Success Quotes

SUCCESS The Fight Between Two Wolves An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me . . . it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.” “The same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.” They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied. . . “The one you feed.” Notable Failures Creative and imaginative people are often not recognized by their contemporaries. Even more often, they are not recognized in school by their teachers. History if full of examples. Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. Beethoven’s music teacher one said of him, “As a composer, he is hopeless.” When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything. F. W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he “didn’t have enough sense.” A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had “no good ideas.” Caruso’s music teacher told him, “You can’t sing. You have no voice at all.” The director of the Imperial Opera in Vienna told Madame Schumann-Heink that she would never be a singer and advised her to buy a sewing machine. Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. Werner von Braun flunked ninth-grade algebra. Admiral Richard E. Byrd had been retired from the Navy as “unfit for service” until he flew over both Poles. Louis Pasteur was rated as “mediocre” in chemistry when he attended the Royal College. Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a captain and came out as a private. Louisa May Alcott was told by an editor that she could never write anything that had popular appeal. Fred Waring was one rejected for high school Chorus. Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. --Dr. Milton E Larson The best way to predict the future is to create it. --Peter Drucker Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. --Albert Schweitzer We make a living by what we get. . . but we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill Circle of Life At age 4 . . .success is . . . not peeing in your pants At age 12. . .success is . . .having friends At age 16. . .success is . . .having a driver’s license At age 25 . . .success is . . .having sex when married At age 35 . . .success is . . .having money At age 50. . .success is . . .having money At age 60. . .success is . . .having sex when married At age 70. . .success is . . .having a driver’s license At age 75. . .success is . . .having friends At age 80. . .success is . . .not peeing in your pants Things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. --Muhammad Yunus If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. --Chinese proverb Money will buy A bed . . . . . . . but not sleep. Books . . . . . . . but not brains. Food . . . . . . . . but not appetite. Finery . . . . . . . . but not beauty. A house . . . . . but not a home. Medicine . . . . . but not health. Luxuries . . . . . . but not culture. Amusements. . . but not happiness. Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life. --John Wooden Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame, but for greatness because greatness is determined by service. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My Wage I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is a just employer, Life gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid. --Jessie B. Rittenhouse We are a success: When we have lived well, laughed often and loved much. When we gain the respect of intelligent people, and the love of children. When we fill a niche and accomplish a task. When we leave the world better than we found it, whether by an improved idea, a perfect poem or a rescued soul. We are successful if we never lack appreciation of earth’s beauty or fail to express it. If we look for the best in others, and give the best we have. --Robert Louis Stevenson Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like you do when nobody’s watching. --Satchel Paige I shall pass this way but once. Any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me not defer nor neglect it. For I shall not pass this way again. --Steven Grellet Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. --African proverb If I am through learning, I am through. --John Wooden Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand. --Chinese proverb Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path. My luck. . . I was waiting at the airport when my ship came in. --Henny Youngman Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. --Henry Ford If you don’t know where you are going, you could wind up someplace else. --Yoggi Berra Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson .