Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

Andrew Carnegie

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Andrew Carnegie

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves.

Aly Raisman

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.

Anthony de Mello

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

Anthony de Mello

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anne Sweeney

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

Amy Grant

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

Alvin Ailey

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Alva Myrdal

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

Anne Sexton

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Anne Sexton

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

Anne Sexton

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Anne Sexton

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Rice

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Anne Rice

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Anna Freud

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.