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Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Related topics: Motivational
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
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
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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- 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
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
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
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- 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
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
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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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 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 boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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