Success Isms

Successisms™ 101 Passages that Define

The Principles of Success

compiled by Liz Thompson

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1. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa 2. I’ve been telling you I had a secret plan for wealth, well its time to tell you the secret. I want to be the best dad I can be & up until now, I’ve been keeping it a secret. 3. I will die a very rich man financially, but it will not compare to the richness in spirit, contribution and giving of myself helping people to see greater visions of themselves and possibilities for their life. 4. I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. - Margaret Thatcher


5. If everyone agrees with you, run. 6. Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. 7. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. -Milton Berle 8. Did you know most people will work 90,000 hours before they retire? Take 5 minutes to change your life! 9. Don’t be called out on strikes, go down swinging. 10. Watch for big problems, they disguise big opportunities. 11. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength, which can overcome adversity. -Albert Schweitzer 12. Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.


13. Never let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. 14. Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. 15. Life moves in one direction only- and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are. -Richard L. Evans 16. Leave everything a little better than you found it. 17. What the mind of man can conceive & believe, he can achieve. 18. Don’t major in minor things.


19. The secret of life isn't what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. -Norman Vincent Peale 20. Be a good listener, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. 21. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. 22. Do not listen to music, feel it Do not look at beauty, touch it Do not wonder about life, experience it 23. Rather than counting your years, make your years count. 24. What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. 25. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt


26. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 27. If you must make a mistake, at least make a new one. 28. Why not go out on a limb; isn’t that where the fruit is? 29. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr. 30. The best teacher is experience; other people’s if you’re smart.

31. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. 32. Speak only if it is an improvement on silence.


33. It’s much better to prepare and not have the opportunity than to have the opportunity and not be prepared. 34. When anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul high that the offense cannot reach me. -Rene Descartes 35. Experience gives you the test first, the lesson after. 36. Success is a journey, not a destination. 37. If you want to be successful, do what successful people do. 38. There are only two ways to live. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. -Albert Einstein 39. The road to success is always under construction and full of detours; enjoy the ride.


40. A true handicap is what we don't do with what we have, not what we can't do with what we don't have. -Christopher Brewer 41. If the grass is greener on the other side, yours may need watering. 42. Use the stumbling blocks of life as steppingstones to Success. 43. If you keep thinking the way you’ve always thought, You’ll keep doing what you’ve always done, And keep getting what you’ve always got

44. Success comes in cans; failures come in cant’s. 45. Everyone has a future. Some people plan theirs. 46. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. -Sydnes Smith


47. The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. To me, attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstance, than failure, than success, than what other people think or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It can make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is you have a choice every day regarding the attitude you will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past; we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. You are in charge of your attitude.


48. The curve of a smile can set a lot of things straight. 49. At the end of your rope? Tie a knot and hang on! 50. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward 51. You become what you think about all the time. 52. If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet. -Annot. L. Sheppard in Women's World 53. Don’t compromise yourself; you are all you’ve got. 54. When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.


55. Michael Jordan never ever said, “I’m good enough.”

56. Two minutes in a roller coaster is far more intense than 8 hours of boring meetings. 57. Good things come to those who wait, But only what’s left by those who hustle. 58.

Just Frickin’ DO IT! -T. Harv Eker

59. All you can do is all you can do, But all you can do is enough; Do all you can do. 60. How will you know the taste of victory if you don’t take the risk? 61. Everyone has a defining moment. Either you define the moment or the moment will define you.


62. We all have freedom of choice, but you will never have freedom of consequences. Choose wisely. 63. Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather 64. Set it into motion; Take a little love and set it into motion; Do some more think a little less. 65. To be appreciated, all you have to do is appreciate. 66. Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. -Vince Lombardi


67. Memories: Enjoying the richness of each experience in the spirit of the moment in which it was created. 68. Progress is not created by contented people. 69. The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the obstacles that an individual had to overcome to achieve their goals. -Bill Phillips 70. The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep running. 71. How poor we truly are when we measure wealth in monetary terms; overlooking the true value of ourselves and those we love. -Kelly Comeau 72. A good thing to remember and a better thing to do, is to work with the construction gang and not the wrecking crew. 73. It doesn't take a lot of muscle to give a heart a lift.


74. Nothing happens unless first a dream. -Carl Sandburg 75. It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. 76. I do not know WHAT the future holds, but I do know WHO holds the future. 77. Success is not measured by what one brings, but rather by what one leaves. 78. Yesterday's lessons and experiences must be used wisely today to create a better tomorrow. 79. You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. 80. I believe in faithfulness. 81. You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you'd rather be. -Dexter Yager


82. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. -John F. Kennedy 83. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -George Bernard Shaw

84. You can't change the wind, you can however adjust your sails. 85. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. -Roger Staubach 86. The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. -Charles M. Schwab 87. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy


88. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. -Ronald E. Osborn 89. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. -Sam Ewig 90. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. -Dale Carnegie 91. Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. -Bernard M. Baruch 92. Today’s preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.


93. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi 94. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. -Dale Carnegie 95. The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. -John Ruskin 96. Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. -Kahlil Gibran


97. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 98. Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands. -Zig Ziglar 99. Unless one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. -Goethe 100. It is better to wear out than to rust out. -Richard Cumberland


101. 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


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