Quotes About Success

* Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Ward Babson

* Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man.
Frederick Edwin Smith

* You gain strength, experience, and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

* Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

* All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

* The victory o£ success is half won when one gains the habit of work.
Sarah Knowles Bolton

* Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistance and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

* You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Anonymous

* Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

* I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
Julius Irving

* Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

* The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao-Tzu

* Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

* I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
Woodrow T. Wilson

* Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

* Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

* Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Struther Burt

* Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

* Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 

Famous Quotes About Character

* A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock.
C. Simmons

* You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
James D. Miles

* Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

* Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

* Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Robert Freeman

* 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.
Helen Adams Keller

* Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
Robert Quillen

* The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

* The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
William R. Inge

* Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

* Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre.
Dr. Frank Crane

*You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Ronald Reagan

* Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.
Anonymous

* Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
Horace Greeley

* Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

* 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.
Helen Adams Keller

* Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
Robert Quillen

* The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

* The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
William R. Inge

* Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

* Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre.
Dr. Frank Crane

*You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Ronald Reagan

* Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will.
Leo J. Muir

* If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles.
Anonymous

* Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.
Jean-Paul Sartre

* In thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty
William Shakespeare

* It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel

* Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

* Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauerv

* What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

* Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
R.C. Samsel 

* The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.

* Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.
Dale Carnegie

* Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

* You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Ronald Wilson Reagan

* He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci 

Famous Inspiring Quotes About Strength

* Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
Beverly Sills

* Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.
Coventry Patmore

* Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

* Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

* You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

* And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

* It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard

* Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

* Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

* I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison

* If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
Erik Erikson

* When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

* Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

* I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt

* Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

* I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison

Spiritual Inspiration - Wholeness and spiritual strength ... 

Quotes About Peace

* Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
John F. Kennedy

* May you move all of your mountains, and disturb the peace by adding to it.
Carol Horos

* Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B Johnson

* Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel

* There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Woodrow Wilson

* At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

* All we are saying is give peace a chance...
John Lennon

* Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.
Dalai Lama

* Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen

* Peace, like charity, begins at home.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

* Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away.
Robert Fulghum

* If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

* If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

* The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
Desiderius Erasmus

* The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

* This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim

* Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Famous Love Quotes

* True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Anonymous

* Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit.
Khalil Gibra

* I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
Willam Shakespeare

* Love is a wonderful thing. You never have to take it away
From one person to give it to another. There's always more than enough to go around.
Pamela de Roy

* To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William M. Thackeray

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Vipin Sharma

* Love isn't just for the smart of talented, but for all the amimals God created.
Sarah Wonders

* I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.
Shirley Bassey

* No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Unknown

* To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler, Life and love

* My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I'd do anything for you And my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.
Sarah McLachlan

* May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
L.O. Baird

* Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

* Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

* Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
J. Isham

* The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo

* Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm

* There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand

* Love is an act of endless forgiveness A tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

* The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

* The courses of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

* To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. 

William M. Thackeray

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Vipin Sharma

* Love isn't just for the smart of talented, but for all the amimals God created.
Sarah Wonders

* I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.
Shirley Bassey

* No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Unknown

* To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler, Life and love

Friendship Quotes

* You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Woodrow Wilson

* It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.
Proverb

* What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

* The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon

* There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hillaire Belloc

* I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino

* A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha

* Friendship is Love without his wings!"
Lord Byron

* A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

* Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero (44 B.C.)

Friendship needs a diet of mutual understanding and camaraderie.

* There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

* True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

* Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

* There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.
Kathy Kay Benudiz

* Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle

* A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell

* One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides (408 B.C.)

* A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller (1732)

* My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol 

* The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.
Robert Alan

* It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade. . . .
George Matthew Adams

* Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

* A friend loves at all times.
Proverbs 17, 17

* A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil the Great

Achievement Quotes

* Press on- nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

* The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.
C.S. Lewis

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

* There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements.
Anonymous

* Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
Brian Tracy

* Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Alfred North Whitehead

   

* 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
* You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
* Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.
Jean-Paul Sartre
* There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Dr. Theodor Reik
* Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George Smith Patton, Jr.
* Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Frederick Pierce

* The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napolean Hill
* A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
William Sharp
* Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
* We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer
* Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.
Hugh Nibley
* Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.
Leo J. Muir
* Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
* We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
General Dwight David Eisenhower
* What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.
Benjamin F. Fairless
* Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton

Quotes About Life

* The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 
Bertrand Russell

* Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Mary

* Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

* Life is relationships; the rest is just details.
Gary Smalley

* Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent

* Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

* The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca

* Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites

* Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

* Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere

* Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

* Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville

* Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Allan Bennett

* Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.
Michael Vance

* The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch

* Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
George William Curtis

* One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather

* Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle

* Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown

* People living deeply have no fear of death.
Annais Nin

* The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

* Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh