Objectives and Quotes

Learning Objectives

• Understand why building self-esteem is important in developing a successful career plan
• Identify specific components of "the success profile"
• Recognize approaches and techniques for creating opportunities for success in your career planning

Inspirational Quotes

Reasons don't count.
 — Dr. Robert Anthony

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
 — Jean Cocteau

Jockey Eddie Arcaro lost his first 45 races. Madame Curie "failed" hundreds of times en route to discovering radium. Thomas Edison made 3,000 mistakes on the way to inventing the electric light. Clearly, you will not be remembered for the number of times you fail, but for the number of times you succeed.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't … you're right.
 — Henry Ford

Some of your hurts you have cured & the sharpest you still have survived, but what torments of grief you've endured from evils that never arrived!
 — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you believe with feeling, you become the total sum of your reality.
 — Ursula Bacon

The wordenthusiasm is based on a Greek word that means, roughly, to be possessed by a god.

It is the easiest thing in the world to determine precisely how much a person loves and respects himself. Simply watch how that person loves and respects others. Scripture urges us to love our neighbors as ourselves—and it is interesting to note that we always do.

Attitudes are habits of thinking. Remember: First, you form your habits, then they form you.

Practice adding value to yourself. Conduct a daily interview with yourself. Ask, "What can I do to make myself more valuable today?" Visualize yourself not as you are, but as you can be. Specific ways for attaining your potential value will suggest themselves.

That which you think of yourself will determine your fate.
 — Henry David Thoreau

No one makes another feel inferior without consent.
 — Eleanor Roosevelt

Confidence is not trying the knob after you've locked the door.
 — William McFee

You always pass failure on the way to success.
 — Mickey Rooney

To achieve all that is dreamed, one must think of himself as greater than he is.
 — Goethe

No one holds a good opinion of a person who holds a low opinion of his own.
 — Anthony Trollop

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
 — Bennett Cerf

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
 — Anonymous

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for.
 — Matthew 21:22

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there too; so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
 — Marian Anderson

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
 — S. I. Hayakawa

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
 — Søren Kierkegaard

Only those who dare to fail greatly ever achieve greatly.
 — Robert Kennedy

When people believe in themselves, it is amazing what they can accomplish.
 — Sam Walton