QUOTATIONS: SUCCESS, AMBITION, CHALLENGES AND STRATEGY
Updated March 20, 2000
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." -George Burns
"You'll miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzsky
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." -Joseph Campbell
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." -Joseph Addison
"The man on top of the mountain did not fall there." -Unknown
"Little things console us because little things afflict us." -Blaise Pascal
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." -Old African proverb
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." -Anita Koddick
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." -Robert Frost
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." -General George Patton
"Fear and worry always lead to defeat." -Unknown
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." -Doug Larson
"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But l can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell
"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it." -Robert Oppenheimer
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T. S. Eliot
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an expreiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A problem is chance for you to do your best." -Duke Ellington
"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think." -Olivia Newton-John
"If you plan for the worse and the worst does not come, what does come is at least better." -Michael Messinger
"Few of us will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of these acts will be written the history of this generation." -Robert Kennedy
"Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have taken the wrong road - turn around!" -Edgar Cayce
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." -Joseph Addison
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -Michael Jordan
"Life is like a rollercoaster, it has it's ups and downs, but when part of it is over, you wish you could do it again." -Andrew A. Hagen
"If you are drowning and all you can think about is the fact that you can't swim, you are certainly going to die." -Lee Highsmith
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown
"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." -Joseph Campbell
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." -Euripides
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath." -Michael Caine
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising each time we fall." -Confucius
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" -Thich Nhat Hanh
"You'll miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzsky
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." -Moliere
"There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve." -Mike Leavitt
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." -James Broughton
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." -Roger Miller
"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." -Chinese Proverb
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." -Arthur Calwell
"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." -James Bryant Conant
