Emancipation Quotes

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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."

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

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

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

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

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

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

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

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

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

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 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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

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

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

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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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie