English Quotes

~ A ~

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Aesop

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

Elizabeth Arden

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

~ B ~

Learning by experience often is painful - and the more it hurts, the more you learn.

Ralph Banks

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Tony Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

~ C ~

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

Jack Canfield

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

Jack Canfield

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Dale Carnegie

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Dale Carnegie

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Jackie Chan

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

Success is never final.

Winston Churchill

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed a lot.

Winston Churchill

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Bill Clinton

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Bill Clinton

The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work.

Jim Collins

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Stephen Covey

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

Tom Cruise

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

Tom Cruise

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication.. and I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

Tom Cruise

~ D ~

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Daniel Day-Lewis

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

Michael Dell

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Walt Disney

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

~ E ~

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clint Eastwood

Men must know their limitations.

Clint Eastwood

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Clint Eastwood

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ F ~

Prejudice always obscures the truth.

Henry Fonda

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Jane Fonda

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B C Forbes

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B C Forbes

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.

B C Forbes

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J Fox

~ G ~

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Harold S. Geneen

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

J. Paul Getty

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

Billy Graham

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Alan Greenspan

~ H ~

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Tom Hanks

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

~ I ~

~ J ~

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Michael Jackson

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Steve Jobs

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Michael Jordan

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me try harder next time.

Michael Jordan

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

~ K ~

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

Helen Keller

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Philip Knight

~ L ~

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Dalai Lama

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

Andy Lau

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

As you think, so shall you become.

Bruce Lee

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

C. S. Lewis

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Li Ka Shing

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

~ M ~

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Phil McGraw

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Rupert Murdoch

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Rupert Murdoch

~ N ~

~ O ~

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Barack Obama

~ P ~

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Brad Pitt

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

John Powell

~ Q ~

~ R ~

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Christopher Reeve

You've got to give more than you take.

Christopher Reeve

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly, I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

J. K. Rowling

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

J. K. Rowling

~ S ~

We want passion for our business... workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.

Howard Schultz

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

~ T ~

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

We can do not great things - only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Brian Tracy

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Brian Tracy

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Donald Trump

The old saying that “success breeds success” has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

Donald Trump

I will get the job done.

Donald Tsang

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

~ U ~

~ V ~

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent van Gogh

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

Vincent van Gogh

~ W ~

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Oscar Wilde

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Bruce Willis

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Oprah Winfrey

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" "Are you doing what fulfills you?"

Oprah Winfrey

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

Elijah Wood

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden

There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come up short on a lot on my goals, but it's always fun to try and achieve them.

Tiger Woods /dd>

~ X ~

~ Y ~

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Martin Yan

~ Z ~