Inspirations

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

- Aristotle

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

- David Bailey

It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

- Winston Churchill

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

- Walt Disney

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

- George Eliot

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered wit h your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

- Epictetus

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

- George Fabricius

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent Van Gogh

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

- A. P. Gouthey

We will either find a way, or make one.

- Hannibal

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

- Mark Victor Hansen

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as importa nt or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

- Gabriel Heatter

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

- Napoleon Hill

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

- Etty Hilsum

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the eart h a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

- C. Hoppe

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

- Elbert Hubbard

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

- Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

- Samuel Johnson

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

- Benjamin Jowett

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- Charles F. Kettering

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

- Jack Kinder

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

- Charles Kuralt

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

- Alan Lakein

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

- Orison Swett Marden

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

- Foster C. Mcclellan

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

- Alfred A. Montapert

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

- George Orwell

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

- Ovid

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

- Mal Pancoast

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

- Pablo Picasso

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

- Plutarch

The journey is the reward.

- Chinese Proverb

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Otto Rank

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

- Lady Stella Reading

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) Y ou continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

- Anthony Robbins

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Eddie Robinson

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

- Dr. Jonas Salk

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

- George Bernard Shaw

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

- Samuel Smiles

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's not the having, it's the getting.

- Elizabeth Taylor

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

- Margaret Thatcher

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

- Brian Tracy

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

- Source Unknown

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

- Source Unknown

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

- Source Unknown

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

- Barbara Walters

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

- Earl Warren

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

- Dennis Weaver

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

- Simone Weil

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

- John Wooden

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

- Julia Woodruff

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

- Zig Ziglar

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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 8: Believe in Yourself

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered wit h your old nonsense.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

We will either find a way, or make one.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the eart h a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

The journey is the reward.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

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