Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 157

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
 Jesse Jackson
When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
 Sam Shepard
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).
 Charles Kettering
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.
 Nicholas A. Christakis
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.
 Marvin L. Cohen
How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.
 C. F. Powell
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
 Fredrik Bajer
For so long I hid behind the blonde hair and the blue eyes. Now I feel like I've done it, I've done what I set out to achieve, now I can just go back to being me.
 Jodie Marsh
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
 Donald Rumsfeld
I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.
 DJ Khaled
Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.
 Charles Stanley
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
 Harvey Milk
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
 Phil McGraw
Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
 Mike Michalowicz
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
 Aleksandar Hemon
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
 Edmund Hillary
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.