Insights Of Success II

When you can think yesterday without a regret and of tomorrow without a fear, you are on the road to success.


You are on the road to success when you realize that failure is merely a detour.


For a successful man the difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labour, but the ones that you dislike, or the ones that you do not love.


Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.


Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.


Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.



Never give up, there are chances and chances.


Achievement, I have found, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.


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


To be successful, you have to be lucky, or a little mad or very talented or to find yourself in a rapid-growth field.


When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life: now that I am old, I know that it is.


The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.


The art of winning in business is in working hard -- not taking things too seriously.


The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up and work.


The amount of money in your bank account is not the true measure of your success. If you are honest, fair, tolerant, kindly, charitable to others and well-behaved, you are a success, no matter how small your bank account.



Success depends upon a person's getting along with some people and ahead of others.


Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.


One of the biggest troubles with success these days is that recipe is about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.


Prosperity is the fruit of labour. It begins with saving money.


Life lets us ask for what we want, but gives us only what we deserve.


It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.


It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Insights Of Success I

The success family: The father of success is work. The mother of success is ambition. The oldest son is common sense. Some of the other children are : perseverance, honesty, thoroughness, foresight, enthusiasm and cooperation and you will be able to get along pretty well with success.


The young man who would succeed must identify his interests with those of his employer and the road to the top is open as it never was before. Way to the top is by persistent, intelligent hard work.


There are three classes of people in this world: the "I will's", and the "I won'ts" and the "I can't's". The first accomplish everything, the second oppose everything and the third fail in everything.


There is no one, say another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life, but when she does find him no tready to receive her, she walks in through the door and flies out of the window.


Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.



The way to avoid mistakes is to gain experience. The way to gain experience is to make mistakes.



The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.



The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.



Three men were laying bricks, the first men was asked,"What are you doing?" He answered,"Laying some bricks." The second man was asked,"What are you working for?" He answered,"Five dollars a day." The third man was asked,"What are you doing?" He answered,"I am helping to build a great temple." Which man are you?


To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.


We will either find a way, or make one.


What is easy is seldom excellent.


The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.


The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.


When the load feels heavy, it's a sign you're climbing.


When one door closes; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us next door.


The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other kind finds an excuse.


The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of strong will.


The power that signals success is a power of your thinking and doing.

Quotes About Learning

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer


Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford



If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban


You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford


I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone


You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky


The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb



Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln


The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~Mohammed


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill


The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler


There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.