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More Quotes on Success

March 14, 2008

“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” (Benjamin Disraeli)

“By the time we make it, we’ve had it.” (Malcolm Forbes)

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” (Woody Allen)

 “Knowing what you want is the first step in getting it.” (Louise Hart)

Quotes on Fear

August 18, 2007

“Do the thing you fear most, and the death of fear is certain.” (Mark Twain)

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” (Andrew Carnegie)

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” (Alfred Hitchcock)

“In time we hate that which we often fear.” (William Shakespeare)

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” (André Gide)

Quotes on Progress

June 27, 2007

“Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next step.” (Mohandas Gandhi)

“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.” (John Stuart Mill)

“Change is not always progress……A fever of newness has been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.” (Henry Ford)

“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and regression, of evolution and dissolution.” (Goethe)

“The impulse to escape an untenable situation often prompts human beings not to shrink back but to plunge ahead.” (Eric Hoffer)

“Our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.” (George Eliot)

Quotes on Riches

June 11, 2007

“The wise man does not deem himself undeserving of any of the gifts of fortune. He does not love riches, but he would rather have them; he does not admit them to his heart, but to his house, and he does not reject the riches he has, but he keeps them and wishes them to supply ampler material for exercising his virtue.” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

“It must be great to be rich and let the other fellow keep up appearances.” (Kin Hubbard)

”I am indeed rich since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.” (Edward Gibbon)

“The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.” (St. John Chrysostom)

“Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity, than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.” (Proverbs 28:6)

“If a man would guide his life by true philosophy, he will find ample riches in a modest livelihood enjoyed with a tranquil mind.” (Lucretius)

“If you can actually count your money, then you are not a really rich man.” (J. Paul Getty)

Quotes on Success

April 9, 2007

“I have always been more afraid of failing than hopeful of success.” (Samuel Johnson)

“A reputation for success tends to be self-fulfilling. Equally, failure feeds on itself.” (Henry Kissinger)

“Knowing what you want is the first step to getting it.” (Louise Hart)