Your Achievement Quotes

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

“It’s not what happens to you in life that counts; it’s how you take it, and what you make of it.”—Denis Waitley

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”—Susan J. Bissonette

“A character is a completely fashioned will.”—Novalis

“Take your job seriously, but don’t take their complaints personally. If you take it personally, you’ll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you’ll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously, it’s you with them. If you take it personally, it’s you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?”—Jeffrey Gitomer

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

“Adulthood is defined by the willingness to accept full responsibility for where you are at in life, no longer blaming others or circumstances.”—Joe Westbrook

“If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective-expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.”—Stephen R. Covey

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.”—Mark Twain

“99 percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”—George Washington Carver

PLANNING

“When plans are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.”—Sir William Osler

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are, you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.”—Jim Rohn

“Don’t just do something—sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead.”—Richard Eyre

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”—William Wadsworth

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"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." —Abraham Lincoln

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