Quotes

Abraham Linkoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Eugene V. Debs

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

Benjamin Franklin

Empty the coins of your purse into your mind and your mind will fill your purse with coins. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Jimmy Dean

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? 

Anthony Robbins

 Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny. 

Bunker Hunt

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

John Crowe

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it. 

Harry Fosdick

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

John Maxwell

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. 

Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Sven Goran Eriksson

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. 

David Bly

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. 

Miguel de Cervantes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. 

Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Chris Bradford

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. 

Napoleon Hill

Enthusiasm starts the wheels of the imagination to turning. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.