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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
Related topics: Motivational
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Henry Ford
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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