"Personal Growth Quotes"
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"True leaders are pro-active, not re-active."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Andy Stavros --- Oklahoma
"Never take a NO from someone
Who never had the power to say YES in the first place."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Angela N. --- Montana
"Success - It is not the position you stand,
But the direction in which you look."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gajan Krishna --- Ontario, Canada
"In the business world, we are being paid in two coins-the experience and the money. Take the experience first, then the money will come along."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mayette Aparis --- Philippines
"Each new day presents us with the opportunity to live as though we never lived before. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is promissory. Live today. That's all you've got."
Copyright © 2001 Babatunde Ayoola Fajimi
"If you always do what you've always done,
You'll always be where you are now."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Misty H. --- Florida
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing;
For silence is a friend who will never betray you."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Randy M. --- New Mexico
"He who hesitates is lost."
Dad --- Submitted by Gary Navratil --- California
"Quality is remembered, long after price is forgotten."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by W.U. --- Ontario, Canada
"One of the most difficult and rewarding tasks in the world today is finding true friendship. When found, it is certainly one of the greatest achievements earned throughout your lifetime!"
Copyright © 2001 Randy Medina
"Never regret a day in your life.
Good days give you experience,
But both are essential to life.
All are God's blessing."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mayette Aparis --- Philippines
"Quantity never means quality;
Quality comes in small numbers."
Written by Immaculute D. --- Florida
"Success is to stand in the presence of GOD unashamed."
Author Unknown
--- Submitted by L.Narendar Singh Raj Purohit --- Bangalore, India
"The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven."
Og Mandino --- Submitted by Chetan Chopra --- Washington
"Success is simple arithmetic:
Possibility = reality when you subtract 'T' from the word 'CAN'T'"
Copyright © 2001 James J. Sparks
"A talentless person with heart is more valuable than a heartless person with talent."
Copyright © 2001 Tony Powell
"It is a good thing to be specialized in what you do. Don't show off beyond your level of competence by doing things that are not familiar to you."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nora Magnus --- Singapore
"It is the wise person who can learn from tools, rather than wait for tools from the wise."
Copyright © 1996 Greg Jones
"Never mistake kindness for weakness."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Barb T. --- Arizona
"Never let others control your life. You only get one chance at it and you, and only you, will be held accountable for it."
Copyright © 2001 Yolunder Norfleet
"A life without risk is no life at all."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tiffany Brown --- Georgia
"Do not expect to accomplish your dreams if you're not willing to help others accomplish their's."
Kaughee Vill --- Submitted by J.W. --- Colorado
"If you want your dreams to come true, wake up."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikram K. --- UP, India
"If you continue to work hard, success will follow you."
Author Unknown ---- Submitted by JP Miklus --- Ohio
"It's not the adversity you will face alone,
But how you will respond to that adversity,
For that will determine your success or failure,
And most importantly, your character."
Copyright © 2001 Brendan Kirsch
"By far, you are your toughest competitor. You must fight yourself to keep going, to keep breathing, to get through the pain, but when you are able to conquer yourself, you can beat anyone."
Copyright © 2001 Devan Ohl
"Men of genius are admired.
Men of wealth are envied.
Men of power are feared,
But only men of character are trusted."
Zig Ziglar --- Submitted by Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng --- Ahanti Region, Ghana
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity."
Dr. O. A. Battista --- Sent in by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania
"If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home; If you are not enthusiastic about doing that, you are not going to be successful."
Donald M. Kendall --- Submitted by Chetan Chopra --- Washington
"You can change the way you feel by changing the way you think."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mamta Kumari --- Bihar, India
"Strength plus power equals success. The strength of your heart's desire plus the power of your mind's imagination will always lead you to success."
Copyright © 1992 Robert Proctor
WORK
"If you have work you are blessed. Work is a religion and the work place is the temple, and your job is the prayer. If you work all your problems disappear. You have food, you have a home, you have a family, you have friends etc. If you work on the work you love, it is not work, it is a recreation. If you choose the work you love, you will never have to work even one single day in your life. If you work and sweat, all your poison in your body gets burned out and you are left with a clean healthy body. If you have an ailment or sickness, get up and do some work and soon you will be cured. If you work you gain real wisdom and your life gets easier. If you work, you understand other people. If you don't have work, become a volunteer and discover the pleasure of work. If you work you leave behind a legacy, therefore, let us all get up in the morning and get to work."
Copyright © 2001 Subramaniam Masilamany
Life is more than just winning and losing,
more than just fortune and fame...
For when you believe in yourself,
and dream big...anything is possible.
Hard work, determination and a big smile are the key elements of success,
and by pouring your heart into everything you do, greater fulfillment will be yours.
Run like you've never run before. Forget about times...forget about records....pour your heart into Saturday and when it's all said and done, you can smile and say, I left it all in that smelly, bug infested park!
Copyright © 2000 Matthew D. Braun
"Sometimes, life may seem like a tunnel, endless and dark. Don't concentrate on the darkness, concentrate on the light at the light at the end, and you will succeed."
Written by Julia M. --- Georgia
"Competition:
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed;
There's so little competition."
Elbert Hubbard --- Submitted by David Martin --- Ontario, Canada
"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be;
What is once well done, is well done forever."
Henry David Thoreau --- Submitted by Kevin Hardy --- California
"If I desire to be more creative, in my lifetime,
I need to be less critical in my today."
Copyright © 2001 Scott Johnson
"When life gets tough and knocks you down,
Get back up and knock it unconscious."
Copyright © 2000 Chris Pantano
"Failure is an option, failure is also a possibility,
But failure should never be by choice."
Copyright © 2001 Chuck Norlin
"Always strive for perfection. If we strive only for excellence we will achieve only mediocrity. We can never achieve perfection; but if we strive for perfection we can achieve excellence."
Copyright © 2000 Fritz Gisler
"A dream, given a deadline, becomes a goal."
Copyright © 1997 C. Fifield
"Success is the ratio of our ability to our performance. Success is our ability to stand back after a fall or failure. Success is our ability to recover from failures. Success is in improving, thus never complete. Success is our ability to raise our targets, performance and goals. Success is in moving up and not how many valleys and peaks you encounter. Success is not a comparison between our performance or achievements versus someone else."
Copyright © 2001 Anil Popli
"Effort=Results"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by R.H. --- Florida
"Never give advice above the 3rd floor.
You might not survive the fall if it's not taken well!"
Copyright © 2001 E. Skidmore
"The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whomyou might share your completeness."
Neale Donald Walsch --- Submitted by N.G. --- Washington
"The past may have gotten you here,
But it doesn't have to ride with you forever."
Copyright © 2001 Kim Coles
"In your endeavors do not be surprised by success;
Be shocked by failure."
Copyright © 1997 CC Leatherbury
"If you want to have what people don't,
Do what people won't."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mike H. --- Selangor, Malaysia
"An individual isn't born afraid, he is conformed to be afraid.
I choose not to conform."
Copyright © 1995 John Karrys
"A person who wants to be successful should quit sleep, inattentiveness, fear, anger, laziness and should notspend much time on the work, which can be done in less time."
Copyright © 2000 Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu
"No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person. Noone comes to know himself through introspection, or in the solitude of his own personal diary. Rather, it is indialogue, in his meeting with other persons."
Paul Tournier --- Submitted by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida
"The truth often hurts, but it is the lie that leaves the scar."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Trina Barrett --- Texas
"Ten good actions will be forgotten by all
But one bad action will be remembered by all."
Copyright © 2001 Anil Popli
"The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, orthe most awards. They are the ones who care."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chetan Jain --- MA, India
"You get what you give."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jennifer Russell --- New Hampshire
"Good works are defined as doing the right things at the right time and for the right reasons."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Paula Bartley --- Oregon
"Success is not a destination.....it's an attitude!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by John Barton --- California
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
Thomas Paine --- Submitted by Gwen B. --- Ohio
"How a man handles failure defines how truly successful he can become."
Copyright © 2001 Brian Roscher
"Happiness does not depend on how much you have to enjoy
But how much you enjoy what you have."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Balasubramanian Lalitha --- California
"Don't promise what you can't deliver, but deliver what you can't promise."
Copyright © 1999 Ken Spirito
"People who can DO.
People who can't WHINE.
So start doing."
Copyright © 2001 Vedran Saciragic
"If you do not see perfection in the mirror,
You have no right to expect perfection from your neighbor."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Henry Kiong --- Singapore
"The secret to success is learning to like what you have to do."
Westley Kimball Walton --- Submitted by Kelsey D. --- New Jersey
"Nothing is possible if you think it is impossible !! Think positive & work hard. Success is always yours."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by P.T. Shaijan --- Kerala, India
"Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river."
Jackson Brown Jr. --- Submitted by Amy Wall --- Connecticut