Do It Once, Do It Right. Get It Over With!” ~ Nan, CPA Forum member

Begin NOW thinking about how you will rejoin civilized society, but at a much higher level

than you were when you started up this road, because you will have your CPA license.” ~

Nan

Exam Quotes On Diligence

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work learning from failure.” ~

General Colin Powell

Colin Powell (1937 – ) is a retired four-star general in the US Army and the 65th United States

Secretary of State (and the first African American appointed to this position) serving under

President George W. Bush from 2001-2005.

Few minds wear out; most rust out.” ~ Christian Nextell Bovee

Christian Nextell Bovee (born 1820) was an American author from New York City. Many widely

circulated quotes from him comes from his two publications, Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies, and

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.” ~ Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a famous eighteenth century English poet best known for his

quotes and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ~ David

Bly

David Bly (1852-) is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of

Representatives representing District 25B.

Exam Quotes On Persistence

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ~

Robert Collier

Robert Collier (1885 – 1950) was an author of self help, and New

Thought metaphysical books in the 20th century.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.” ~

Anonymous

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” ~ Chinese Proverb

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ~

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) was a theoretical physicist,

philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most

influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He

is often regarded as the father of modern physics.

Exam Quotes On Taking The Initiative

Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while

others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” ~ William A. Ward

William A. Ward (1921 – 1994) is one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

He is the author of Fountains of Faith.

The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started.” ~ Anonymous

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill (1883 – 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of

the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is

one of the best-selling books of all time.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no

result.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during

the Indian independence movement.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make

mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton

Conrad Nicholson Hilton was (1887 – 1979) was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton

Hotels chain.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But

you have to take action to get it.” ~ Jules Renard

Jules Renard (or Pierre-Jules Renard) (1864 – 1910) was a French author and member of the

Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de Carotte (Carrot Top) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Natural Histories).

Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~ Edward Young

Edward Young (1681 – 1765) was an English poet, best

remembered for Night Thoughts.

Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.” ~ Yoda

Yoda isthe Jedi Master in Star Wars.

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If

you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” ~ Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (b. Eleanor Marie Robertson) (1950 – ) is a bestselling American author of more

than 165 romance novels, and she writes as J.D. Robb for the “In Death” series. She also has

written under the pseudonym Jill March, and some of her works were published in the UK as

Sarah Hardesty.

Exam Quotes On Facing Challenges

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy — I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it” ~ Art Williams

Arthur T. Williams (1939 – ) is a former professional basketball player in America.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret” ~ Leo Bascaglia

Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia (a.k.a “Dr Love”) (1924 – 1998) was an author and motivational

speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H.

Schuller

Robert Harold Schuller (1926 – ), is an American

televangelist, pastor, and author known around the world

through the weekly Hour of Power television broadcast that

he founded in 1970.

Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee (born 1820) was an American author from New York City. Many widely

circulated quotes from him comes from his two publications, Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies, and

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.

Exam Quotes On Learning From Failures

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten

things I did were failures, so I did ten times more

work.” ~ Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw (George Bernard Shaw) (1856 – 1950) was a talented Irish playwright of more

than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of

comedy to make their stark themes more palatable.

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and

do it.” ~ William Durant

William Durant (1861 – 1947) was a pioneering industrialist and founder of General Motors

Corporation.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a

brand new ending.” ~ Carl Bard

Carl Bard (1907-1978) was a Scottish Theologian Religious Writer Broadcaster.

You’re never a loser til you quit trying.” ~ Anonymous

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they

gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed

many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture

camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually

fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) was an American writer,

publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent

of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous

for his essay A Message to Garcia.

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.” ~ Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for

his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940

to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Exam Quotes On Living A Fruitful Life

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. it’s not a day when you lounge around

doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 – ) served as Prime Minister of the United

Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the

only woman to have held either post

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best

remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings

directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” ~ Max DePree

Max DePree is an American writer. A son of D.J. DePree, founder of Herman Miller office furniture

company, he and his brother Hugh DePree assumed leadership of the company the early 1960s.

He succeeded his brother Hugh as CEO in the mid-1980s and served in that capacity to 1990. His

book Leadership is an Art has sold more than 800,000 copies. In 1992

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during

the Indian independence movement.

If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life.” ~

Confucius

Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social

philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced

Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life.

Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.” ~Lois Bey

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ~ Thomas

Edison

Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who

developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph,

the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.