Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Related topics: Motivational
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- 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
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
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- 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
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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- 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."
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
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
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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