100 Success and Opportunity Quotes for your everyday life
By: Teronie J. Donaldson
1. “You are a composite of the 5 people you spend the most time with” Jack Canfield 2. “STAY ALERT. You can learn by watching” Anonymous 3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit” Aristotle 4. “The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get” David J. Schwartz 5. “When one exudes greatness, one obtains great rewards” Shantae Wilson 6. “Long range goals keep you from being frustrated by short term failures” J.C. Penney 7. “Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes” Ralph Waldo Emerson 8. “Every decision is an opportunity to gain some control over your future” Anonymous 9. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine” Anonymous 10. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail” Benjamin Franklin 11. “Most people who sit around waiting for their ship to come in often find it is a hardship” Anonymous 12. “Our Lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss” Benjamin Button (from the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) 13. “Every Problem is an opportunity in disguise” Adams 14. “When you start doing what you love you’ll never work another day in your life” Bryan Tracy 15. “I cannot tell you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure, which is try to please everybody” Herbert Bayard Swope
16. “A wise man hears one word and understands two” Jewish Proverb 17. “The greatest danger to human potential is your comfort zone” Anonymous 18. “Do not wait to strike while the iron is hot, make it hot by striking” William Sprague 19. “There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going” Beverly Sills 20. “You miss 100% of the shots you never take” Wayne Gretsky 21. “The difference between successful people and failures is that successful people make a habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do” Bryan Tracy 22. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds” Frances Bacon 23. “The future belongs to those people who see possibilities before they become obvious” John Sulley 24. “Be, Do, Have - Be committed, Do what it takes, Have what you want” Anonymous 25. “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” Winston Churchill 26. “Failure is not the only punishment for laziness, there is also the success of others” Jules Renard 27. “It’s hard to fail, but it is worse to never have tried to succeed” Theodore Roosevelt 28. “If you are going to do something do it with 100% commitment” Anonymous 29. “Bloom where you are planted” Terry J. Lundgren 30. “ A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do” Bob Dylan
31. “Progress or Death - if you are not getting better you are getting worse” Omar Johnson - Entrepreneur 32. “If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door” Milton Berret 33. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly” John F. Kennedy 34. “When patterns are broken new worlds emerge” Tuli Kupferberg 35. “Many of life’s failures are people who do not realize how close they were to success when they gave up” Thomas Edison 36. “Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you” Madeline Bridges 37. “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter” Dan Reeves 38. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther” J.P. Morgan 39. “The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life” Oprah Winfrey 40. “Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat” Napoleon Hill 41. “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going” Earl Nightingale 42. “A man’s reach must exceed his grasp” Anonymous 43. “A problem is a chance for you to do your very best” Duke Ellington 44. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement in any field” Denis Waitley
45. “It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings and new forms of expression” Eric Hoffer 46. “If you want to increase your success rate double your failure rate” Thomas Watson Sr. 47. “Surround yourself with only those people who are going to lift you higher” Oprah Winfrey 48. “Your future is too valuable to waste time where there is no future” Bryan Tracy 49. “We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity” Walter E. Cole 50. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage, if you want to conquer fear; do not sit at home and think about it … go out and get busy” Anonymous 51. “Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first” Frederick Wilcox 52. “The ability to concentrated and use your time well is everything. If you want to succeed in business or almost anywhere for that matter” Lee Iacocca 53. “Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take what is only worth having” Anonymous 54. “Follow your instincts; that’s where wisdom manifests itself” Oprah Winfrey 55. “He who makes money pleases God” Mohammed 56. “Don’t complain, Don’t explain” Anonymous 57. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are” Theodore Roosevelt
58. “It is not what you have, but what you do with what you have that will determine your success or failure” Abraham Maslow 59. “Success is often achieved by those who didn’t know that failure is inevitable” Coco Chanel 60. “The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals the faster you achieve them” Bryan Tracy 61. “You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration” James Allen 62. “Winners are losers with new attitudes” David Byrne 63. “The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to continually fear that you’ll make one” Elbert Hubbard 64. “It is not where you start, it’s where you finish that counts” Zig Ziglar 65. “The errors you make in today’s good times, create tomorrows bad times, and the wise things you do in today’s bad times create tomorrows good times” Spencer Johnson 66. “Kaizen” (constant improvement) Japanese Philosophy 67. “Dress right. You can afford not to” American institute of men’s and boy’s wear slogan 68. “Look important, it helps you think important” Anonymous 69. “Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing” Thomas Jefferson 70. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them” Walt Disney 71. “A cup that is full is useless only when a cup is empty is it useful” Martial Arts Adage
72. “People who are lazy and lack discipline are often the people with the worst health and worst wealth” Rich Dad (Robert Kiyosaki) 73. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out” Robert Collier 74. “Most misfortunes are the result of misused time” Napoleon Hill 75. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is right today” Chinese Proverb 76. “All resource we need are in the mind” Theodore Roosevelt 77. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind” Winston Churchill 78. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized” Sun Tzu 79. “The way you think about time and think about yourself will affect everything that happens to you the rest of your life” B. Eugene Griessman 80. “Never, never pass up on an opportunity to meet new people. Your antenna should be up your whole life” Harvey McKay 81. “I don’t know what I’ll be doing a year from now, but whatever it is undoubtedly will be based on the contacts I made today” Harvey McKay 82. “Inaction is the greatest risk of all” Anonymous 83. “Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now” Anonymous 84. “It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Think is passive get used to acting outside the box” Timothy Ferris 85. “Make mistakes of ambition, not mistakes of sloth” Niccolo Machiavelli
86. “If you must play, decide on 3 things at the start… The rules of the game The stakes and The quitting time” Chinese Proverb 87. “Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons” Anonymous 88. “Life without risk is not worth living” Chuck Lindberg 89. “The thing we ought to fear most is the regret of having not tried” John Izzo 90. “We should count each day as a separate life” Seneca 91. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” Anonymous 92. “Self trust is the 1st secret of success” Ralph Waldo Emerson 93. “Frequently ask yourself… “What’s the best use of my time and energy right now?” Anonymous 94. “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome” Navy Seal Credo 95. “Everything we want is on the other side of fear” Farah Grey 96. “If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everybody has lived” C.S. Lewis 97. “The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others” Fortune Cookie 98. “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do” Martha Grimes 99. “I stalk my goals. I chase my dreams. I’m a private investigator to my own plans ... I take action and I’m ready to prance” Eulette M. Barnes - Entrepreneur
100. “A person who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints” Anonymous