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Please enjoy these Quotes on Success that I have collected over the years.

To Your Success,

Rob Willis

 

 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden

The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
- Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
- Dale Carnegie

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.
- John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Oliver Goldsmith

All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Thomas Fuller

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- Thomas  Paine

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy

Men are disturbed, not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
- Epictetus

It¹s not the situation....It¹s your reaction to the situation.
- Bob Conklin

“Most people are paralyzed by fear. Step forward and you’ll take charge of your life and your world.”
- Mark Victor Hansen

To win...you¹ve got to stay in the game....
- Claude M. Bristol

Some defeats are only installments to victory.
- Jacob A. Riis

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, American Leader and Educator

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them...they are liable to spring upon you; but...if you look them squarely in they eye, they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes, 1879-1972, American Judge, Secretary of State

Whether you think you can or think you can¹t you are right.
- Henry Ford

If you have made a mistake and didn't correct it, you have made another mistake.
- Anonymous

We can never succeed until we believe we¹ll succeed.
- Keith DeGreen

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you."  Jim Rohn

"Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us.  And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.
- Jim Rohn

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.
- Jim Rohn

A man is literally what he thinks.
- James Allen

The greatest power that a person posseses is the power to choose.
- J. Martin Kohe

What¹s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
- Earl Nightingale

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal…
- Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, American Leader, Nobel Prize

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, American Leader, Nobel Prize

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Napolean Hill, 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.
- Jim Rohn

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.
- Jim Rohn

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered.  But your words tell the rest.
- Jim Rohn

Words do two major things:  They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
- Jim Rohn

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.
- Jim Rohn

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation and great joy.
- Jim Rohn

For every force, there is a counterforce. For every negative, there is a positive. For every action, there is a reaction.  For every cause, there is an effect.
- Grace Speare

Winning isn't everything...or even the only thing...it's the single thing that determines who gets the prize..."
- Doug Firebaugh

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
- General George S. Patton

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.
- Jeffrey Gitomer

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
- Billie Jean King

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
- Napoleon Hill

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
- Martin Luther

Worry is negative goal setting.
- Brian Tracy

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
- E.H. Harriman

The fear is worse than the pain.
- Shannon Bahr

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
- Napoleon Hill {American Speaker and Motivational Writer}

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Richard Cushing

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away.  Just the words - 'I tried.'  That's what this game of life is all about.  Trying.  There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.
- Mickey Rooney

Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!
- Jim Rohn

For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.
- George S. Patton

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- James A. Froude

"You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today."
- Brian Tracy

"Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"The future belongs to charismatic communicators who are technically competent."
- Patricia Fripp

"Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you."
- Brian Tracy

Your marketing efforts have to be ongoing, consistent and relentless. Hi Tech, Low Tech, No Tech and sometimes totally shameless.
- Patricia Fripp

"Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
- Anthony Robbins

"With more success, comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them." - Mark Victor Hansen

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
- Alistair Cooke

"Challenge everything you do. Expand your thinking. Refocus your efforts. Rededicate yourself to your future."
- Patricia Fripp

"Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Style is being yourself, but on purpose."
- Patricia Fripp

"You do not need to be different from who you are.  You only need to be more of the person you already are."
- Brian Tracy

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
- Benjamin Disraeli

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun¹s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell

"It is not what you say you believe that is important, but what you model, encourage, reward and let happen."
- Patricia Fripp

"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior..."
- George Sheehan

"Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want.  Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself."
- Jim Rohn

"Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values."
- Brian Tracy

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see..."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units."
- Nido Qubein

"The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions."
- Alan Cohen

"Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napoleon Hill

"Winning isn't everything...or even the only thing...it's the single thing that determines who gets the prize..."
- Doug Firebaugh

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
- General George S. Patton

"You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener."
- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it."
- Billie Jean King

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Martin Luther

"Worry is negative goal setting."
- Brian Tracy

"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."
- E.H. Harriman

"The fear is worse than the pain."
- Shannon Bahr

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Style is being yourself, but on purpose."
- Patricia Fripp

"You do not need to be different form who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are."
- Brian Tracy

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"To do two things at once is to do neither."
- Publilius Syrus

"What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do."
- Joe Namath

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
- Helen Keller {1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Motivator}

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
- Lou Holtz

"Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion."
- Peter Drucker

"The secret to success in life is making your vocation your vacation."
- Mark Twain

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action."
- Brendan Francis

"One of the marks of superior people is that they are action-oriented.  One of the marks of average people is that they are talk-oriented."
- Brian Tracy

"Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life."
- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
- Anthony Robbins

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
- Francis Bacon {1561-1626 English Philosopher}

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the
horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are  blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

"The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't."
- Zig Ziglar

"It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power that will fit him for his destiny."
- Josiah G. Holland

"Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold."
- Sir William Osler

"Most people engage in activities that are tension- relieving rather than goal-achieving."
- Brian Tracy

"We are slaves to whatever  we don't understand."
- Vernon Howard

 
 
 
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