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Learn from your Work Quotes

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar

Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you never know where it may lead. – Julia Morgan

You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others… No one’s education is ever complete. – Sir. John Templeton

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. – Thomas Henry Huxley

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton

No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something. – Sean Gregory Derrick

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. – Barbara Sher

Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. – Les Brown

Invest in yourself, in your education. There’s nothing better. – Sylvia Porter

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. – Les Brown

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. – William Ellery Channing

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. – Unknown

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. – Weston H. Agor

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. – Richard A. Nelson

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Unknown

Famous Attitude Quotes

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~ Ken Keyes Jr

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise. ~ Kathleen Turner

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. ~ Robert Frost

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~ William James

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~ Herm Albright, Reader’s Digest, June 1995

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~ English Proverb

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~ G.K. Chesterton, On Running After One’s Hat, All Things Considered, 1908

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~ C.C. Scott

Anywhere is paradise; it’s up to you. ~ Author Unknown

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~ Winston Churchill

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~ Glorie Abelhas

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I’d like to express my thanks –
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~ Irving Berlin, I Got the Sun in the Morning, 1946.

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~ Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect – 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~ Ronald Spark

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~ William Arthur Ward

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~ Hugh Downs

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~ Vince Lombardi

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~ Marcus Antonius

Self Confidence Quotes

“The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.” ~Walt Disney

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~E. E. Cummings

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ~Wendy Wasserstein

“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” ~Cicero

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~African Proverb

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~Author Unknown

“Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.” ~Author Unknown

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” ~Bruce Barton

“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.“ ~Norman Vincent Peale

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” ~Marcus Garvey

“When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.” ~Brian Tracy

“Confidence, like art never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” ~Earl Grey Stevenson

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” ~Lazarus Long

“People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~Douglas MacArthur

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self confidence, bravery and tenacity.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.” ~Alan Alda

“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” ~Dalai Lama

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within themselves, so they fail in their search.” ~Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Progress Quotes

– “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein

– “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama

– “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan

– “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.” – Mohandas Gandhi

– “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi

– “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi

– “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn

– “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn

– “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn

– “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran

– “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy

– “The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy

– “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis

– “It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” – Theodore Roosevelt