There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard
Big shots are only little shots who keep on shooting.
- William Faulkner
Success depends on what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- John Michener
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
- Walter Cronkite
If at first you do succeed … try to hide your astonishment
Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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 one has overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
When everyone is smiling; you are happy.
When everyone respects you; you are a success.
- Ian Press
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
- Dr. Jonas Salk
Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.
- Mike Dikta
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
Start where you are, use what you’ve got, and do what you can.
- Arthur Ashe, when asked how to be great
The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
Secret to success: Do the common things uncommonly well.
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
- Martina Navratilova
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ronald E. Osborn
In my working life, I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealings and strict adherence to the view that for you to gain, those you deal with should gain, as well.
- Alan Greenspan
The secret of success is to put your heart, mind, intellect and soul into even your smallest acts.
- Sivananda Sarasvati
This is the foundation of success - having confidence in yourself and applying yourself with all your might to your work.
- Thomas E. Wilson
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
- Sir William Osler
Greatness comes to light - not in the flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of daily work.
- Beryl Markham
The secret of success is to start from scratch, and keep on scratching.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- Gen. George Patton
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more practice and patience would have achieved success.
Success:
1. The realization of the estimate which you place upon yourself.
2. The good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes us successful is not what we are striving for. It's what we learn by the striving itself.
- Grant M. Bright
The banquet is laid but nobody comes.
- The Bible (A banquet of opportunities exists all around you - open your eyes)
There's only one success in life, and that's to live your own life in such a way that a skilled mortician is going to have a very tough time wiping that grin from your face.
- Rosita Perez
Most people are injured more by success than they are by failure.
- Michael Landon
If you lean in the direction of success, you will make progress even when you fall.
- Grant M. Bright
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The right place, at the right time, with the right people, doing the right things, for the right reason.
People who never do more than they get paid for, never get paid for anything more than they do.
- Kemmons Wilson, Founder, Holiday Inns
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
When we count our many blessings;
it isn't hard to see
that life's most valued treasures
are the treasures that are free.
For it isn't what we own or buy
that signifies our wealth.
It's the special gifts that have no price:
our family, friends and health.
What makes a person great?
1. Honesty and Integrity
2. Consistency of Effort
3. Energy and a "Can-Do" Attitude
4. Faith and Confidence
5. Empathy and Acceptance
6. Balance and Moderation
7. Generosity and a Willingness to Share
- Tim O'Brien
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
THREE GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF LIFE:
1. DON'T HURT YOURSELF AND DON'T HURT OTHERS.
This begins at the physical level: don't hit people; don't steal from them; don't hit yourself in the head with a hammer. These are fairly easy to define. Then it moves to a more subtle level: don't put things in your body you know are not good for you; keep your body away from situations you know aren't good for it, etc. It continues onto mental and emotional levels: don't judge yourself or others; knock off the guilts and resentments.
2. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF SO YOU MAY HELP TAKE CARE OF OTHERS.
Physically: get enough (but not too much) food, enough water, enough exercise, enough rest. Mentally and emotionally: praise yourself for work well done; enjoy each moment; love yourself. If you're not taking care of yourself first, you won't be able to help take care of others. If you really don't take care of yourself, others will be helping to take care of you.
3. USE EVERYTHING FOR YOUR UPLIFTMENT, LEARNING, AND GROWTH.
Everything. Everything. EVERYTHING. No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb, or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable, or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
- LIFE 101 by Peter McWilliams (author of at least five major bestsellers which you can read on his website by clicking HERE
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You are successful the moment you start moving forward a worthwhile goal.
- Charles Carson
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Success, if it is to be - it is up to me.
Mistakes are made and lessons are learned. But a man without mistakes is a man without success!
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
Success is a journey, not a destination."
AND THEN SOME ...
These Three little words are the secret to success. There are the difference between average people and top people in most companies. The top people always do what is expected... and then some... They are thoughtful of others; they are considerate and kind ...and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely... and then some. They are good friends and helpful neighbors... and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency... and then some... I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world more livable. Their spirit of service is summed up in these little words... and then some.
- Carl Holmes
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
Success has made failures of many men.
- Cindy Adams
Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
- Michael S. Ludlow
Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.
- Richard C. Cabot
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were tolling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Many times the difference between failure and success is doing something nearly right ... or doing it exactly right.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
- Booker T. Washington
A successful life is not an easy life. It is built upon strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty, integrity.
- Grant D. Brandon
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
- Edward C. Simmons
Success is the reward for accomplishment.
- Harry F. Banks
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
- Emily Dickinson
Run the risk of being successful
- Ronald Riggs
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
Some succeed because they are destined to,
But most succeed because they are determined to.
There is nothing as vulnerable as entrenched success.
- Ralph Nader
Success is measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles one has overcome.
10 SECRETS TO SUCCESS:
"Success? To be totally engaged with all my functions, all my faculties, all my capabilities in life. To me that would be success. You should be looking for the joy, the struggle, and the challenge of work. What you bring forth from your own guts and heart. The happiness of hard work. No amount of money can buy that. Those are things of the spirit."
- Jacob Needleman, author of "Money & The Meaning of Life"
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.
- John Foster Dulles
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
- Mark Caine
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trail and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
READ. SUCCEED.
If you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
- Zig Ziglar
Chance favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
Ten Keys to Life Fulfillment:
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Think of the game of Monopoly. At the end of the game it really doesn't matter how much you won, how many things you owned, or how much power you had accumulated. At the end of the game, it all goes back in the box. What really will count at the end of the game when you are finally lowered in the box?
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.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in the common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in an individual's determination.
Success is more attitude than aptitude.
Success is never final.
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Those with a job survived the Great Depression. Those with a craft succeeded.
Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Some people focus on what they're going through; champions focus on what they are going to.
You may be capable of great things,
The height of great men reached and kept was not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
One may conquer the highest mountain one step at a time.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
- George Halas
There is no success without hardship.
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.
Excellence is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, determined effort, and skilled execution.
Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain an grabs one.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
It is the last step in a race that counts. It is the last stroke on the nail that counts. Many a prize has been lost just when it was ready to be plucked.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.
Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft:
Three definitions of SUCCESS:
- Vince Lombardi
- Tommy Lasorda
- Bill Parcells, Coach, Jets
- Chinese Proverb
- Lawrence Shames
- Vidal Sassoon
- Joseph Joubert
- H.T. Leslie
But life consists of small things.
- Deng Ming-Dao
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Mark Twain
- Sophocles
- Jeremy Collier
- William Feather
- Charles E. Popplestone
- H. Jackson Brown
- Francis Bacon
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
- Don Shula
1. Long-term Approach
2. Passion for Products and Technology
3. Teamwork
4. Results
5. Customer Feedback
6. Individual Excellence
Note: 1 & 4; 2 & 5; 3 & 6; should work to balance each other
1. Whatever makes you feel happy and fulfilled. (Many famous stars such as Elvis Presley were not successful under this definition and by their own admission)
2. How well you are doing compared with your own best-self (NOT others)
3. Steadily moving towards worthwhile predetermined goals
Many people have climbed to the top rung of the ladder of what they thought was "success" only to find out that it was leaning against the wrong wall.
Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to success.
Winners never quit. Quitters never win.
Some succeed because they were destined to, but most succeed because they were determined to.
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
Be self-reliant and your success is assured.
Coming together is a beginning ... keeping together is progress ... working together is success.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with you hands in your pockets.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
- Napoleon Hill
The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want, I will be happy."
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Make SUCCESS part of the journey. Not the ultimate destination.
Success is not something you get out of what you do.
- Wayne Dyer
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles
Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems ... they are not people without problems.
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
- Wayne Dyer
I believe there is one thing that all successful people have in common - and I'd sure like to know what it is!
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel Barker
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
- Jack Nicklaus on a golfer with a lot of talent who never "made" it
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove - BUT, the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
It is no use saying "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
SUCCESS is a product of LUCK, VISION and COMMITMENT.
LUCK is the consistent ability to capitalize on events over which you have no control.
VISION is talented people thinking the unthinkable and attempting the impossible.
COMMITMENT is the willingness to pay the price necessary to cause luck and vision to happen.
To me a winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were, and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.
- Larry Bird
A magnifying glass, sun and a dry pile of leaves and easily be used to make a fire. However, if you keep the "hot spot" moving around, a fire will NEVER get started. Have to focus on ONE SPOT to start a fire. Many people spread their energies and efforts over so many things that they never really accomplish ANYTHING really important.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
How much we enjoy what we have is more important than how much we have. Life is full of people who have more than they know what to do with, but cannot be content. It is the capacity to enjoy life that brings contentment.
It has been said that good people usually come in last. Well, it may appear that they come in last, but it's usually because they are running in a different race, a long term race that people who appear to come in first don't appreciate nor understand.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
80% of SUCCESS is showing up.
- Woody Allen
Many people define success in terms of the 3 "P"s: Possessions, Power, Position.
But does this definition of $ucce$$ really bring happiness? Can you be truly successful without satisfying your needs for happiness?
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
To live your life in your own way, to reach for the goals you have set for yourself, to be the you that you want to be - THAT is SUCCESS.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
- Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather the lack of will.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
What are you doing with the handful of years you possess between the great bookends of mystery?
Some people dream of success ... while others wake up and work hard at it.
Success is that old ABC: Ability, Breaks and Courage.
- Charles Luckman
Seven Basic Habits of Highly Effective People: (by Steven R. Covey)
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win/Win
5. Seek First to Understand (Then Seek to Be Understood)
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw (Self-Renewal)
SUCCESS is about going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Try not to become a success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Five KEYS to Successful Living:
1. The capacity to LOVE (to give of yourself)
2. The capacity to LEARN
3. The capacity to LABOR (provides real rewards & satisfaction)
4. The capacity to LAUGH (at yourself & with others)
5. The capacity to LEAVE (the past and move to the future)
These may seem like rather simple qualities - they do, after all, exist to some degree in all of us. But it's in applying them, in deepening and expanding them - that truly successful living occurs.
- Dr. Greiff, Harvard Business School
SUCCESS is the JOURNEY and not necessarily the DESTINATION.
If I am what I have
And if I lose what I have
Who then am I?
- Eric Fromm
The way to SUCCEED is to double your FAILURE rate.
- T.J.Watson, Sr.
Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it.
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only how did you take it.
- Edmund Vance Cooke
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.
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