Monday, November 12, 2007

Success/Excellence

“It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our lives.”
Gordon B. Hinckley

“Consciously give thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.  The more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.”
Sarah Ban Breathnack

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them in to the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, what’s in it for me?”
Brian Tracy

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make big choices in life.  Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.  Remember you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Sarah Breathnack

“Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.”
Abraham Lincoln 

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best.  If you’re not, pretend you are.”
Muhammad Ali

“It is better to try and do something and fail than to try and do something and succeed.”             Robert H. Shuller

 “Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
Arnold H. Glasow

“Every test in life makes us bitter or better, every problem can make us or break us.  The choice is always ours whether we become victims or victorious.”
Author Unknown

“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities to be great.  Seize common occasions and make them great!” 
Orison Marden

“Everything seems impossible until it is done.”
Nelson Mandela

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
Albert Einstein

“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.”
Will Rogers

“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.”
Author Unknown

“We are ultimately in charge of our own happiness.” 
Dieter F. Uchtdorf 

“We don’t need to wait to be happy until we reach some future point; happiness is already available to us—all the time.”  
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Do not become so focused on the finish line that you fail to find joy in the journey.”
Dieter Uchtdorf

“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”
Dennis Waitley

“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”
Wayne Dyer

“Courage doesn’t always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher

“You never will be the best person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life.”
James G. Bilkey

“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.” 
Harold J. Smith

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” 
William Shedd

“Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.”
Author Unknown

“Mountains to climb are a great blessing in our lives because they nearly always lead to great opportunities.  Instead of hiding from them, we should say, give me this mountain, give me these challenges because in the end we know it will make us a better person.”
Author Unknown

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.  The hard part is doing it.”  Norman Schwarzkopf

“Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.”
Ron Serino

“When something bad happens you have some choices.  You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”  
Author Unknown

“If you think you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill

“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your attitude.”
Napoleon Hill

“If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.” 
Napoleon Hill

“Optimism is a magnet.  If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” 
Mary Lou Retten

“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.”J. Sidlow Baxter

“Embrace things in your life that drive you to achieve, and start letting go of those things that do not.”Dale Carnegie

“If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.”Francis Bacon

“We become what we think about.”
Florence Nightengale

“Never stop striving for the best that is within you.”Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and start adding things that bring joy in to your life.”Lisa Hammon

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”Unknown

“The most important decision you will make every day is how you will spend your time.”Unknown

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”Theodore Roosevelt

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
Sir Winston Churchill

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”John Keats

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”
Edward Gibbon

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
Aubrey C. Daniels

“Practice makes permanent—only perfect practice makes perfect.”Author Unknown

“It is better to try something great and fail than to try nothing great and succeed.”
Author Unknown

“Success in all things depends on preparation.”
David B. Haight

"True success is not necessarily about being the best at all cost. It's about DOING your best at all times. If you do that long enough, who knows, you might just end up being the best."
Tope Popoola

“Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.”
Danny Thomas

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”Chuck Swindoll

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Unknown

“Within the fruits of success are the seeds of failure.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“You might have big dreams, but you must understand that your long-term successes are a direct result of what you achieve every day.”
Rick Pitino

“Today’s success is often tomorrow’s failure.”
Rick Pitino

“Becoming successful is a process that never ends.”
Rick Pitino

“Anyone can be great for a day, a week, a month. But the people who ultimately will be successful are the ones who understand that success is a long-term commitment, a marathon instead of a sprint.”
Rick Pitino

“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela

“Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.”
Robert K. Cooper

“It is not enough to be good, when you have the ability to be great!”
Anonymous

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.”
Barbara Bush

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
Mark Twain

“We must look at change as possibility, a chance to be more successful.”
Rick Pitino

“With good habits, success becomes second nature.”
Rick Pitino

“We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.”
Jim Rohn

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
Jim Rohn

"I’m so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential.”
M. Russell Ballard

“Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better.”
Pat Riley

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley

“The height of your accomplishments will mirror the depth of you convictions.”
Unknown

“Failure is merely an invitation to try something again.”
Andrew J. Sherman

“Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Darrell Royal

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.”
Barbara Bush

“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.”
Denis Waitley

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”
Vince Lombardi

“Keep in mind that you are always saying no to something. If it isn’t to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the more fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best.”
Steven R. Covey

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Samuel Johnson

“The more we refuse to bend to the prevailing wind, the more opportunity for greatness can become an everyday occurrence.”
Dave Pelzer

“Approach every potential great achievement in a state of total confidence.”
Pat Riley

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”
Robert Collier

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“The key question is not, ‘Did I make all my dreams come true?’ The key question is, ‘Did I try?’”
Marshall Goldsmith

“Our choices have the undeniable power of transforming our lives.”
Jose Teixeira

“Vision without work is daydreaming. Work without vision is drudgery. Vision coupled with work will ensure your success."
Thomas S Monson

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not."
Dennis Waitley

“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
William Arthur Ward

“Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.”
Charles Schultz

“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.”
Booker T. Washington

“We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.”
Dieter F. Uchdorf

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie

“Failure in life often comes because we fail to align our action with our conscience.”
Unknown

“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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