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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Sep 10, 2025
A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
The harder I work the more I live.
All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the change you want to see.
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
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, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Well done is better than well said.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.