Best Quotes on Success

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. Eric Buttterworth Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca Both fortune and love befriend the bold. Ovid In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity. Patti Wilson The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt I will pay more for the ability to deal with people before any other ability under the sun. John D. Rockefeller A good plan vigorously executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Im a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas J. Watson

Best Quotes on Failure

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes on Dreams

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams. Walter Russell Bowie Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Leon J. Suenens Dreams dont work unless you do. John C. Maxwell So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. Walt Disney

Best Quotes on Happiness

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis De Condorcet Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness. Thomas S. Monson One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. Thucydides Lifes truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way. Unknown Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Unknown Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes on Attitude

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. Aristotle Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. Unknown Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann von Goethe We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. Ralph Waldo Emerson I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end . . . I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom Quotes
1. You can do anything, but not everything. David Allen 2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupry 3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. Unknown Author 4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky 5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon 6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi 7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. Lin-Chi 8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne 9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Abraham Maslow 10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle 11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracian 12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Basho 13. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Lao-Tze 14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin 16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. Marcel Proust 17. Work like you dont need money, love like youve never been hurt, and dance like no ones watching Unknown Author 18. Try a thing you havent done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. Virgil Garnett Thomson 19. Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers 20. People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing thats why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar

Funny Quotes
21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot 22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Oscar Levant 23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde 24. Ive gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. New York City detective 25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who werent smart enough to get out of jury duty. Norm Crosby

26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. Kurt Vonnegut 27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan 28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. Jean Rostand 29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin 30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. Richard Lewis 31. Weve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky 32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams 33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. Anon 34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now Im beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow 35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone elses can shorten it. Cullen Hightower 36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connolly 37. Theres so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? Dick Cavett 38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken 39. I dont mind what Congress does, as long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses. Victor Hugo 40. I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. Woody Allen

Otherwise Intelligent Quotes

41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein 42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andr Gide 43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle 44. Id rather live with a good question than a bad answer. Aryeh Frimer 45. We learn something every day, and lots of times its that what we learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan 46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal 47. Dont ever wrestle with a pig. Youll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. Cale Yarborough 48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesnt take his education too seriously. Charles F. Kettering 49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton 50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly 51. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. Dame Edna Everage 52. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell 53. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. Ellen Goodman 54. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr 55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didnt. Erica Jong 56. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson 57. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, youre still a rat. Lily Tomlin 58. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. Napoleon (Hanlons Razor) 59. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Oscar Wilde 60. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. Winston Churchill Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Winston Churchill I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Abraham Lincoln When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. Abraham Lincoln