How To Succeed: 140 Quotations To Read And Read Again by D C Robinson - HTML preview

 

Who said it could not be done? And what great victories have they to their credit which qualify them to judge others accurately?

Time is a Master

Worker that heals the

wounds of temporary

defeat, and equalizes the inequalities and rights the wrongs of the world.

There is nothing

"Impossible" with time!

 

No person has a chance to enjoy permanent success until they begin to look in a mirror for the real cause of all their mistakes.

 

 

If  you must slander someone, don't speak it, but write it.

Write it in the sand, near the water's edge!

 

Don't be afraid of a little opposition.  Remember that the “Airplane” of Success generally takes off against the Wind of Adversity, not with it!

 

Provide more service than that for which you are paid and you will soon be paid for more than you provide. The law of "Increasing Returns" takes care
of this.

 

 

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson you could not have learned without it.

Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats.

 

If you do not believe in cooperation, look what happens to an automobile that loses a wheel.

 

 

People cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation.

As soon as you once come up to a person's limitations, it is all over with them.

 

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy endeavor until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

 

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

 

You are half-beaten the minute you begin to feel  sorry for yourself, or to spin an alibi with which you attempt to explain away your defects.

 

Seek the advice of people who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Praise alone
will not bring the improvement you need.

 

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

 

 

If you cannot do great things yourself, remember that you may do small things in a great way.

 

A winner never quits, and  a quitter never wins!

 

 

One of the most destructive evils is slanderous talk. It breaks human hearts and  ruins reputations with a ruthlessness unknown in connection with all other evils.

 

 

The best rose bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

 

By and large, there is no such thing as “Something for Nothing.”

In the long run you get exactly what you pay for, whether you are buying an automobile or a loaf of bread.

 

If you can run a losing race without blaming your loss on someone else, you have bright prospects of success further down the
road in life.

 

No position in life can be secure, and no achievement can be permanent unless built upon truth and justice.

 

Do not “tell” the world what you can do – “show” it!

 

 

The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

 

 

Any horse can "start" a race, but only the thoroughbred horse will “finish."

 

Every line a person writes, and every act in which they indulge, and every word they utter serves as inescapable evidence of the nature of what is deeply imbedded in their own heart, a confession that they cannot deny.

"Yes, they succeeded, but they almost failed!"

No person has ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find themself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Remember that when you make an appointment with another person you assume the responsibility of punctuality, and that you do have not the right to be a single minute late.

In every person there has been deposited the seed of a great future, but that seed will never germinate, much less grow to maturity, except through the providing of useful service.

 

You are fortunate if you have learned  the difference between temporary defeat and failure; more fortunate still, if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Isn’t it strange that we fear most that which never happens? That we destroy our initiative by the fear of defeat, when in reality, defeat is a most useful stimulus and should be accepted as such.

 

No person can become a great leader unless they have the milk

of human kindness in

their own heart, and lead by suggestion and kindness, rather than
by force.

 

 

If you want a task done well, call on some busy person to do it.

Busy people are generally the most painstaking and thorough in all they do.

 

The only person who

makes no mistakes is

the person who never does anything.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

 

 

The only lasting favor which the parent may confer upon the child is that of helping and teaching the child to help itself.

 

 

You are a human magnet and you are constantly attracting to you people whose characters harmonize with your own.

 

 

Who told you it couldn't be done? and, what great achievement have they to their credit that entitles them to use the word "impossible" so freely?

 

Every failure, every

adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

 

All salespersons will do well to remember that no-one wants to buy anything that someone else is trying to
"get rid of."

 

 

Think well before you speak because your words may plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of some other person.

 

 

I am thankful that I was born poor - that I did not come into this world burdened by the whims and fancies of wealthy parents, with a bag of gold around my neck.

 

 

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to "get" is to first "give" through some sort of useful service.

 

 

I am thankful for the adversities which have crossed my pathway, for they have taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance, and some other virtues I might never have known.

 

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

 

What helped you over the great obstacles of life?" was asked of a highly successful person.

"The other obstacles," was the reply.

 

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

 

 

Service, Sacrifice and Self-Control are three words which must be well understood by the person who succeeds in doing something that is of help to the world.

 

You may make excuses for the shortcomings of others, if you wish, but hold yourself to a strict accountability if you want to achieve leadership in any undertaking.

 

 

No accurate thinker will judge another person by

what the other person's enemies say about them.

 

No person may become an accurate thinker until they learn how to separate mere gossip and information from facts.

 

 

Has no-one given you an opportunity? Has it ever occurred to you to create opportunity for yourself?

 

The person who slanders other persons unwittingly uncovers the real nature of their inner self.

 

It will make a big difference to you whether you are a person with a message or a person with a grievance.

 

 

The reason most people do not like to hear the story of your troubles is that they have a large number of their own.

 

I know I am here.
I know I had nothing to do with my coming, and I shall have but little, if

anything, to do with my going, therefore I will not worry because worries do not help me.

 

 

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you; unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

 

We all like commendation and many of us like flattery, but it is a debatable question as to whether the indulgence of these tendencies builds character and strength and individuality.

 

We cannot sow thistle seeds and harvest clover.

Mother Nature simply does not run things that way. She goes by cause and effect.

 

Twentieth-century actor Charlie Chaplin made a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he did "something different."

Take the hint and “individualize” yourself with some distinctive idea.

 

The person who is afraid to give credit to those who help them do a piece of creditable work is so small that opportunity will pass by without seeing them some day.

 

 

“Hot Heads” go

with “cold feet.” Anyone who loses their

temper is usually a bluffer and, when “called” on the bluff, is a quitter.

 

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.

 

 

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

 

 

A careful inventory
of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

 

 

First impressions really do count.

Dress to look the part you intend to play in life but take care not to overdo it.

 

 

Conceit is a fog which envelops a person's real character beyond their own recognition.

It weakens their native ability and strengthens all their inconsistencies.

 

If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

 

All anyone really requires, as a capital on which to start a successful career, is a sound mind, a healthy body and a genuine desire to be of as much service as possible to as many people as possible.

There is a suitable reward for every virtue and appropriate punishment for every sin a person commits.

Both the reward and the punishment are effects over which no person has control as they come upon them voluntarily.

 

Your employer does not control the sort of service you render. You control that, and it is the thing that makes or breaks you.

 

 

No person achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

 

 

No person can rise to

fame and fortune without carrying others along with them.

It simply cannot
be done.

 

 

Fear no person, hate no person, wish no-one misfortune, and more than likely you will have plenty of friends.

 

To do much clear thinking, a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge their imagination without distraction.

 

 

Ask any wise person

what they most desire,

and they will, more than

likely, say
"more wisdom."

 

 

While other persons  may side-track your ambitions more than a few  times, remember that discouragement most frequently comes from within.

 

It is a peculiar trait of human nature, but it is true, that the most successful people will work harder for the sake of rendering useful service than they will for money alone.

 

 

The person who actually knows just what they want in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

 

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to attempt.

 

 

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business.

If you don't think so, try to get along without them for a while.

 

 

A good hearty laugh is worth ten thousand "groans" and a million "sighs" in any market on earth.

 

If you are successful remember that somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a lift or an idea that started you in the right direction.

Remember, also, that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

There are ten weaknesses against which most of us must guard ourselves. One of  these is the habit of trying to reap before we have sown, and the other nine are all wrapped up in the one practice of creating alibis to cover every mistake made.

 

 

There is no more dangerous person -

dangerous to themself

and to others - than

the person who passes

judgment without pretending to know the facts.

 

 

Ultimately, nothing matters very much. The defeat that seems to break your heart today will be but a ripple among the waves of other experiences in the ocean of your life further ahead.

 

To love praise, but not worship it, and fear condemnation, but not go down under it, is evidence of a well- balanced personality.

 

 

The educated person is one who has learned how to get everything they need without violating the rights of others.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the fault-finders combined.

 

There are no lazy persons. What may appear to be a lazy person is only an unfortunate soul who has not found the work for which they are best suited.

 

 

There is always room for the person who can be relied upon to deliver the goods when they said they would.

 

I like to see a person

proud of their country,

and I like to see them

live in such a way that their country is proud of them.

 

Employers are always on the lookout for a person who does a better job of any sort than is customary, whether it be sealing a package, writing a letter, or closing a sale.

 

If you have tried and met with defeat; if you have planned and watched your plans as they were crushed before your eyes; just remember that the greatest people in all history were the products of courage, and courage, you know, is born in the cradle of adversity.

 

I would rather begin at the bottom and climb to the top than to start at the top and have to remain there.

 

It is better to be a big person in a small town than to be a small person in a big town, and ever so much easier.

 

 

Aspiration is greater than realization, because it keeps us eternally climbing upward toward some unattained goal.

 

 

Congratulate yourself when you reach that degree of wisdom which prompts you to see less of the weaknesses of others and more of your own, for you will then be walking in the company of the really great.

The word “educate” has its roots in the Latin word "educo," which means to educe, to draw out, to develop from within. The best educated person is the one whose mind has been the most highly developed.

I have great wealth that can never be taken away from me; that I can never squander; that cannot be lost by declining stocks or bad investments; I have the wealth of contentment with my lot in life.

 

Enthusiasm is the battery of the soul. Keep it charged up and you will never be without power to get what you actually need.

 

 

No person has the right to strain the relationship of friendly acquaintance to the breaking point by asking or expecting of a friend something which might prove to be an unreasonable burden to the friend.

 

It is OK to tell your friends, by tactful suggestion, of your needs, but take  care not to ask them outright for assistance if you want to retain their friendship.

 

 

You are well on your way toward success if you have such a keen conception of life that you never build a plan which contemplates your requesting another person to do that which does not bring that person some corresponding advantage in return for compliance with your request.

Salesmanship consists very largely in knowing and in showing the prospective buyer the real merits of the goods or services you are trying to sell.

 

Any person may become successful  by doing the common-place  things of life in a great spirit, with a genuine desire to be of helpful service to others, regardless of their calling.

 

Remember that your real wealth is measured, not by what you have, but by what you are.

 

 

When a person really finds themself at the top of the Ladder of Success, they are never alone because no-one can climb to genuine success without taking others along with them.

 

 

First acquire patience and  perseverance, then make up your mind what else you want, and you will be almost sure to get it.

 

 

There is a sure way to avoid criticism: be nothing and do nothing. Get a job with no future and kill off your ambition.

The remedy never fails.

 

It is an amazing coincidence that the word "American" ends with
"I can."

 

The person who receives no pay for their services except what is in their paycheck is underpaid, no matter how large the paycheck.

 

 

You have a tremendous advantage over the

person who slanders you or does you an intentional injustice; you have it within your power to forgive that person.

 

 

Defeat, like a headache, warns us that something has gone wrong.

If we are intelligent we look for the cause and profit by the experience.

 

Isn’t it strange that the

word "Boomerang" has been in the dictionary all these years without having become generally known that a "Boomerang" is a device which comes back and may wound the hand that throws it?

Do you see that "lucky" person over there who holds a job position through "pull"?

Let me whisper a secret in your ear. Fate is standing in wait for them just around the corner, with a stuffed sock, and it is not stuffed with cotton!

 

Here are twelve good reasons for failure.

The first one is the intention of doing no more than you are paid to do; and you may see the other eleven by looking into
a mirror.

 

You need have no fear of competition from the person who says, “I'm not paid to do this, so I'll not do it.”

They will never be a dangerous competitor for your job.

But watch out for the person who remains at their work until it is finished and performs a little more than is expected of them, for they may challenge you and pass you at the
finish line.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word to those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

 

 

So, you have failed many times?
How fortunate!
You ought to know, by now, some of the things that you should not do.

 

 

You cannot scare a person who is at peace with God, other people, and themself. There is no room for fear in such a person's heart.

When fear finds a welcome there is something that needs awakening.

A good stock of self- confidence and a new outfit will help you land a job without "connections," but remember that nothing will go so far towards helping you hold the job as will push, enthusiasm, and determination to do more than what you are paid.

 

 

Quibbling over salary during a job interview has lost many a person the big opportunity of a lifetime. If the position you seek is one that you know you can throw your whole heart into, take it, even if you have to work for nothing until you deliver a good sample of your “product.” After that, you will receive pay in proportion to the quality and quantity of the work you perform.

 

Every failure will teach you a lesson that you need to learn if you will keep your eyes and ears open and are willing to be taught.

Every adversity is usually a blessing in disguise. Without reverses and temporary defeat, you will never know the amount  of strength that is within you.

 

An occasional misfortune is a good thing.

It reminds us that no one has absolute independence.

 

 

Your current job is nothing more than your opportunity to show what sort of ability you have.

You will get out of it exactly what you put into it - no more and no less.

A "big" job is the sum total of numerous "little" jobs well-done.

 

Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But Today  well-lived makes every Yesterday a dream of happiness, and every Tomorrow  a vision of hope.

Look forward, therefore, to

Today.

 

 

One of the greatest leaders who ever lived stated the secret of their leadership in six words, as follows: “Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.”

 

 

Remember this, when things go against you, that of all the expressions you show in your face the light of joy shines farthest out to sea.

 

It is far better to be associated with a few people who are right than with the mob, which is wrong, because right is always the winner in the end.

 

No-one is living right unless they live in such a way that whoever meets them goes away more confident and joyous for the contact.

 

 

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

 

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life enough sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostility.

 

Strive not to banish pain and doubt,
In pleasure’s noisy din;

The peace you seek from without,
Is only found within.

 

 

There are people in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and  of leaving it behind them everywhere they go.

Make this your goal.

 

It takes only a second to administer a rebuke, but it may take a life-time for the one who has been rebuked to forget it.

 

Unfortunate, indeed, is the person who becomes so used to evil that it no longer appears to be horrible.

 

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be your aim.

 

If you have built a sound character it makes no difference what people say about you, because you will win in
the end.

No idle person is ever safe, whether they be rich or poor, white or black, educated or illiterate.

 

 

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant to others.

There is no defeat except that which comes from within you. There is really no insurmountable barrier except your own inherent weakness of purpose.

 

THIS IS THE END OF THE BOOK, BUT IT IS THE BEGINNING OF YOUR JOURNEY TO SUCCESS

 

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