August Quotes

SOCRATES THE GREAT

8/1"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be. What is once welldone, is well done forever." - Henry David Thoreau

8/2"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe incircumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get upand look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."- George Bernard Shaw

8/3"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the sureststepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie

8/4"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right." - HenryFord

8/5"He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great." - HermanMelville

8/6"Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others areloafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." -William A. Ward

8/7"Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are." - Jim Rohn

8/8"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and youwill be drawn toward it. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

8/9"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

8/10"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

8/11"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - WinstonChurchill

8/12"The real secret to success is enthusiasm." - Walter Chrysler

8/13"Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked whileothers idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced thevaluable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose." - GrenvilleKleiser

8/14"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Basil King

8/15"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." -Sugar Ray Robinson

8/16"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit onthe one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from awinning touchdown." - Ross Perot

8/17"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success becausethey don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determinedto." - George E. Allen

8/18"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction thatrepels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If youadmire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction thatdraws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that youwant to be like." - Brian Tracy

8/19"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins

8/20"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people." - Stanley Marcus

8/21"One half of life is luck, the other half is discipline and that's the important half.For without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck." - Carl Zuckmeyter

8/22"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin

8/23"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day whenyou lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do andyou've done it." - Margaret Thatcher

8/24"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - WillRogers

8/25"When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so Idid ten times more work." - Bernard Shaw

8/26"Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their handsin their pockets." - Zig Ziglar

8/27"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - E. JosephCossman

8/28"I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

8/29"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's betterabilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take acalculated risk and to act." - Maxwell Maltz

8/30"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things broughttogether." - Vincent van Gogh

8/31"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards ofsuccess." - Rob Gilbert