NordenBladet – Here you´ll find a brief review of Scandinavian and European royal teenagers who will one day assume the throne.
Princess Elisabeth of Belgium:
Also known as the Duchess of Brabant (the title of the heir to the Belgian throne), Elisabeth will come of age on 25 October. Elisabeth, as the eldest of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde’s four children, is first in line to the throne. Her three younger siblings are Prince Gabriel, Prince Emmanuel, and Princess Eléonore.
Elisabeth currently attends school in Wales at the UWC Atlantic College and is expected to graduate in May 2020. She will one day be Belgium’s first queen regnant.
Prince Christian of Denmark:
He will one day ascend the throne after his father, Crown Prince Frederik. The 13-year-old is the eldest of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary’s four children. His three younger siblings are Princess Isabella, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine. Born on 15 October 2005, he will turn 14 later this year.
Christian was the first member of the Danish Royal Family to attend a public school. He is enrolled at Tranegårdskolen with his three younger siblings.
Prince Christian of Denmark, Photo: Kongehuset/Franne Voigt
Princess Amalia of the Netherlands:
Born Princess Catharina-Amalia, her title since her father’s ascension to the Dutch throne is the Princess of Orange. The eldest of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima’s three daughters, she has gone by Amalia since birth. Her two younger siblings are Princesses Alexia and Ariane. Her father once joked that his three daughters “The A-Team” all had names beginning with an ‘a’ to keep their “triple-A rating.” She will celebrate her Sweet 16 in December.
She currently attends Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The Hague.
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway:
Born on 21 January 2004, Princess Ingrid Alexandra is the elder child and only daughter of Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway. Her grandfather, King Harald is currently on the throne. She has one younger brother, Prince Sverre Magnus and one older half-brother from her mother’s previous relationship, Marius Borg Høiby.
The 15-year-old is attending the private Oslo International School where she undertakes courses in English to improve her skills in the language in preparation for her future role. She will be Norway’s second female monarch.
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, Photo: Julia Naglestad/Det kongelige hoff
Princess Leonor of Spain:
Leonor, who as heir holds the title Princess of Asturias, is the elder daughter of King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain. Her younger sister is Infanta Sofía.
The 13-year-old is only heir presumptive to the Spanish throne because if her parents were to have a boy, she would be bumped down to second in line as Spain still operates under male-preference cognatic primogeniture.
Turning 14 on 31 October, Leonor will be Spain’s first queen regnant since the 1800s when Queen Isabella II was on the throne.
Featured image: Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway. (Photo Julia Naglestad / Det kongelige hoff)
Source: Royal central
NordenBladet – It has been announced from Stockholm that the Swedish King and Queen will pay a State Visit to Ireland next month at the invitation of the Irish President, Michael D Higgins.
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia will be joined by representatives of the Swedish government including the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, Minister for Energy and Digital Development Anders Ygeman. Alongside the official talks, there will also be meetings between Irish businesses and a delegation organised by Business Sweden.
The visit, which is scheduled to take place between the 22nd and 24th May, is intended to strengthen the already strong ties between the two countries with a series of seminars, bilateral talks and cultural events. The agenda for the visit has not be released as yet, but it is envisaged it will cover digital development, sustainability, health and literature as well as increased cooperation through both the EU, UN and NATO.
This will not be the first time the King and Queen of Sweden have visited the Republic of Ireland. In April 1992 they were invited to Dublin by the then President Mary Robinson. There have also been Irish visits to Sweden. In 2012, the then Minister for Small Business, John Perry, TD, led a delegation from Enterprise Ireland to Stockholm at an event organised by the Irish Embassy. He spoke not only of the success of some Irish companies in exporting to Sweden, but also the strong links that had been established between Irish companies and successful Swedish companies including as Ericsson, Volvo and IKEA.
Once the itinerary of this new State Visit has been released, the information will be on Royal Central as with many of the State Visits that are being planned across the globe. And we will, of course, bring you the latest news when Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia arrive in Ireland in May.
Featured image: H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf; H.M. Queen Silvia (Kungahuset.se/Peter Knutson)
NordenBladet – The Royal Court confirmed to Swedish media late Wednesday evening that Prince Daniel is sick and has to cancel several events. On Tuesday, Prince Daniel attended his annual entrepreneurial day, and he seemed in good health. On Wednesday, Prince Daniel should have been present at the organisation, Friends’ event against bullying at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm; however, he had to cancel at the last minute.
The meeting Prince Daniel was to attend on Wednesday, with sixty representatives from business and civil society, was to discuss issues about measures and preventive measures against bullying.
The Swedish Royal Court has confirmed to the Swedish newspaper, Expressen that the Prince is sick. “The Prince had to cancel because of illness”, said Ulrika Näsholm, Information Secretary for the Royal Court, to the Swedish newspaper. Ulrika Näsholm also said: “The Prince could not participate in this arrangement unfortunately”.
The Royal Court indirectly confirmed that the sickness is not serious and that no other events are expected to be impacted by the Prince’s illness. The Swedish media did ask if there were any events in the coming days that are threatened. The Royal Court replied: “Not what I know, but it was today (Wednesday) he had to cancel his presence at this event. Unfortunately, I have no information, but the Prince had to cancel because of illness”.
The next event planned for Prince Daniel is, according to the Royal Court’s calendar, a visit to the Football Association in Solna on 24 April.
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland is a Swedish prince and member of the Swedish Royal Family. He is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria.
Featured image: The Royal Court, Sweden /Erika Gerdemark
NordenBladet – When Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria turned 40 in July 2017, it was marked with official festivities across Stockholm. But her brother, Prince Carl Philip, will be marking the occasion in a more low-key manner.
“There will be no official celebration of Prince Carl’s 40th birthday,” said Head of Information of the Royal Court, Margareta Thorgren, to Expressen.se, adding that the prince has chosen to celebrate his birthday privately.
Carl Philip was actually born as the country’s Crown Prince, but the laws of succession were changed on 1 January 1980. Then, Sweden officially recognised absolute primogeniture, meaning first-born females could now be heirs. This bumped the seven-month-old prince down the line and made his older sister, Victoria, heir to the Swedish throne.
As such, Crown Princess Victoria celebrated her milestone birthday in style with public celebrations and even her own hashtag: #Kronprinsessan40. The two-day birthday festivities included a service of thanksgiving attended by the Royal Court and government officials, a special reception, a 21-gun salute, carriage procession, and a concert.
When Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria turned 40 in July 2017, it was marked with official festivities across Stockholm. But her brother, Prince Carl Philip, will be marking the occasion in a more low-key manner.
“There will be no official celebration of Prince Carl’s 40th birthday,” said Head of Information of the Royal Court, Margareta Thorgren, to Expressen, adding that the prince has chosen to celebrate his birthday privately.
Carl Philip was actually born as the country’s Crown Prince, but the laws of succession were changed on 1 January 1980. Then, Sweden officially recognised absolute primogeniture, meaning first-born females could now be heirs. This bumped the seven-month-old prince down the line and made his older sister, Victoria, heir to the Swedish throne.
As such, Crown Princess Victoria celebrated her milestone birthday in style with public celebrations and even her own hashtag: #Kronprinsessan40. The two-day birthday festivities included a service of thanksgiving attended by the Royal Court and government officials, a special reception, a 21-gun salute, carriage procession, and a concert.
Since Prince Carl Philip is not the heir, this level of public celebration doesn’t exactly make sense, but surely well wishes for the Prince will pour in on social media as they did for Crown Princess Victoria.
“I think you can expect a party for friends and family of course, but much more toned than when Victoria turned 40 years,” said Swedish newspaper Expressen‘s royal columnist Karin Lennmor. “If you compare with the Crown Princess Victoria where it really was a big hit, Prince Carl Philip’s birthday will be a bit calmer.”
It might depend on your definition of “calmer.” According to weekly women’s magazine Svensk Damtidning, he ended his 25th birthday party with a trip to A&E when he slid down the staircase of Tullgarn Palace on a silver tray. One can only hope the Prince continues the merriment into his fourth decade.
Featured image: Sweden´s Prince Carl Philip with wife Princess Sofia (NordenBladet) Source: royalcentral.co.uk
NordenBladet – What will life be like in 2050? Read 87 predictions for 2050, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways; this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.
Most of the fish stocks that existed in 2015 are now extinct.
5 billion of the world’s projected 9.7 billion people now live in water-stressed areas.
Nearly 2 billion people now live in countries with absolute water scarcity, mostly in the Middle East and North African regions.
6 million people now die per year from complications with air pollution.
Neurotechnologies enable users to interact with their environment and other people by thought alone.
6.3 billion people will live in cities.
Half of the world’s population will be short-sighted
Toyota stops selling gasoline cars
Coffee becomes a luxury due to climate change and the loss of suitable farming land
Skyscrapers (an arcology) that function as cities are built to address growing populations
Athabasca Glacier disappears by losing 5 metres per year since 2015
China’s “South-to-North Water Transfer Project” is fully built
World population forecasted to reach 9,725,147,000
Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 90 per cent
World sales of electric vehicles reaches 26,366,667
(Moore’s Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^23 (equal to all human brain power globally)
Average number of connected devices, per person, is 25
Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 237,500,000,000
Worst case forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 2.5 degrees Celsius
Forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 2 degrees Celsius
Optimistic forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 1.89 degrees Celsius
Largest age cohort for the Brazilian population is 45-49
Largest age cohort for the Mexican population is 50-54
Largest age cohort for the Middle East population is 35-44
Largest age cohort for the African population is 0-4
Largest age cohort for the European population is 60-64
Largest age cohort for the Indian population is 35-39
Largest age cohort for the Chinese population is 60-64
Largest age cohort for the United States population is 20-34
NordenBladet – Crown Prince Haakon of Norway is continuing his visit to the Pacific region. On Monday, he arrived in Fiji and was received in a traditional ceremony. The Crown Prince landed on Monday morning at Nausori airport outside Suva. There he inspected an honorary guard of the nation’s troops accompanied by the Chief of Defence, Viliame Naupoto.
The Crown Prince then travelled on to the capital Suva where he was welcomed in the traditional way, with flower wreaths and a cavalry ceremony. After the ceremony, the Crown Prince attended a meeting with President Jioji Konrote in his residence, Borron House. Co-operation between Norway and Fiji in matters of sea and climate were important topics in the conversation between the two.
Following the meeting with the president Crown Prince Haakon also met with Prime Minister Josaia Bainimarama, who also hosted a reception on the occasion of the visit. In his speech during the reception, the Crown Prince emphasized Fiji’s important leadership in ocean and climate issues and looked forward to further cooperation on these issues which are so central to both countries.
The Crown Prince said: ”It is a great pleasure for me and the entire delegation to be here in Fiji – to see your beautiful country, to listen and learn about your society and history. Thank you for the warm hospitality you have shown us”.
Crown Prince Haakon continued: “Fiji and Norway are far apart in geographical terms. We come from the cold north of Europe. Here in the South Pacific we have been given a very warm welcome – and we feel that we are among friends with shared interests. Our countries may be small in terms of land mass, but we are both large ocean states. The oceans are essential to our livelihoods and history. The oceans connect us”.
Crown Prince Haakon will continue his visit on Fiji on Tuesday. This royal visit is taking in the nations of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa between 5 April and 11 April. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen partnerships with small island states in the South Pacific for the promotion of common interests including seas and climate, peace and security. Royal Central will follow the visit closely and bring you the latest news from Crown Prince Haakon’s tour.
Featured image: Crown Prince Haakon meeting President Jioji Konrote. The president handed over a boat model to the Crown Prince. (Photo: Sven Gj. Gjeruldsen, The Royal Court)
NordenBladet – On Friday, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway began his visit to the Pacific region. His first stop was Tonga where he was warmly welcomed by King Tupou. During the weekend His Royal Highness has highlighted climate change in Tonga.
On Saturday, Crown Prince Haakon and Norway’s Development Minister, Dag-Inge Ulstein, saw the effects of climate change on Tongatapu up close. When the glaciers in the north and south melt, the sea rises far more here than in other parts of the world. The Crown Prince also visited Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister, Semisi Sika, on Saturday. Common challenges with climate and ocean health were topics in the conversation between the two.
Crown Prince Haakon met some of the worried villagers at ‘Ahau Beach and Kolovai Beach. They told the royal about the sea that slowly rises and penetrates into their gardens. At ‘Ahau, residents have begun planting mangroves to protect the coastline. The mangroves thrive with plenty of water, and their root system helps to bind and stabilize the soil.
Climate change is something the Crown Prince takes very seriously. To Norwegian NTB, the Crown Prince said: “Both the ocean rising, but also the storms that come and destroy the communities, affect people’s lives to a large extent. That makes an impression on me”.
Crown Prince Haakon then visited the village of Houma. Lord Vaea was the host and guide for the Crown Prince. The visit to Houma concluded the Crown Prince`s visit to Tonga. Before his departure, he had dinner with local youth where they discussed climate change. The Crown Prince then continued to the airport where he was wished a safe trip to his next stop, Fiji.
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway will visit the nations of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. The visit will run from 5 April to 11 April. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen partnerships with small island states in the South Pacific for the promotion of common interests including seas and climate, peace and security. Royal Central will follow the visit closely and bring you the latest news from Crown Prince Haakon’s tour.
Featured image: Crown Prince Haakon during his visit to Houma. (Sven Gj. Gjeruldsen / The Royal Court / Det Kongelige Hoff)
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel attended the launch of the Pep Report on Wednesday in Stockholm, which saw the results of a survey of 11,000 young people in Sweden – questioning their physical activity and approach to health – published.
“Generation Pep works to ensure that all children and young people in Sweden have the opportunity and the desire to live an active and healthy life,” according to its official website.
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel founded Generation Pep in July 2016 as a way to encourage a healthier lifestyle in Sweden’s young people and have since championed its initiatives.
The report compiles the results of 11,000 children surveyed between the ages of four to 17-years-old, along with their guardians to see “how the children move, what they eat and how factors around it are connected with living habits.”
The major findings of the Pep Report are as follows:
A larger proportion of respondents said they do 60 minutes of physical activity per day.
Most respondents participate in organised physical activity, but it’s dependent on socioeconomic factors and participation drops off after the children turn ten.
Children know they should eat well, but few are doing so. “Only four out of ten children have indicated that they eat vegetables every day and two-thirds say they usually or almost always eat white bread.”
The majority of respondents say that they spend three or more hours each day sitting in front of a screen outside class time.
Only four out of ten young people say that they participate in physical activity outside of school, but it varies greatly by age group.
Young people need adult role models to emulate healthy behaviour. “Children of active parents move more themselves, and children who eat dinner with adults receive more vegetables and fish.”
The Pep Report finds that:
“Children and young people in Sweden today move too little and often eat too little… Because there are so few children and young people who meet the recommendations when it comes to food and physical activity, the problems are not something that only concerns a particular group in society, but they are relevant to all of us. At the same time, we see that children who grow up under different socio-economic conditions have different opportunities to be physically active and eat healthily and in the adult population this is reflected in differences in the incidence of several serious diseases and in life expectancy.”
As for a way to move forward, Generation Pep writes that:
“The challenges are too big not to be taken seriously…but the development can be reversed. To succeed, we believe that the required direction and clear level of ambition from the national level, supported by the UN global goal. Several countries have adopted clear national frameworks and strategies, but those clear common guidelines are still lacking in Sweden. Many studies have made to investigate what are effective efforts to promote healthy behaviours and there are evidence-based measures to use within maternity care, child health care, preschool, school, association life, business and industry through political instruments. With clear coordination and prioritization of the issue, we have good hope of seeing a positive development in the coming years’ reports.”
Featured image: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden (NordenBladet)
NordenBladet – Finland is number one in the newest Good Country Index, which seeks to measure “what each country on earth contributes to the good of humanity.” We talk to the index’s creator, Simon Anholt, about what it means to be “goodest.”
So many international rankings and reports exist. What sets the Good Country Index apart from the Global Competitiveness Index, the Prosperity Index, the World Happiness Report, the Environmental Performance Index and all the others?
The Good Country Index takes stock of 35 measurements that show countries’ contributions in seven different categories: science and technology; culture; peace and security; world order; planet and climate; prosperity and equality; and health and wellbeing.
In addition, and perhaps most importantly, the Good Country Index is all about what nations do for the rest of the world, not about what happens within their own borders.
“Pretty much every single one of [the other indexes] looks at countries’ internal performance in one way or another,” says Anholt. “Consequently, [they] treat the world as if it were made of entirely separate independent islands of humanity that have nothing to do with each other.”
Since the 1990s, London-based Anholt has advised the leaders of more than 50 countries in what became known as nation branding. In 2005 he founded the Anholt Nation Brands Index. Gradually perceiving a need for a new kind of study, he inaugurated the Good Country Index in 2014. (Finland was second that year.)
“Because we live in a massively interconnected, interdependent age, an age of advanced globalisation, it also made a lot of sense to look at how countries affect each other and affect the whole system,” he says.
While the Good Country Index gathers an immense amount of data, he characterises it as “a toe in the water;” it has limitations. “Reducing a country’s impact on the world to 35 data sets is obviously just a hint.”
The index also offers opportunities: “It is supposed to be the start of a new kind of conversation. The reason for it is to get people to start asking new questions about countries.”
This holds true no matter where your country ranks. In fact, the word “ranking” is misleading. The Good Country Index aims to encourage conversation, collaboration and cooperation, rather than competition to see who “wins” the rankings race.
“I’m not judging,” says Anholt. For this reason, the various categories of data aren’t weighted in the overall results. “I publish it in the form of a ranking because that’s the easiest way to crunch all of that data and present people with an overall picture.” A comparative listing gets people discussing the results.
After the release of the first edition of the index, Australian political activists told him they used the data matrix of the Good Country Index to focus questions for election candidates about how they would address certain categories in which the country was underperforming. “It’s a tool,” says Anholt. “If people do choose to use it to hold their governments to account, then that’s great. That means it’s working.” Finland is holding parliamentary elections in April 2019, and European Parliament elections happen in May 2019.
While the Good Country Index aims to encourage discussion and cooperation, it’s not against the idea of competition. If countries vie to be the “goodest,” that’s healthy.
“Competition is fine,” says Anholt. “It’s a very effective driver, but it only becomes a problem when it’s the only altar at which we worship, and that’s the case for most countries most of the time.” He believes that “the culture of governance worldwide” can shift from fundamentally competitive to fundamentally collaborative.
Work together a little more, compete against each other a little less; this is his straightforward suggestion. The Nordic countries, who possess a long history of regional cooperation, often find themselves at the top of the index (the newest results put Sweden, Denmark and Norway in third, fifth and seventh place).
What’s good for your neighbours and the rest of the world is frequently good for you, too. “You often end up doing better work domestically because you’re drawing inspiration and experience from other countries,” Anholt says. “You’re sharing good ideas.”
Out of the seven categories in the Good Country Index, Finland places highest in prosperity and equality, in which it is second. The 35 subcategories include birth rate; ecological footprint; renewable energy; giving to charity; accumulated Noble Prizes; creative goods exports; humanitarian aid donations; and number of UN volunteers sent abroad.
Finland’s strong suits are freedom of movement; press freedom; number of patents; number of international publications; foreign direct investment outflow; food aid funding; compliance with environmental agreements; and cybersecurity. One area for improvement is international students: Finland is famous for its education system, but figures indicate it should do more to attract foreign students.
“My message to Finland is the same message I would give to any country that comes top of the index,” says Anholt. “This is not a reward. Who am I to reward a country for its behaviour? This is a message about your obligations.”
Doing well in the Good Country Index indicates that a nation is good at collaborating and has “figured out a few things” that some of the others haven’t, says Anholt. It should “continue to demonstrate the benefit – domestic and international – of enhanced cooperation and collaboration.”
It’s about countries “making [themselves] willing and available to work with other countries,” says Anholt. “So it’s an opportunity for Finland to start working with other countries in a new way.”
“Countries working together” has hardly been a common rallying cry among politicians in recent years. We constantly hear the word “polarisation” in the news.
“If this isn’t the most obvious case for more cooperation and more collaboration, then what is?” asks Anholt. He’s talking about cooperation between people who are concerned about the world as a whole and those who focus more on their own countries. Both have validity, he says. “It’s very important that the Good Country Index doesn’t become another piece of tribalism.”
The measurements in the index point to difficult questions about climate change, human migration, healthcare, poverty and more. How do you stay positive when your work involves delving into these stats?
You create a country. In Anholt’s newest project, he and American Madeline Hung have co-founded the Good Country, most easily described as a virtual country, “to prove that if countries learn to work together, then we will start to make real progress.” Anyone who wants to participate in solving global challenges can sign up online and become a citizen.
In real life, Finland will continue to consider how its actions can contribute to humanity. At the moment, that’s the “goodest” thing to do.
Source: Finland.fi (By Peter Marten, January 2019)
NordenBladet – What is success? There are many definitions, but there’s one thing all the greats agree on: Success only comes by persevering despite failure. Here are 58 quotes to inspire you to succeed in the face of failures, setbacks, and barriers.
1. “Rich people have an action mentality… while average people have a lottery mentality.”
— Helena-Reet Ennet
2. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
3. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
— Colin R. Davis
4. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
5. “Let no one discourage your ambitious attitude. Be your own motivation, be passionate and bold!”
— Estella Elisheva
6. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
–John D. Rockefeller
7. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
— Thomas Jefferson
8. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
— Ray Goforth
9. “Remember, the wealthy focus on earning! In the minds of millionaires, leverage is everything.”
— Helena-Reet Ennet
10. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
11. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
— Winston Churchill
12. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”
— Tony Hsieh
13. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
14. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
— G. K. Chesterton
15. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”
— Thomas J. Watson
16. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
– Jim Rohn
17. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”
— Anonymous
18. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
— Anonymous
19. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
— Michael John Bobak
20. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
— Tony Robbins
21. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
22. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
— Steve Jobs
23. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
— Barack Obama
24. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
25. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
— Helen Keller
26. “Happiness is a mindset as quality is a result of excellence, best ingredients and high standards . When you mix happiness with high quality you’ ll create a unique formula of success, healthy lifestyle and ultimate satisfaction!”
— Ivanka Shoshana
27. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
— Bruce Lee
28. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
— Colin Powell
29. “Creativity is critical to financial success! The rich know their most valuable asset is their ability to think, and because they use their mental powers so often, they become very good at it. Build your thinking muscles by pushing yourself every day to solve new problems that are directly related to amassing wealth.”
— Helena-Reet Ennet
30. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
— Jim Rohn
31. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”
— Herbert Bayard Swope
32. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
— Albert Schweitzer
33. “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
— Unknown
34. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb
35. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”
— Unknown
36. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
— Walt Disney
37. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
— Unknown
38. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.”
— David Brinkley
39. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
— Bill Cosby
40. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
41. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas Edison
42. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
— Zig Ziglar
43. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.
44. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
— Oprah Winfrey
45. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
— Anthony Robbins
46. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
— Aristotle Onassis
47. “I failed my way to success.”
— Thomas Edison
48. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
— Estee Lauder
49. “It´s not about the ideas. It´s about making the ideas HAPPEN! Follow your dreams!”
Estella Elisheva
50. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vidal Sassoon
51. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
— Charles F. Kettering
52. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
— Chris Grosser
53. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”
— Thomas Edison
54. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney
55. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
— Jim Rohn
56. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
— Conrad Hilton
57. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston S. Churchill
58. “When becoming a billionaire is your priority number one then what would be your priority number two? Correct, there is none! You must understand one thing – there is no such thing in the world as a free lunch – as few as 0,0000272% of the world population are billionaires and this mean you would need to sacrifice something.”
— Helena-Reet Ennet
What’s your favorite success quote?
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