“Opportunity is missed by most people b/c it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” ~Thomas Edison
Thanks to Ben Arment for a great list of quotes on success/opportunity/hard work/etc. Check out the entire list here. Here are a few of my favs:
- Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~Stephen King
- Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be. ~Charles Brower
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison
- If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ~Thomas Watson
- I don’t fear the man who practiced 10,000 kicks one time. I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ~Bruce Lee
- Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. ~Thomas Edison
- One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested ~E.M. Forster
- There are 3 stages to every great work of God: First it’s impossible, Then it’s difficult, Then it’s done. ~J. Hudson Taylor
- The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing. ~Seth Godin
- You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. ~Henry Ford
- Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Abraham Lincoln
- Every artist was first an amateur. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ~Peter Drucker
- Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~Robert Collier
- I never worry about action; only inaction. ~Winston Churchill
- The opposite of a leader isn’t a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. ~Marcus Buckingham
- Thinking big without thinking long is a recipe for disappointment. ~Mark Batterson
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