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Success depends upon previous preparation,
by Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Related topics: Motivational

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius PHOTO

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius PHOTO

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

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The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie




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