Positive Quotations To Help You Dream Bigger, Enjoy Life More, And Find Greater Success!
Topic: Achieving More You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. –Lucinda Basset
To exceed beyond your wildest expectations you must begin with wild expectations. –Anonymous
High expectations are the key to everything. –Sam Walton
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high. –Henry David Thoreau
Topic: Perseverance As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance… but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still – and persevere. –Madeleine Albright
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. –Isak Dinesen
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. –Christopher Morley
Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. –Benjamin Franklin
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done, and done right. –Walt Disney
Victory belongs to the most persevering. –Napoleon Bonaparte
If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. –Lou Holz
Topic: Believe in yourself To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. –Sugar Ray Robinson
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. –Norman Vincent Peale
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. –John Stuart Mill
Topic: Dreams When you cease to dream you cease to live. –Malcolm S. Forbes
The man who has no imagination has no wings. –Muhammad Ali
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. –Anatole France
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. –John Ruskin
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. –Edgar Allan Poe
Topic: Taking responsibility I made the decision. I’m accountable. –Janet Reno
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy. -Henry Ford
The wise person questions himself, the fool others. –Henri Arnold
Topic: Attitude 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
The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. –Thomas A. Buckner
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. –Anonymous
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. –William James
Topic: Action In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. –Theodore Roosevelt
A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. –Anonymous
What we learn we learn by doing. –Aristotle
No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind. –George E. Woodbury
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! –Jonathan Winters
Topic: Taking risks Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? –Frank Scully
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. –B.C. Forbes
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. –Anonymous
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. –John Shedd
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. –Indira Ghandi
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. –Carol Pearson
Topic: Vision I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. -Jack Nicklaus
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. –Seneca
Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door… You might not be home. –Jinger Heath
One may have good eyes and yet see nothing. –Italian Proverb
Topic: Wisdom A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. –Sir Francis Bacon
Topic: Hard work Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Alva Edison
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. –Joyce Chapman
Topic: Failure/Mistakes They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. –Thomas Aldrich
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. –Babe Ruth
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores. –Anonymous
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Better. –Samuel Beckett
To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. –James Allen
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. –Thomas Edison
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. –Sir Humphrey Davy It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better. –Jane Cahill Pfeiffer