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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
It Can Be Done
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
