Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Og Mandino

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Og Mandino

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

Og Mandino

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Og Mandino

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Og Mandino

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

Og Mandino

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

Og Mandino

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Mailer

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Oscar de la Renta

Be the designer of your own destiny.

Orson Welles

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

Orison Swett Marden

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

Orison Swett Marden

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

Orison Swett Marden

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

Orison Swett Marden

Put yourself in your customer's place.

Orison Swett Marden

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Orison Swett Marden

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

Orison Swett Marden

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Orison Swett Marden

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.