1001 Motivational Quotes For Success: Great Quotes from Great Minds

"The habit of persistence is the
habit of victory."

- Herbert Kaufman

Aesop’s Fables: The Wolf and the Crane

A Wolf had been gorging on an animal he had killed,
when suddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his throat
and he could not swallow it. He soon felt terrible pain in
his throat, and ran up and down groaning and groaning
and seeking for something to relieve the pain. He tried to
induce every one he met to remove the bone. ‘I would
give anything,’ said he, ‘if you would take it out.’ At last
the Crane agreed to try, and told the Wolf to lie on his
side and open his jaws as wide as he could. Then the
Crane put its long neck down the Wolf’s throat, and with
its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got it out.
‘Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?’
said the Crane.
The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: ‘Be
content. You have put your head inside a Wolf’s mouth
and taken it out again in safety; that ought to be reward
enough for you.’
Gratitude and greed go not together.

1001 Motivational Quotes For Success: Great Quotes from Great Minds

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have.
The quality of our lives is, and will be,
a reflection of how well we develop, train,
and utilize this precious gift.

- Brian Tracy

Aesop’s Fables: The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard
among the hens when suddenly he espied something
shinning amid the straw. ‘Ho! ho!’ quoth he, ‘that’s for
me,’ and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What
did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had
been lost in the yard? ‘You may be a treasure,’ quoth
Master Cock, ‘to men that prize you, but for me I would
rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls.’
Precious things are for those that can prize them.

1001 Motivational Quotes For Success: Great Quotes from Great Minds

Your ideas are like diamonds...
without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock,
but by cutting away the impurities,
they become priceless.

- Paul Kearly

1001 Motivational Quotes For Success: Great Quotes from Great Minds

People become successful the
minute they decide to.

- Harvey Mackay