See You At The Top Quotes
"You are where you are because that's exactly where you want to be."
"If we cannot love ourselves, where will we draw our love for anyone else?"
"An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality."
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
"You cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."
"Born to win, but throughout a lifetime, conditioned to lose."
"You can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve."
"Failure is an event, not a person; yesterday ended last night—today is a brand new day and it’s yours."
"The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love and acceptance."
"It’s not who’s right that is important— it’s what’s right."
"The person who won’t stand for something will fall for anything."
"Tell the truth and tell it ever, costeth what it will, for he who hides the wrong he did, does the wrong thing still."
"If you set the example you will not have to set the rules."
"Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you."
"The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them."
"It’s all right to get down, but don’t get down on yourself."
"You don’t drown by falling into water, you only drown if you stay there."
"You are not beaten by being knocked down. You’re only beaten if you stay down."
"A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."
"You are somebody because God doesn’t take time to make a nobody."
"Develop a swelled heart, not a swelled head."
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make history."
"You must have a goal, and, in reality, a goals program."
"It’s just as difficult to reach a destination you don’t have as it is to come back from a place you’ve never been."
"Without goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you."
"Life is sustained only so long as life has something valuable as its object."
"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals."
"Without long-range goals, you are likely to be overcome by short-range frustrations."
"Everybody is not as interested in your success as you are."
"Others can stop you temporarily—you are the only one who can do it permanently."
"If you don’t have long-range goals, then temporary obstacles can be needlessly frustrating."
"A setback—regardless of the severity—can be a stepping stone and not a stumbling block."
"You go as far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther."
"Nobody would ever attempt anything of significance if all obstacles had to be removed before they started."
"The opportunity for greatness does not come cascading down like a torrential Niagara Falls, but rather it comes slowly, one drop at a time."
"If you expect to improve your circumstances, you must change and improve yourself."
"A goal properly set is partially reached because it is a strong statement of your belief that you can and will reach it."
"Goals can be negative if one of three conditions exists."
"You don’t pay the price for good health, you enjoy the benefits of good health."
"The most important discovery of our time is that we can alter our lives by altering our attitudes."
"Your attitude is more important than your aptitude."
"Nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm."
"Most people let conditions control their attitude instead of using their attitude to control conditions."
"You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind."
"I don’t believe you can separate [the go-get attitude and the go-give attitude], as the story of Israel...so clearly demonstrates."
"We do not sing because we are happy. We are happy because we sing."
"Nobody fails by falling down or getting despondent. They only fail if they stay down or negative."
"We do not stop working and playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop working and playing."
"Every thought that goes into your mind has an effect, to some degree."
"You don’t drown by falling into the water. You drown only if you stay there."
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
"Each one had to have a strong, healthy self-image."
"Men and women who need this kind of motivation less than anyone else on Planet Earth are the ones who seek it, and use it the most."
"The drive that takes men to the top is a drive that thrives on constant nourishment and reinforcement."
"Men who reach the pinnacle of success... recognize the fact that there is plenty of room at the top, but not enough room to sit down."
"When you are emotionally up and riding high, your optimism and ambition are working overtime."
"Your attitude, enthusiasm, spirit of cooperation, and value to your employer will pole vault upward."
"Any success-minded person should build his own 'success' library for ready reference which leads to constant growth."
"Initially, you might have to 'force' yourself to read and listen on a daily basis."
"After arising... go to a quiet 'success' spot in your home for your first mental snack."
"The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work—if you won’t."
"Education covers a lot of ground, but it won’t cultivate any of it."
"Isn’t it amazing the number of people who show up for work and then avoid it like the plague!"
"Work is the price we enjoy to travel the highways of success."
"When men learn that if they want to occupy their places in the sun they’ll have to expect some blisters, much will have been accomplished."
"In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing."
"If you want to create a cripple, just give a man a pair of crutches for a few months—or give him a 'free lunch' long enough for him to get in the habit of getting something for nothing."
"The only plan that is going to work over the long haul is an internal change in our philosophy."
"Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it."
"Real security is truly an inside job. It can’t be given or provided—it must be earned."
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."
"Persistence, determination, and hard work makes the difference."
"The opportunity for greatness doesn’t knock; it’s inside every one of us."
"A letter to your congressman would have an impact. We know public opinion carries considerable weight."
"The states that have the right-to-work laws have a lower rate of unemployment than those with 'closed shop' laws."
"I’m convinced there’s a solution to these problems."
"Sixty-two percent do not believe a worker should produce to the best of his ability, which is another form of dishonesty."
"The solution, however, is covered in the last four sentences of the speech President Kennedy was to have made in Dallas."
"We, in this country, in this generation, are by destiny, rather than choice, the watchmen of the walls of world freedom."
"Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain."
"If God does not rule the affairs of man then tyrants will."
"Now, in fairness to criminal and victim alike, we must look to the rights of both and make the criminal, instead of the victim, pay for the crime."
"Each one of us must stop saying, 'those politicians.' It is not 'That Congressman,' 'That Senator' or 'That Mayor.'"
"In every case the pattern was the same, a relaxing of moral standards which led to pornography followed by promiscuity, adultery, wife-swapping, and, finally, homosexuality."
"Despite the efforts of tens of thousands of dedicated government employees... the government simply doesn’t know how to run a business."
"The Exxon Corporation can ship a gallon of gasoline from Houston, Texas, to New York City faster and cheaper than the Post Office can send a letter from Dallas to Ft. Worth."
"The opportunities of America’s crises far outweigh the 'disasters' caused by them, and America historically takes its 'lemons' and makes 'lemonade.'"
"The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people... they will not obtain a lasting liberty."
"For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
"You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility."
"Building a better you is the first step to building a better America."