Success Quotes

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

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

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

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

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The road to success is always under construction.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The best revenge is massive success.

I will find a way — or make one.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

There must be more to life than having everything.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Give light and people will find the way.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Failure is success in progress

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

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

Failure is not an option.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

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.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

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.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

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.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

I dreamt — marvellous error! — that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Never, never, never give up.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

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

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

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.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

The world belongs to the energetic.

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

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.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

If you rest, you rust.

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.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Success has always been a great liar.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Step by step and the thing is done.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Celebrate your people's success, not your own.

Life is an incurable disease.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

The easiest way to make money is -create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.

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

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

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

For they conquer who believe they can.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

No pressure, no diamonds.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

Survival is triumph enough.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Success is the child of audacity.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

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

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, youve got it made.

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

What helps people, helps business.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We'll set a limit when we're ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There's something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we're controlling others, but because we've changed.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance.... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous — on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

Success is dependent on effort.

My definition of success is control.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

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

Success is the sum of details.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

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

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

There is no success without hardship.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The journey is my home.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

What you get free costs too much.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

We must do the best we can with what we have.

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Success is a great deodorant.

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Nothing recedes like success.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

There is always room at the top.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.