Who Are The Winners of Life Worth Knowing and Modeling?

Successful  Individuals From The World At Large Espouse Successful Notions

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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." 

From Lincoln and the Civil War In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all."

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." 

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs-even though checkered by failure than to take rank with these poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much. Be wise, they live in the gray twilight that know not of victory, nor defeat. Nor true sorrow nor true love."

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

From Crime and Punishment

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

 

From Don Quixote's Man of La Mancha

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "

"Those who know, do not speak, those who speak, do not know."

"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty."

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

"Don`t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can`t cross a chasm in two small steps."

"The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there."

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine." 

From The Fountainhead

"If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out."

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."

"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful."

"There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

"My principal business consists of giving commercial value to the brilliant, but misdirected, ideas of others.... Accordingly, I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it." 

"We need men who can dream of things that never were."

John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963

Contemporaries Whom I Have Listen To and Learned From.....And You Might To