Quotes by American Authors - Page 45

Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
James Lane Allen
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.
Cardinal James Gibbons
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go you gotta go.
Lillian Carter
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.
Theodore Roosevelt
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
Ralph Kiner
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.
William L. O'Neill
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
James A. Worsham
If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.
Donald M. Kendall
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Jennings Bryan
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
Louis L'Amour
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
Edgar Watson Howe
If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.
John B. Gough
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Edward B. Butler
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
Walter Chrysler
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
George Matthew Adams
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
Thomas N. Carruther
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time then everything is easy.
Thomas A. Buckner
Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.
James Caan
Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts " probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
Ilka Chase
I feel that one must deliberate then act must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
Jennifer Capriati
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab
That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.
Mary Field Belenky
Whatever your grade or position if you know how and when to speak and when to remain silent your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Ralph C. Smedley
The way to rise is to obey and please.
Ben Johnson
Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.
Susan RoAne
Networking is an enrichment program not an entitlement program.
Susan RoAne
Remember the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.
Macrina Wiederkehr
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it greater understanding growing compassion came to me.
Catharine Marshall
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.
Benjamin Franklin
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work learning from failure.
General Colin L. Powell