Quotes on Effort

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown


You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown


Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman


God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland


The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson


Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird


The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown


Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown


No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison


Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips


The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers


When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw


Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda


Now I know, a refuge never grows
from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
~Indigo Girls


There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett


Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing


Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. ~Robert Brault,

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln


The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb


Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers


Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ~Sarah Brown


Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun


If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins


If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. ~Robert Brault,


The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola


We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~José Ortega y Gassett


People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. ~Author Unknown


Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb. ~Jeb Dickerson,


My morning choices are having a good tussle. Procrastination was winning, but Make Your Bed & Good Breakfast just kicked his butt. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ~Benjamin Franklin


Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying


For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot


There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. ~Joseph de Maistre


Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. ~Robert Brault,


Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. ~Ulysses S. Grant


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961


Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb


God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. ~Author Unknown


Doors don't slam open. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)


About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~Gloria Pitzer


Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren


Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb


If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch


He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb


To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects

Lovingly Detached

Truly wise is he who is unstirred by praise or blame, by love or hatred. He is not moved by the opposites of life. Verily does he delight in the blissful Self.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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Happiness or sorrow - whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

The Dhammapada

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union.

St John of the Cross

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To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, 'Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go.'... If we don't cling to past or future and we live entirely here and now, in 'Eternity's sunrise'.

Eknath Easwaran

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Addiction Quotes 7

"The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur."
Edward O. Sisson


"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."
Feodor Dostoevski

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Mortimer Caplan

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters."
Roger L'Estrange

"Habit: The shackles of the free."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it—how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!"
L. G. Elliott



"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson


"Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night from vicious nightmares. Three full weeks of endless torment without relief. The incommodiousness of it all."
Greg Evans



"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."
Hannah More



"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
Lane Olinghouse



"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character."
Edward O. Sisson

Addiction Quotes 6

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Source Unknown

"Easy does it."
Source Unknown

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
William Shakespeare


"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."
Julius Charles Hare

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand."
Irene C. Kassorla


"Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves."
Source Unknown


"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
Mark Twain


"We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn."
J. Todd Ferrier



"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
Source Unknown


"We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime."
Mahatma Gandhi

Addiction Quotes 5

"I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."
William S. Burroughs


"The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton."
Howard Zinn


"To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."
C. E. Montague


"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
Rob Gilbert


"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
Hunter S. Thompson


"Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."
Juliene Berk


"Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase."
James Fenton


"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld


"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


"We're worn into grooves by Time—by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness — achievement."
Frank B. Gilberth

Addiction Quotes 4

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
Tryon Edwards

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
John Dryden

"Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison."
John Hardwick

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."
Somerset Maugham

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Michel de Montaigne

"A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits."
Source Unknown

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
Abraham Joshua Heschel

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
Mick Jagger

Addiction Quotes 3

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
Hunter S. Thompson

"Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone."
Source Unknown

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
P. J. O'Rourke

"If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine."
Rob Stampfli

"Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?"
Anna Quindlen

"I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?"
Ken Faver

"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
Bertrand Russell

"For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings."
Peter McWilliams

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Stephen R. Covey

"Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous."
Source Unknown

Addiction Quotes 2

"All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal."
Thomas Szasz

"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
C.S. Lewis


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
Henry Ward Beecher


"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."

"He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie."
Anais Nin

"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug."
Maynard James Keenan

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."
Jacob M. Braude

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
Franklin P. Jones

"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body."
Thomas Szasz
Franklin P. Jones

Addiction Quotes 1

"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."
Spanish proverb

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
Ramona L. Anderson

"A habit is a shirt made of iron."
Czech proverb


"Our sickness is between our ears."
Source Unknown

"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."
Frank Outlaw

"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
Aldous Huxley

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation"
Wystan Hugh Auden

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung

"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Jung

Quotes On Achievement 7

"For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world."
John Winthrop

"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."
Marilyn Monroe

"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."
Alan Lakein


"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results."
Mark Victor Hansen

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
Mal Pancoast

"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
Thomas Edison

"What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!"
Danny Devito

"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
Albert Einstein

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days."
Albert Einstein

Quotes On Achievemnet 6

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
Lady Stella Reading

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
George Bernard Shaw

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."
A. P. Gouthey

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Otto Rank

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
George Fabricius

"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
Marilyn Monroe

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results."
Napoleon Hill

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
Margaret Thatcher

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
Golo Mann

Quotes On Achievemnet 5

"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."
Phaedrus

"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."
Zig Ziglar

"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"
Henry David Thoreau

"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."
C. Hoppe

"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do."
Thomas Edison

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."
Anthony Robbins

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
E. E. Cummings

Quotes On Achievement 4

"I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty."
Barbara Walters

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
Alfred A. Montapert

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,"
Simone Weil

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
Charles F. Kettering

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napoleon Hill

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Plutarch

Quotes On Achievement 3

"We will either find a way, or make one."
Hannibal

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
Eddie Robinson


"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes


"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."
Mark Victor Hansen

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of"
Eric Hoffer


"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Steve Jobs

"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
Jean De La Fontaine

"Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done."
Julia Woodruff

"Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth."
Greg Evans

Quotes on Achievement 2

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
Walt Disney


"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
Samuel Johnson

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
Samuel Johnson

"To spend life for something which outlasts it."
William James

"One who has done nothing, is not known until they have done something."
Allie Ross

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
Morarji Desai

"''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself."
Samuel Smiles

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
Alphonse De Lamartine

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
David Bailey

Quotes On Achievement 1

"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

"The journey is the reward."
Chinese Proverbs

"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
Aristotle

""No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything." "
Ronaldo(Ronaldinho) Assis Moreira

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent van Gogh

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
Confucius

"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."


"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."
Oliver Wendell Holmes


"Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest."

Quotes on Truth

Truth is victorious, never untruth.
Truth is the way; truth is the goal of life,
Reached by sages who are free from self-will.

Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6
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The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures... There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind.

J Krishnamurti
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Gautama Buddha
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei


Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Quotes Ability Part 7

"Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light."
Dale Adams


"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"
Ken Carey

"You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm."
Dale Adams

"Without a goal, you cannot survive."
Dale Adams

"Others have done it before me. I can, too."
Corporal John Faunce

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
T.S. Elliot

"Friends will always say 'go for it' even though deep inside they feel really hurt."
michelle santoso

"The trust is in the stars my dear Brutus"
William Shakespear

Quotes Ability Part 6

"Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition."
Dale Adams

"Your integrity is more precious than your life."
Dale Adams

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."
Bob Marley

"Someday will never come and take you by the hand."
Dale Adams

"Loneliness cannot be shared."
Dale Adams

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
Henry David Thoreau

"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem."
Dale Adam

"Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come."
Dale Adams

"There is the finest line between data and evidence"
Dale Adams

Quotes Ability Part 5

"A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."
Thomas Somerville

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
Grace Moore

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Henry David Thoreau

"I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad."
Dale Adams

"Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably"
Dale Adams

"Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot."
Dale Adams

"There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else."
Dale Adams

"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right."
Dale Adams