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Mark Twain

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Topic: Luck
Location: Capital Reef National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. — Mark Twain

Example Leadership

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Self Self-esteem

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain

Goals Imagination Purpose Visualize

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. — Mark Twain

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. — Mark Twain

Freedom Leadership Society

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. — Mark Twain

Awareness Persuasion Thinking

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain

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It is hard to fail but it is worse to never have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

Action Failure Success

Observe all men, thyself most. — Benjamin Franklin

Guilt is the practice of a false leader. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Fear Leadership Self-esteem Society

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

Commitment Competition Perseverance Persistence

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense. — African Proverb

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? — Zig Ziglar

Amazing Travel Vacation

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Seneca

Raise expectations to improve performance. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Ability Expectations

More on Luck

There is no luck except where there is discipline. — Irish Proverb

Action Discipline Luck Work

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson

Belief Luck Possibility Work

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. — Ovid

Go and wake up your luck. — Persian Proverb

Action Leadership Luck Work

Luck never gives; it only lends. — Swedish Proverb

Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Benjamin Franklin

What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another. — African Proverb

Luck is not chance. It's Toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned. — Emily Dickinson

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

› Tony Robbins

Luck Opportunity Preparation

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. — William Shakespeare

Action Appreciation Gratitude Honesty Integrity Luck

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. — Democritus

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat the luckier you get. — Ray Kroc

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day. — Japanese Proverb

Action Decision Luck

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ability Belief Luck

Luck is the residue of design. — John Milton

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. — Rochefoucauld

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. — Maya Angelou

Luck Possibility Solitude

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

› Katharine Hepburn

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. — Douglas MacArthur

Nothing is obnoxious as other people's luck. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him. — German Proverb

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca

Goals Luck Opportunity Planning Preparation

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama

The right time is any time that one is still lucky to have. — Henry James

Faith Fate Luck Time

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