"The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."
-- Herbert N. Casson
"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-- Calvin Coolidge
With knowledge comes opportunity. With perseverance comes success."
-- J.C. Johnstone
"There is nothing more certain than the failure of the man who gives up or the success of the man who will not."
-- Dr. George Sheehan
"Facing it, always facing it, that is the way to get through it. Face it."
-- Joseph Conrad
"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done', I know I'm close to success."
-- Michael Flatley
"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."
-- James Allen
"Success is similar to the remedy to a common cold. You have to FEED the FAITH and STARVE the DOUBT."
-- Andre Vieira
"Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism."
-- Charles 'Tremendous' Jones
"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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
-- John Burroughs
"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for."
-- Florence Scovel Shinn
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
-- Diane Ackerman
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
-- Stephen A. Brennan
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
-- Arthur Ashe
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things that you did do. So throw off the bowliness. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain
"People fail forward to success."
-- Mary Kay Ash
"The toughest thing about being a 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."
-- Irving Berlin
It is never to late to be what you might have been.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-- Winston Churchill
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
-- Jean Cocteau
"Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success has been dependent on the one he used most."
-- George Kirkpatrick
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
-- William Feather
"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."
-- Walter Winchell
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish. It's measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain your struggle against the odds."
-- Jerry Frenz, Daily Motivator
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
"One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best."
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life, and the tragic brevity of time."
-- W.J. Davison
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
-- General George S. Patton
"People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success."
-- Pete Zafra
"In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
-- Jim Rohn
"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-- William Shakespeare
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."
-- Bo Bennett
"No pressure, no diamonds."
-- Thomas Carlyle
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
-- Bob Dylan
"You can either allow your circumstances to be a trap and ensnare you for the rest of your life, or you can use them to learn what it takes to succeed in a world where things won't always go your way."
-- Lenny Wilkens
"I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself."
-- Margaret Cho
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan
"It is the follow through that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop."
-- Charles F. Kettering
"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
-- Arthur Rubinstein
"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."
-- Dorothea Brande
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford
"The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments."
-- David J. Schwartz
"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
-- Lloyd Jones
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
-- Herbert Kaufman
"There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence"
-- Vince Lombardi
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
-- Vince Lombardi
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
-- Francis Bacon
"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."
-- Walt Disney
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