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Success Quotes ~ Optimism

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
Calvin Coolidge

"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
Henry Rollins

Success Quotes ~ Change

“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”
- James Yorke

“In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.”
- Unknown

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”
- Pearl Buck

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
- Douglas Adams

Success Quotes - Management

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."
- John Le Caré

"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
- Agha Hasan Abedi

"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
- John D. Rockefeller

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."
- Paul Dickson

Success Quotes ~ Attitude

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." 
- Confucius

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." 
- William James

"Become a possibilitarian.  No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there." 
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools." 
- Napoleon

Success quotes ~ Opportunity

"A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved."
- Hindu Proverb

"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one." 
- Mark Twain

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman

"When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."  - John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

Success Quotes ~ Teamwork

"A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others."
- Anonymous

"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."
- Tibetan Proverb

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
- Henry Ford

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
- Andrew Carnegie

Success Quotes ~ Problems

"I don't want to be just a voice on the phone. I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship. That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn't get adversarial. We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out."
- Wayne Huizenga

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
- Abraham Maslow

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds."
- Norman Vincent Peale

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein

Success Quotes ~ Leadership

"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."
Everett Dirksen

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-John Quincy Adams

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
-Rosalynn Carter

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
-Susan B Anthony

Success Quotes ~ Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

- Benjamin Franklin

Success quotes ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

- Abraham Lincoln