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You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.
The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.
Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.
Control your destiny or somebody will.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
One finds limits by pushing them.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Ideas without action are worthless.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
