Success Sayings

S. Truett Cathy
Need to be motivated? All of us have this need from time to time. So, return often to read and reflect on new sayings and use some in your articles and speeches.

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Time now to get motivated. 

Read and reflect on these profound thoughts.

A fellow who does things that count doesn't usually stop to count them

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jr.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly or it vanishes.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power - Martin Luther King Jr.

Ambition without determination has no destination

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live - Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out

The fellow who has an abundance of pull gets along very well without push

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past - Thomas Jefferson

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well being is always ahead - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear - E. H. Harriman

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration - Nido Qubein

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time - Robert Anthony

What makes a life dreary is want of motive - George Eliot

People become what they expect themselves to become

Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others

Life isn't what happens to us. It's how we perceive what happens to us

To change our lives, we must first change our minds.

Your mind can hold only one thought at a time make it a positive and constructive one

Master your present, or your past will master your future

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece - Dale West

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do - Benjamin Franklin

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice - George Eliot

It's a good idea to take an interest in the future -- that's where you will spend the rest of your life.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does - James A. Worsham

The man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do not worry - Charles F. Deems

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if  we but think we can - George Matthew Adams

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself - Sir Alexander Patterson

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn  briefly - Stephen Covey 

Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds are

Success comes in doing the common things uncommonly well

Forget the past; no man has yet backed into success

The man who gets ahead is the man who does more than is necessary -- and keeps on doing it. 

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions - Daniel Boorstin

Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open - Thomas Dewar

And so the time has come to un-quo the status

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources within them. There are deep wells of strength that are seldom used - Richard E. Boyd

Our past is not our potential - Marilyn Ferguson

All people are created with the equal ability to become unequal

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can, he will never do all he can - Henry Drummond  

Potential is an unlimited source of energy yet to be fully discovered - Anonymous

Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired at night.

The world is full of cactus, but you don't have to sit on it  -  Will Foley

As long as a man imagines that he cannot do a certain thing, it is impossible for him to do it. - Benedict Spinoza 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William J. Bryan

The people who get on in this world are the people who  get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can't find them, make them. -  George Bernard Shaw

Everyman is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust

Success is a ladder which cannot be climbed with hands in your pocket.

Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success  -  Henry Ford

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes  - Benjamin Disraeli

Find a need and fill it. – Ruth Stafford Peale

Self-trust is the first secret of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. – Malcolm Forbes

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can. – Matthew Adams

A wise man will make more opportunity than he finds. – Francis Bacon

Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads. - Henry Miller  

He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller

If you want to succeed, you must make your opportunities as you go. - John B. Gough

Under normal periods any man's success hinges 5% on what others do for him and 95% on what he does for himself  - James A. Worsham

Attitude is the reflection of a person and our world mirrors our attitude. - Earl Nightingale

A sharp tongue and a brilliant mind are never found in the same skull. 

The future never gets better by hope, its gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals. - Jim Rohn




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