Success Motivator I

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

It is no use for one to stand in the shade and complain that the sun does not shine upon him. He must come out resolutely on the hot and dusty field where all are compelled to antagonize with stubborn difficulties, and pertinaciously strive until he conquers, if he would derserve to be crowned. ~ E.L Magoon


When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ~ Saul David Alinsky


The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~ Vince Lombardi


To fly, we have to have resistance. ~ Maya Lin


The price of greatness is responsibility. ~ Winston Churnchill


Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ~ Horace


Progress always involve risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~ Fredick Wilcox


The secret joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ~ Pearl Buck


Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. ~ Bernadette Devlin


Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ~ Demosthenes


I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright


You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~ James A. Froude


Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~ George R. Kirkpatrick


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S Eliot

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. ~ Ovid


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


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney


One of the rarest things a man ever does is to do the best he can. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw


The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. ~ Richard R. Grant


If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. ~ Thomas Edison


Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. ~ B. C. Forbes


The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet. ~ Lao Tze


Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~ Swami Sivananda


If man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.



The glory of success is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.