“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
David Allen
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
Albert Einstein
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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 Allen
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
Abraham Lincoln
“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.”
Dale Carnegie
“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
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Herman Cain
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
Diane Von Furstenberg
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
Ann Landers
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
Arthur Golden
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
