Those who try to do something and fail are much better off than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France)
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Bernadette Devlin)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. (James F. Byrnes)
Trouble is merely opportunity dressed in work clothes.
Try to believe that if you take the leap you'll be taught how to fly.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. (Vance Havner)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? (Dr. Robert Schuller)
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. (Goethe)
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." (Erma Bombeck)
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. (Henry Ford)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. (Henry C. Link)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. (Laurence Lee)
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
You can do whatever you have to do,and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You can't win if you don't begin.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. (Vernon Howard)
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. (Charles C. Noble)
You shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do.
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. (Lou Holtz)
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