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True happiness is not made
in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be
done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something
without commitment. -Marvin J. Ashton
Man does not drift into
goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for
his destination. -William George Jordan
Our desires always increase
with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet
unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. -Samuel Johnson
If you are not doing good
with what little you have, depend upon it the more money you get the
more selfish you would become...If your real desire is to do good,
there is no need to wait for money before you do it. -James Allen
My strength is the strength
of ten because my heart is pure. -Tennyson
Our great object in time is
not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must
leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry
into the eternal progress beyond. -Bulwer
I would rather fail in a
cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will
ultimately fail. -Woodrow Wilson
It is terrible to speak well
and be wrong. -Sophocles
I do not think there is any
other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of
perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -John
Rockefeller
Pursue, keep up with, circle
round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise. Do what
you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw
it still. -Thoreau
THE POWER OF A COMPELLING
CAUSE RESTS IN THE SOUL OF ITS CREATOR, because a cause springs from
the soul. It is a spiritual statement from one soul that cannot be the
result of many. It comes from a deep place of knowing, some conviction
that a richly imagined future could in some way, dramatically and
positively, change the world. -Lance Secretan, author "Inspirational
Leadership"
It had long since come to my
attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Elinor Smith
I bargained with Life for a
penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's
hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid!
-Jessie Rittenhouse
Every individual has a place
to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he
chooses to be so or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
The ones who miss all the
fun
Are those who say, "It can't be done."
In solemn pride they stand aloof
And greet each venture with reproof.
Had they the power they'd efface
The history of the human race.
We'd have no radio or motor cars,
No street lit by electric stars;
No telegraph nor telephone,
We'd linger in the age of stone.
The world would sleep if things were run
By those who say, "It can't be done."
-Author Unknown
Within our dreams and
aspirations we find our opportunities. -Sue Ebaugh
Repentance is another name
for aspiration. -H.W. Beecher
Your aspirations are your
possibilities. -Dr. Samuel Johnson
The life of every man is a
diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his
humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he
vowed to make it. -James Barrie
There is no shame in having
fallen. Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate. There is only
shame in not struggling to rise. And also shame for not wishing to
attain the better. Or not dreaming about it and praying for it. -Samuel
Amalu
The true law of the race is
progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of
conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. -Simms
Don't just read the easy
stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
-Jim Rohn
He is only advancing in
life, whose heart is getting softer, his blood warmer, his brain
quicker, and his spirit entering into living peace. -Ruskin
I want to convey how
beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and
make that dream a reality. -Sean Combs (Puff Daddy)
High aims form high
characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -Tryon Edwards
Not failure, but low aim, is
crime. -J.R. Lowell
Ambition is the spur that
makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make
purpose great and achievement greater. -Donald G. Mitchell
To be ambitious of true
honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very
principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles,
place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little
as the things are which we court. -Sir P. Sidney
Some of us have great
runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you
don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and
build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. -Amelia
Earhart
Success in life is a matter
not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and
perseverance. -C.W. Wendte
One never learns by success.
Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down
from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon
a plateau. -Josephine Preston Peabody
Take a look at those two
open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends,
and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to
achievement. Put them to work today. -Wilfred A. Patterson
I have always admired the
ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. -William
DeMille
Think of yourself as on the
threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies
before you. Achieve! Achieve! -Andrew Carnegie
The thorough man of business
knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs
can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of
well-devised means for the attainment to ends. -Andrew Carnegie
If you are not financially
independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that
you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply
means that you have the wrong plan. -Jim Rohn
We do not know today whether
we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we
have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was
begun in us. -Emerson
All the performances of
human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the
resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes
a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man
was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax, or of one
impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he
would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those
petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest
difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the
slender force of human beings. -Johnson
You may be whatever you
resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be
something. "I cannot," never accomplished anything; "I will try," has
wrought wonders. -J. Hawes
Perhaps perseverance has
been the radical principle of every truly great character. -J. Foster
Work is as much a necessity
to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be
called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a
man who is an idler in his own eyes. -W. Humboldt
I like work; it fascinates
me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -Jerome K. Jerome
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You will never have a
greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a
man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure
by his self-abandonment. And this law is the expansion of eternal
justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no
dominion over others. -Leonardo Da Vinci
Perhaps the surest test of
an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that
would damage his self-respect. -Thomas S. Monson
If a man can write a better
book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his
neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a
beaten path to his door. -Generally attributed to Emerson, also claimed
by Elbert Hubbard
In vain do they talk of
happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He
who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a
general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
-Horace Mann
The great high-road of human
welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they
who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will
invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every
right effort. -S. Smiles
What we truly and earnestly
aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by
changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. -Mrs.
Jameson
