Success Quotes
February 2010
“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
- Arnold H. Glasow “If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
- Epictetus “A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.”
- Fred Thompson “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson “How far you go in life depends on being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong - because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
- George Washington Carver
January 2010
“Opportunity is around you all the time, but you have to be ready for it. When your chance comes, you must be prepared to take advantage of it.”
- Max Steingart
“There is no sudden leap to greatness. Your success lies in doing, day by day. Your upward reach comes from working well and carefully. Good work done little by little becomes great work. Your house of success will be built brick by brick.”
- Max Steingart “The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.”
- Confucius “Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.”
- Albert Gray “What is there to do with life but to live it to the fullest?”
- Arnold Glasow
December 2009
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
-Mahtma Gandhi
“High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.”
- Robert Schuller “The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.”
- William Mather Lewis
November 2009
“The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical."
- Julius Erving
October 2009
“Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.”
- Vince Lombardi “Nothing, not even sheer ability, can make up for the dedication required for success.”
- Ray Eppert “High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.”
- Robert Schuller “The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.”
- William F. Scolavino “A successful life is not an easy life. It is built upon strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty, and integrity”
- Grant D. Brandon “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger “We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
- Henry David Thoreau “It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best’. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
September 2009
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
- Mario Andretti “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
- Dale Carnegie “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
- William Feather “Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
- John Wooden “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 “Success is not the key to happiness - happiness is the key to success.”
- Herman Cain
August 2009
“Failure is the path of least persistence!"
- Unknown Author “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln “The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am."
- Ted Turner “In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
- Andre Gide “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
- John F. Kennedy “Most successful [people] have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.”
- Bruce Barton
July 2009
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”
- Richard David Bach “The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”
- Ben Stein "Success without fulfillment is failure."
- Tony Robbins “Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
- F. Hawes “I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
- Brian Tracy
June 2009
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
- Orison Swett Marden “Excellence can be obtained if you:...care more than others think is wise;...risk more than others think is safe;...dream more than others think is practical;...expect more than others think is possible.”
- Author Unknown “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
- Eric Hoffer “You can’t figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past”
- Roger Lewin “The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
- William F. Scolavino "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
- Theodore Roosevelt
May 2009
“Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.”
- Don Shula “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. “The best in all endeavors, the superstars in every arena, do more, practice more, train more, and prepare more than anyone else.”
- Unknown Author “You can’t just ‘do the best you can’ if you want to be successful. You must strive to ‘do the best that can be done’.”
- Jimmy DeMesa, M.D. "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm Forbes "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden
April 2009
“The biggest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”
- Ashley Montague “On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong”.
- John Ruskin “Opportunity is around you all the time, but you have to be ready for it ... The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. The tide of opportunity comes to everyone. Even to you.”
- Max Steingart “Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.”
- Brian Tracy "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas A. Edison
March 2009
 “For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.”
- Og Mandino
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. So, it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Anonymous "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu; The Art of War "Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln "People who don't make goals end up working for those who do."
- Jack Canfield
February 2009
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”
- Vincent T. Lombardi “The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.”
- Mark Caine “The courage to begin always separates dreamers from achievers. Your willingness to act, to overcome inertia, is your first step on the path to success. You're surrounded by opportunities to be successful. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put your plan into action. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you are, and work with the tools you have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. The first step is the hardest. But you must take it. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
- Max Steingart
January 2009
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
- Christopher Morley "Success is a journey, not a destination.”
- Ben Sweetland "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right."
- Edward Simmons “The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't
work - if you won't.”
- Zig Ziglar
December 2008
 “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
- Albert Schweitzer “The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
- Dale Carnegie “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 “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”
- Vince Lombardi “As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall.”
- Anonymous
November 2008
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others
have let go"
- William Feather “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 "The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious"
- Oswald Spengler “Every successful [person] I have heard of has done the best he [or she] could with the conditions as he [or she] found them and not waited until the next year for better”
- Edgar Watson Howe “The great secret of success in life is to be ready when opportunity comes”
- Benjamin Disraeli October 2008
 "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."
- Isaac Newton
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahtma Gandhi
"The measure of a [person] is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on."
-Tex Cobb
"Success doesn't 'happen.' It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense."
- F.E. Willard
"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments."
- Napoleon Hill
September 2008
"The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing."
- Lance Armstrong
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi “I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.”
- Mike Ditka "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
- Henry David Thoreau "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
- Paulo Coelho “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
- Lou Holtz “If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
- Robert Schuller “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.”
- William Durant "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere."
- Frank A. Clark "Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius"
- Benjamin Disraeli “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do to be it.”
- Epictetus “The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.”
- W.J. Davison “Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”
- Russell W. Davenport "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle “Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”
- Nolan Bushnell “The courage to begin always separates dreamers from achievers. Your willingness to act, to overcome inertia, is your first step on the path to success. You're surrounded by opportunities to be successful. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires andbegin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put your plan into action. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you are, and work with the tools you have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. The first step is the hardest. But you must take it. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
- Max Steingart August 2008
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”
- John D. Rockefeller III "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm Forbes “The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going g to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am."
- Ted Turner “The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.”
- Thomas Edison “Success doesn't ‘happen’. It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense.”
- F.E. Willard “In times of change learners inherit the earth, whilethe learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”- Eric Hoffer "Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough."
- Karl Rove “The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.”
- William F. Scolavino “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- Helen Keller "When you're hot keep shooting, when you're not keep shooting 'till you get hot."
- Bernie Stein “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin “For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.”
- Og Mandino "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
- Theodore Roosevelt "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. So, it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Anonymous "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu; The Art of War "Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln "People who don't make goals end up working for those who do."
- Jack Canfield
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