Success

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

Most successful men 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

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 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

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. -Christopher Morley

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. -Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. -Jim Rohn

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. -Robert Collier

Success doesn't come to you…you go to it. -Marva Collins

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

Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland

If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. -Jim Rohn

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. -Edward Simmons

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

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. -Charles Kendall Adams

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

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. -Jim Rohn

My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward. -David Thomas

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. -Jim Rohn

Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life. -Laing Burns, Jr.

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. -Dell Crossword

Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road. -Laing Burns, Jr.

There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit. -Laing Burns, Jr.

Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family. -Mahabharata

When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in. -Aeschylus

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us. -George Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. -Woody Allen

A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead. -Anonymous

A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job. -Anonymous

Act as though it is impossible to fail. -Anonymous

An Unfailing Success Plan: At each day’s end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them. -Anonymous

As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall. -Anonymous

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success. -Anonymous

Confidence is the companion of success. -Anonymous

My goal is to translate response into results. Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me. -Jim Rohn

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. -Anonymous

Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else. -Anonymous

The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘What am I getting?”. The most important question to ask is “What am I becoming?” -Jim Rohn

If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised. -Anonymous

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail. -Anonymous

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. -Anonymous

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. -Anonymous

No one can change another person’s beliefs. But you can be accepting of his beliefs and then slowly build an influence for the other person to change himself. -Anonymous

Success comes before work only in the dictionary. -Anonymous

Success is not access to excess. -Anonymous

Success is still the constant application of the Golden Rule. -Anonymous

Take Time:

Take time to think-

It is the source of all power.

Take time to read-

It is the fountain of wisdom.

Take time to play-

It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to be quiet-

It is the opportunity to seek God.

Take time to be aware-

It is the opportunity to help others.

Take time to love and be loved-

It is God’s greatest gift.

Take time to laugh-

It is the music of the soul.

Take time to be friendly-

It is the road to happiness.

Take time to dream-

It is what the future is made of.

Take time to pray-

It is the greatest power on earth.

Take time to give-

It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to work-

It is the price of success.

There is a time for everything. . . .(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) -Bible

The Lord gives us a plan to follow. It is outlined in His commandments. And all those commandments are designed to build stability within us. We are not to excuse our failures and weaknesses: We are not to say we are made the way we are, and thereby justify our sins. The Lord expects us to rise above our weakness, become strong, and pattern ourselves after Him. -Anonymous

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success. -Anonymous

Life asks us to make measurable progress in a reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chairs so small. -Jim Rohn

Two rules of success in life: 1. don’t tell people everything you know. -Anonymous

Yesterday's failures are today's seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success. -Anonymous

You cannot sit on the road to success for if you do, you will get run over. -Anonymous

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much. -Anonymous

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. -H.W. Arnold
 
Part of success is preparation on purpose. -Jim Rohn

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. -Arthur Ashe
 
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic — something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, and train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word “decide” contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. -Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -Roger Ward Babson

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.  -Bernard Mannes Baruch

If there is any one axiom that I have tried to live up to in trying to become successful in business, it is the fact that I have tried to surround myself with associates that know more about business than I do. This policy has always been very successful and is still working for me. -Monte L. Bean

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. -Alexander Graham Bell

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. -Irving Berlin

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. -Al Bernstein

If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy. -H. Duane Black

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. -Sarah Knowles Bolton

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -Erma Bombeck

Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods. -Frank E. Brennan

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. -Dr. Joyce Brothers

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. -Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Success is the study of the Obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school. -Jim Rohn

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit—that is the way to wealth that is the way to wisdom that is the way to glory. -Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Herman Cain

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. -Philip Caldwell

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass. -Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. -Albert Camus

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. -Eddie Cantor

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. -Andrew Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. -Dale Carnegie

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

When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here—namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition. -Jack Mack Carter

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Winston Churchill

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. -Winston Churchill

There are men in the world who derive exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. -Winston Churchill

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. -Bourke Cockran

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

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

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do. -Paul Cummings

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. -Anthony D'Angelo

Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. -Walt Disney

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. -Benjamin Disraeli

The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information. -Benjamin Disraeli

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. -Benjamin Disraeli

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

Self-trust is the first secret of success. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. -Sherman Finesilver

Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal. -Gustave Flaubert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -B.C. Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it. -Malcolm Forbes

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. -Henry Ford

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Gagehot

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. -J.Paul Getty

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character. -Vince Gill

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. -Jean Giraudoux

The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement. -Goethe

Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do. -Albert Gray

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. -Haldane

Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory. -Orison Sweet Marden

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.- Robert Collier

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. -Thomas Edison

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

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. -Mark Victor Hansen

To succeed, you must first improve, to improve, you must first practice, to practice, you must first learn, to learn, you must first fail. 

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