150 Quotes About Success And Life - By Wael El-Manzalawy

150 Quotes About
Success And Life

       By
Wael El-Manzalawy

Contents
About The Writer………………………………… 3
Preface …………………………………………….. 4
150 Quotes About Success And Life ……………... 5

About The Writer

Wael El-Manzalawy is an Egyptian writer. He was born in
1973. He was graduated from the English Department in
the Faculty of Arts. He has a Diploma from the Faculty of
Education. He was graduated from an institute for
preparing Islamic scholars. He writes articles and short
stories in Arabic and English. His articles and short stories
were published at many newspapers, magazines and
websites.

Preface

“Throw a stone in the stagnant water. You can change the
world.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
One quote may summarize the idea of a whole chapter.
You can save many years in life by reading one quote. This
book contains about 150 quotes by many international
thinkers. I hope that this book will be useful. I’m looking
forward to your feedback.

150 Quotes About Success
         And Life
“Failure can destroy you if you are weak, but if you are
strong, you can destroy failure.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Many people around you can’t imagine that you will be a
genius, but you can do it.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“You can do many things, but you don’t know yourself.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“Imagination is your first friend. Illusion is your first
enemy.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of
achievement.” –William Arthur Ward
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment
that something else is more important than fear.” –
Ambrose Redmoon
“Life without risks is not worth living.” –Charles A.
Lindbergh
“It only takes one person to change your life- you.” –Ruth
Casey
“If you are clear about what you want, the world responds
with clarity” –Loretta Staples
“The distance is nothing, it is only the first step that is
difficult.” –Mme. Du Deffand

“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” –
Andrew Camegie
“It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a
dead one can float with it.” –John Crowe
“Throw a stone in the stagnant water. You can change the
world.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Ignoring the facts may give you satisfaction, but it will
lead you to a catastrophe that cannot be ignored.” –Wael
El-Manzalawy
“A seventy per cent good decision is better than no decision
at all.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Confidence is half of victory.” –Yiddish Proverb
“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others
will have no choice but to believe with you.” –Cynthia
Korsey
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions
as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing
them.” –Denis Waitley
“When you change the way you look at things; the things
you look at will change.” –Wayne Dyer
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful
people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never
quit.” –Conrad Hilton
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom
goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
–Jawaharlal Nehru
“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but
great actions speak to all mankind.” –Emily P. Bissell

“Taking a new step …… is what people fear most.” –
Dostoyevski
“I can accept failure – everyone fails at something. But I
can’t accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan
“Our doubts are traitors that make us loose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt.” –William Shakespeare
“You may delay, but time will not.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Nobody can make you inferior without your permission.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.”
–Yogi Berra
“The way to success is –itself- enjoyable.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“To know what you want is the first step in the journey of
life.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Successful environments usually         create   successful
persons.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“The successful person among the environment of failure is
the real hero.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people
ask better questions, and as a result, they get better
answers.” –Anthony Robbins
“Success is a journey, not a destination.” –Ben Sweetland
“No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.” –
Greg Henry Quinn
“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good
judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is
usually the result of bad judgment.” –Anthony Robbins

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
–Donald Trump
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” –Zig Ziglar
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a
new dream.” –Les Brown
“People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys
of success.” –Pete Zafra
“The more goals you set – the more goals you get.” –Mark
Victor Hansen
“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You are not a
tree.” –Jim Rohn
“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” –Anthony
Robbins
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few
people actually do what they know. Knowing is not
enough! You must take action.” –Anthony Robbins
“If you are ambitious, success leads you to more success.”
–Wael El-Manzalawy
“Intelligent persons think while they are sleeping, but very
stupid persons don’t use their minds at all.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“(Impossible) is the weapon of failure.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“Strong will is priceless.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“I am a slow walker ……but I never walk backwards.” –
Abraham Lincoln

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas
Edison
“The road to success is always under construction.” –Lily
Tomlin
“You must do the very thing you think you cannot do.” –
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know
how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to
read.” –Jim Rohn
“The best way to get started is to stop talking and begin
doing.” –Walt Disney
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain
way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” –
Thomas Edison
“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” –
Alan LoyMcGinnis
“A man with no enemies never existed.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“When your enemy feels weak, he tries to appear more
strong.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“The strongest weapon of your enemy is the illusion of his
strength.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“I’m not a has-been. I’m a will-be.” Lauren Bacall
“Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable
before you decide what’s possible.” –Brain Tracy
“Our power is in our ability to decide.” Buckminster
Fuller

“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty
rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” –Reed
Markham
“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served
afterwards to solve other problems.” –Rene Descartes
“People with goals succeed because they know where
they’re going.” –Earl Nightingale
“They know enough who know how to learn.” –Henry
Adams
“Learning is the discovery that something is possible.” –
Fritz Perls
“Reading is enjoyable and useful at the same time. It’s a
very rare thing.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Without reading, the human civilization will end.” –Wael
El-Manzalawy
“Your enemies get their strength from your weakness. If
you are strong, they will be weak.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Justice bears safety. Injustice bears revenge.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.” –
Jim Rohn
“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.” –Jean
Baptiste Moliere
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A
terrible thing: no one to blame.” –Erica Jong
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
–Margaret Thatcher

“The men who have done big things are those who were
not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk
failure in order to gain success.” –B.C. Forbes
“You can do it if you believe you can.” –Napoleon Hill
“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your
success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.”
–David Ambrose
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of
themselves.” –Dale Carneigie
“Don’t use the past to build a dam between you and the
future. And don’t allow anyone to build this dam.” –Wael
El-Manzalawy
“The past should be educational, the future should be
inspiring and the present is the time of work and
enjoyment.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“To choose from multiple alternatives is very difficult, but
it makes the difference between great and ordinary men.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“Great inventors believed in the impossible and converted
it into truth.” –Wael El-Manzalthat awy
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it
is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” –Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
“It is what we think we know already that often prevent us
from learning.” –Claude Bernard
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt
discarded is another step forward.” –Thomas Edison
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you
just sit there.” –Will Rogers

“Undertake something that is difficult, it will do you good.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have
already mastered, you will never grow.” –Ronald Osborn
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you
fear.” –William Jennings Bryan
“You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.” –
Edgar F. Magnin
“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what
we are.” –Max Depree
“Do you know yourself? Impossible. Everyday you will
know something new.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Your success may be like fire: everyone sees it, but it ends
rapidly. And your success may be like the seed of a huge
tree that grows and grows everyday.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“History is a very good teacher, but he has very few
students.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Build your character. It’s the foundation of your life.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a
gatherer of good ideas and information. That’s called doing
your homework.” –Jim Rohn
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for
his opportunity when it comes.” –Benjamin Disraeli
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
–Anthony Robbins
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” –Anthony
Robbins

“Some men see things as they are, and say, “Why?” I
dream of things that never were, and say, “Why not?” –
George Bernard Shaw
“If you don’t have a vision, then your reality will always be
determined by other’s perception.” –Melanee Addison
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” –Thomas
Fuller
“Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don’t fail
overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment,
repeated every day.” –Jim Rohn
“Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying where
there seemed to be no hope at all.” –Dale Carneige
“If you are an ordinary person, there are billions of you.
But if you are creative, there is only one of you.” –Wael
El-Manzalawy
“The sun of truth cannot be switched off.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“To deceive the others is very bad, but to deceive yourself
is the worst.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Some people sometimes lie and believe themselves.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“The strongest oak in the forest is not the one that is
protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the
one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle
for its existence against the winds and rain and the
scorching sun.” –Napoleon Hill

“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t
accept the fact that I can do something else.” –Dolly
Parton
“Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called
knowing.” –Carolyn Myss
“Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.” –
Norman Vincent Peale
“Many persons have changed the world. You can do it.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“Talent is a fact that cannot be denied, but everyone has his
own talent.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Talent without hard working is like a seed in the soil
without water.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Creative imagination plus strong will equals a very
successful person.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“All the achievements of the world of reality start in the
world of imagination.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Keep away from small people who try to belittle your
ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you too can become great.” –Mark
Twain
“He that fails to command thoughts, will soon lose
command of their actions.” Anon
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be
experienced.” –Soren Kierkegoard
“The creative thinker is great, but he needs many people to
convert his thinking to truth.” –Wael El-Manzalawy

“Don’t allow anyone to control you. You should control
yourself.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“The natural landscape will remain the most beautiful.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“Creativity makes the difference between stagnancy and
progress.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” –
George Elliot
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the
world that was not there before.” –Edwin Elliot
“Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how
much time do we have? The question is what shall we do
with it.” –Anna Robertson Brown
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your
life forever.” –Keri Russell
“Each of us was born with wings …….. (and) has the
ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do
things beyond our wildest imagings.” –Barbara Stanny
“The difference between a successful person and others is
not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a
lack of will.” –Vince Lombardi
“Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you
take your eyes off your goal.” –Henry Ford
“Try to live alone and you will find that it is impossible.” –
Wael El-Manzalawy
“You should read history. It is not the past only, but it is the
future too.” –Wael El-Manzalawy

“The good book is the best friend. It advises you, but it is
not expecting anything from you.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“We build the foundations of our future at present.” –Wael
El-Manzalawy
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue
over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small
hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone
else’s hand, but not you.” –Jim Rohn
“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just
one step beyond their greatest failure.” –Napoleon Hill
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll
fall into someone else’s plans. And guess what they have
planned for you? Not much.” –Jim Rohn
“My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions
because they are easy; you don’t make decisions because
they are cheap; you don’t make decisions because they are
popular; you make decisions because they’re right.” –
Hesburgh
“If you want something you never had before, you’ve got
to do something you have never done before.” –Drina
Reed
“Too weak to make decisions is the worst one.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy
“Good decisions at the suitable time mean success.” –Wael
El-Manzalawy
“The God gives you what is good for you.” –Wael El-
Manzalawy

“If ye would count up the favours of Allah, never would ye
be able to number them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.” –The Holy Quran
“Allah commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality
to kith and kin, and He forbids all shameful deeds, and
injustice and rebellion: He instructs you, that ye may
receive admonition.” –The Holy Quran
“Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and
beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are
best and most gracious” –The Holy Quran
“If any one believes in Allah, ((Allah)) guides his heart
(aright)” -The Holy Quran
“After a difficulty, Allah will soon grant relief.” –The Holy
Quran
“O ye who believe! stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses
to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make
you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that
is next to piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is well-
acquainted with all that ye do.” –The Holy Quran
“Hast thou not Turned thy vision to one who disputed with
Abraham About his Lord, because Allah had granted him
power? Abraham said: "My Lord is He Who Giveth life
and death." He said: "I give life and death". Said Abraham:
"But it is Allah that causeth the sun to rise from the east:
Do thou then cause him to rise from the West." Thus was
he confounded who (in arrogance) rejected faith. Nor doth
Allah Give guidance to a people unjust.” –The Holy
Quran