Quotes and Sayings

Here are some Success Quotes to motivate and inspire each one of us.

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”~ Marie Currie

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” ~G. K. Chesterton

“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

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” ~ Thomas Edison

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”~ Bob Dylan

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.”~ Sir Winston Churchill

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” ~Roger Babson

“The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.” ~William Lloyd Garrison

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy - it won’t come out while you’re watching.” ~Tennessee Williams

“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.” ~Gene Fowler

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~George Smith Patton

“Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.” ~Arie de Gues:

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~Demosthenes

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill

“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.” ~Walter Cronkite

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

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ Confucius

“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.” ~Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~William Blake

“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. “~Larry King

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”~ Bruce Feirstein

“You don’t drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.”~R. Duvall

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”~ Samuel Johnson

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” ~Abraham Lincoln

I have compiled a list of quotes and sayings by Napolean Bonaparte.

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

“Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.”

“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”

“An army marches on its stomach.” This saying by Napolean tells us how astute a GENERAL he was and why he won all those wars. His insights into the workings of war was awesome.

“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” And of course he was a hopeless Romantic.

“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”

“England is a nation of shopkeepers.” He of course never foresaw that those shopkeepers will mostly be Indians, and chinese.

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” How True.

or :”What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

“Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be.”

“War is the business of barbarians.” But then, wars have been fought and wars will be fought.

He had some distasteful sayings like ,”Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”

But he still was a romantic, “I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.”
And what is a collection of Napolean Quotes if we don’t have the famous, ” The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”

Quite a number of us want some achievement in life. There are a many who don’t, and they are content with who they are, what they are. Are those who wants to achieve something better? Are those who are content better? I am not here to start a debate on that.

But for all those who value achievements in life, we have some great Achievement Quotes here.

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”~ Albert Einstein

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” ~Woodrow Wilson

“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.” ~Zig Ziglar

“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people”~ Nido Qubein

“The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” ~ Charles F. Kettering

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” ~Maureen Dowd

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~Conrad Hilton

“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” ~ Jonas Salk

Submit your own achievement quotes below.

Helen Keller was born, Helen Adams Keller on June 27, 1880 and lived till June 1, 1968. She was an American author, activist and lecturer and she was deaf blind. Helen keller was the first deafblind person to graduate from college. She was also a fine writer. She was famous for being an inspirational author and activist, dispite the fact that she was both deaf and blind from the age of 19 months.

One of Keller’s earliest pieces of writing was “The Frost King” (1891). There were allegations that this story had been plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby. An investigation into the matter revealed that Keller may have suffered from cryptomnesia, having once had Canby’s story read to her, only to forget about it, although the memory had remained hidden in her subconscious.

At the age of 23, Keller wrote her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), with help from Sullivan and her husband, John Macy. It includes letters that Keller wrote and the story of her life up to age 21.

Her spiritual autobiography, My Religion, was published in 1927 and re-issued as Light in my Darkness. It advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the controversial mystic who claimed to have witnessed the Last Judgment and second coming of Jesus Christ, and the movement named after him, Swedenborgianism.

In total, she wrote 12 books and numerous articles. [source wikipedia]

I have collected some quotes and sayings that Helen Keller left us.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”

“Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

And such motivational quote as
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

And who better than Helen Keller to have expressed this sayings, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

On Effort, she wrote:
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

With lesser sense of organs than most of us, she knew more about senses than all of us. On senses she wrote that, ” Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.”

And she had an opinion on security: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

On knowledge, she said, “It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.”

A women of strong Character, here is what she had to say about Character, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”