~~ Words of Wisdom ~~

v   "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." Napoleon Hill

v   "If a man does his best, what else is there?" General George S. Patton

v   "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson

v   "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

v   "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln

v   "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." Richard Bach

v   "Patience is the companion of wisdom." Saint Augustine

v   "I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others." Booker T. Washington

v   "Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats." Napoleon Hill

v   "Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." Napoleon Hill

v   "Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought." Napoleon Hill

v   "Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together." Napoleon Hill

v   "A goal is a dream with a deadline." Napoleon Hill

v   "First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." Napoleon Hill

v   "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it." Napoleon Hill

v   "Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought." Napoleon Hill

v   "No person can succeed in a line of endeavor which one does not like." Napoleon Hill

v   "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." Napoleon Hill

v   Nature and wisdom never are at strife. Plutarch

v   It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

v   The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. William James

v   The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. Solomon Ibn Gabriol

v   Years teach us more than books. Berthold Auerbach

v   The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. William Penn

v   The middle course is the best. Cleobulus

v   The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Thomas Huxley

v   A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. Latin Proverb

v   Silence does not always mark wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

v   No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca

v   Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. John Milton

v   By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander

v   The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt

v   Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. John Tillotson

v   The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great

v   A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

v   One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. Alexander Chase

v   How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise. Homer

v   On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows. Edward Young

v   The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. Confucius

v   Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides

v   They can because they think they can. Virgil

v   Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.  Thomas Jefferson

v   Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. Theodore T. Hunger

v   We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. Cicero

v   Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier

v   The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Loyd Wright

v   A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard

v   There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

v   Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. A. Branson Alcott

v   The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

v   The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and  perseverance. Owen Feltham

v   Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley

v   The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. Vince Lombardi

v   I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope

v   Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings

v   The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Earl of Beaconsfield

v   Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. Evan Esar

v   The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

v   If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Jospeph Addison

v   Impatience never commanded success. Edwin H. Chapin

v The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. Henry W. Longfellow

v   To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. Shakespeare

v   Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein

v   The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. C. V. White

v   If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields

v   The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher

v   The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. Lee Iacocca

v   A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon

v   In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. Victor Cousins

v   Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi

v   Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley (as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)

v   A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life. Samuel Butler

v   Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

v   The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Montaigne

v   Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning

v   The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. Kahlil Gibran

v   Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. Aldous Huxley

v   If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra

v   Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. Polybius

v   Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor Frankl

v   The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. Richard Monckton Milnes

v   To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift. Franklin Roosevelt

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

v   Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

v   It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

v   Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it. Burmese Saying

v   In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Author Unknown

v   Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. David Ogilvy

v   There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. Logan Pearsall Smith

v   It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson

v   Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton

v   If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra

v   We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson

v   Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder

v   The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

v   Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder

v   We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

v   Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire

v   If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe. Latin Proverb

v   Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher

v   You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown

v   The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

v   Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague

v   Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson

v   Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence

v   When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. – Richard Hooker