
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.
- Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany)
In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill
We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles.
Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge,
it repeats the same knowledge,
it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again.
No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence.
No-mind is the real way to live,
the real way to know, the real way to be.
- Osho
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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