Henry Ford on how to make hard work easy
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
— Henry Ford
Henry Ford on goals
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
— Henry Ford
Mark Twain on the secret(s)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
- Mark Twain
Robert Collier on the steps to success
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
Theodore Roosevelt on truly living
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
John Wooden on doing things right the first time
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Talking versus doing
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
John Wooden on how to judge yourself
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- John Wooden
Rosalynn Carter on risk taking
“You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.”
— Rosalynn Carter
Seneca on planning
“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
- Seneca