About me: Love writing. broke heart 5.09.09
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Love weightlifting. Love reading. Love church. Love fishing. Love camping. Love dogs. Love pool. Love inspiration. Love contentment. Love freedom from pc probs. Love to make people laugh. Love happy memories. Love chocolate. Love crew cuts. Love video games from time to time. Love love. Always be fair in everything. Deny yourself. Absolutely, absolutely , absolutely starve the flesh. That enkindles happiness. You'll always have a smile. Obey laws. Respect the police & everybody else. Stay always clean. Maintain righteousness. Pick up others' litter. Yours too. Sacrifice face for others. If somebody says people were talking bad about you, say good, at least they weren't talking about somebody else. Be welcoming, friendly, warm, hospitable, convivial, cordial, genial, just, fair, impartial, honest, honorable, righteous, moral, and truthful always, always, always.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. There are no gains without pains.
Bernadette Devlin:
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bessie Stanley:
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
published 11/30/1905 in the Lincoln (Kansas) Sentinel - an adaptation of this is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, though nothing like it has been found in his writings.
Bessie Stanley (adapted; erroneously attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson):
Success
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is an adaptation of a poem published in 1905 by Bessie Stanley. No version of it has been found in Emerson's writings. For more information see http://www.transcendentalists.com/success.htm
Bruce Feirstein:
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Coco Chanel:
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Corita Kent:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent:
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
David Brinkley:
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
Demosthenes:
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Elaine Maxwell:
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elbert Hubbard:
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
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Emily Dickinson:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Frank Lloyd Wright:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright:
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
G. K. Chesterton:
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Havelock Ellis:
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Henry David Thoreau:
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau:
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry Ford:
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.
Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
J.C. Penney:
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
James A. Froude:
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
John C. Maxwell:
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Lily Tomlin:
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lloyd Jones:
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)
Louis L'Amour:
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Margaret Mead:
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:
Conquer, but don't triumph.
Maxine Hong Kingston:
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maya Lin:
To fly, we have to have resistance.
Michael Korda:
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Pablo Picasso:
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck:
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Richard Bach:
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Robert F. Kennedy:
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Samuel Smiles:
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles :
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910
Thomas Alva Edison:
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Wolfe:
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Ursula K. Le Guin:
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
Vaclav Havel:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vanessa Redgrave:
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vince Lombardi:
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi:
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
William Lloyd Garrison:
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
William Lyon Phelps:
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
William M. Winans:
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Winston Churchill:
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Learn to communicate more deeply, effectively, compassionately .
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Victor Cousins
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley
If you dance, you have to pay the fiddler.
James House
If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor Frankl
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
Who I'd like to meet: Elvis before he dies.
The man who fixes gas probs.
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