Plan the Work – Work the Plan
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“If things seem under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent action and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trails you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast … and on day you will build something that endures, something worthy of your potential”
Epictetus
“We get distracted by what is outside our control. [Success] begins by trying to make each day count… If you sincerely try to make each day a masterpiece, angels can do no better.”
John Wooden
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains it course but adjust its flow. …they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the results of a thousand battles, for they win in advance, defeating those who have already lost.”
Sun Tzu
“The talk you hear …about adapting to change is not only stupid it’s …dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. By the time you catch up, the competition is ahead of you.”
Peter Drucker
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
Barack Obama
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller
"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."
Estee Lauder
"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."
Madonna
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."
bell hooks
"Don't count the days, make the days count."
Muhammad Ali
“Stay hunger. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
"Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are."
Socrates
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today."
Ernest Hemingway
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Marie Curie
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them."
Richard Dreyfus
"Knowing the right thing doesn't mean much if you don't do the right thing."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing."
Walt Disney
"Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with."
Michelle Obama
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur
"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."
Mae Jemison
"Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end."
Robin S. Sharma
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
Stephen Chbosky
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol
"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers--but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."
Katharine Hepburn
"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
Wayne W. Dyer
"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."
Madonna
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
Mother Theresa
"Change is the end result of all true learning."
Leo Buscaglia
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow."
Richard Bach
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."
Chris Grosser
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
John D. Rockefeller
"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."
Ray Goforth
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."
Jim Rohn
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
Winston Churchill
"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."
Tony Hsieh
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
G. K. Chesterton
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."
Thomas J. Watson
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn
"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do."
Anonymous
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
-- Anonymous
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."
Michael John Bobak
"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Tony Robbins
"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."
Robert Kiyosaki
"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
Steve Jobs
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Bruce Lee
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Colin Powell
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
Jim Rohn
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--It is: Try to please everybody."
Herbert Bayard Swope
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer
"Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do."
Unknown
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
"Some people dream of success while others wake up and work."
Unknown
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney
"The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."
Unknown
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him."
David Brinkley
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."
Zig Ziglar
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
Oprah Winfrey
"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."
Anthony Robbins
"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."
Aristotle Onassis
"I failed my way to success."
Thomas Edison
"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."
Estee Lauder
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes."
Thomas Edison
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
Vidal Sassoon
"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."
-- Charles F. Kettering