Quotes to inspire and reflect

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Logic is like the sword—those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason only.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens, opens, opens up all along the line.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I don't try to jump over 7 foot bars, I look around for 1 foot bars that I can step over.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.