Time

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

-Art Buchwald

Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower. -Brian Tracy

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction. -Hippocrates

The Most Essential Factor

The most essential factor is persistence, - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. -James Whitcomb Riley

"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later." –Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -Plato

"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence." –Arthur Schopenhauer

Over and Above

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.- Charles Kendall Adams

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“In the times of crisis I was not hurt by the harsh words of my enemies, but by the silence of my friends”.

~ Shakespeare

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“It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.”

~ John Keats (1795 - 1821)

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"When you are in the light, everything follows you, but when you enter into the dark, even your own shadow doesn't follow you." 

~Adolf Hitler

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.- Benjamin Disraeli

"Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar." Edmund Burke–

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. -Mary Wilson Little

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -Horace

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.” -Napolean Hill

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
- Mark Victor Hansen

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
-Sam Ewing

Standing Still

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
- Henri Fredric Amiel

Improvement

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
-Bo Bennett

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison

Success After Repeated Efforts

Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.
-Orison Sweet Marden

Two rules of success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
-Anonymous

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. -Sarah J. Hale

All truth passes thru 3 stages. 1st, it is ridiculed. 2nd, it is violently opposed. 3rd, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Schopenhauer

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. -Joseph F. Newton

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.- Albert Einstein

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword

Do something every day that u don't want 2 do; this is the golden rule 4 acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.-Mark Twain

The Things I Want To Do Today

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. -John Burroughs

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire. -Beah Richards

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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty".

~ Mahatma Gandhi 

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.- Sir Winston Churchill

3 Ways to Wisdom

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

-Confucius