Great quotes

"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."
-Robert H. Schuller 

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
Tom Krause

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael

A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, he creates the right opportunity. ~ Author Unknown

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ~ Alexandre Dumas

"Make a living by doing what you enjoy, and you never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius

"What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it. "

Lee Iacocca

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."

Warren Beatty

"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life"

Buckminster Fuller

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't wait for opportunity to come knocking on your door... go out and give it directions."

Anon

"If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."

Brian Tracy

"We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow."

Jonathan Westover

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."

Elbert Hubbard

"Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts."

Sergio Bambaren

"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all."

Brian Tracey