"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try please everyone."
-- Bill Cosby
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...on your powers, instead of your problems."
-- Paul J. Meyer
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
-- An Wang
Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a
champion."
-- Greg Werner
"I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure."
-- Glen Seaborg
Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible.
"Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement."
-- Grover Cleveland
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
-- Calvin Coolidge
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan
"What people can dream, people can do."
-- George W. Bush
"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
-- Colin Powell
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
-- Vince Lombardi
"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it."
-- Bunker Hunt
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through."
-- F.W. Nichol
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"
-- Brian Tracy
"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
-- Andre Maurois
"Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside."
-- Chris Messina
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
-- Bill Bradley
"When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success."
-- John O'Hurley
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better."
-- Samuel Beckett
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody."
-- Herbert B. Swope
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
-- George Burns
"The road to success ... is always under construction."
-- George Lehmann
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
-- Maya Angelou
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
-- Mary Tyler Moore
"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms."
-- Harrison Ford
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-- Thomas A. Edison
"You always pass failure on the way to success."
-- Mickey Rooney
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
"We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes."
-- Randy K. Milholland
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
-- Booker T. Washington
"Passion + A Good Work Ethic + Good Decisions in Your Personal Life = Success"
-- Dick Vitale
"People can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm."
-- Charles Schwab
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."
-- Marcel Proust
"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
-- Charles Kendall Adams
Success is just around the corner for the person who refuses to quit.
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can."
-- Michael Korda
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
-- Johnny Carson
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
-- Pablo Picasso
"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"Success is not forever, and failure isn't fatal."
-- Don Shula
"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self confident, and more and more successful.
-- Mark Victor Hansen
“Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.”
--
Jennifer James
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