Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.[i] You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.[ii]
Work made me do it.[iii]
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.[iv]
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.[v] The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.[vi] A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.[vii]
When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here—namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition.[viii] The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.[ix]
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.[x] Part of success is preparation on purpose.[xi] The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.[xii]
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy![xiii]
Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence.[xiv] 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.[xv]
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.[xvi]
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.[xvii] Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.[xviii]
There are some things you don't have to know how it works. The main thing is that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends which end of this you want to get in on.[xix] There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.[xx]
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.[xxi]
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.[xxii] Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.[xxiii]
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.[xxiv] You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.[xxv]
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.[xxvi]
Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.[xxvii] The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.[xxviii]
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.[xxix] I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.[xxx]
Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods.[xxxi]
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.[xxxii] The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.[xxxiii]
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.[xxxiv] The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.[xxxv]
To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.[xxxvi]
At the end of each day you should play back the tapes of your performance. The result should either applaud you or prod you.[xxxvii]
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.[xxxviii] Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.[xxxix]
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.[xl] Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.[xli]
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.[xlii] Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.[xliii]
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.[xliv] The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.[xlv]
Confidence is the companion of success.[xlvi] When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.[xlvii]
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.[xlviii] We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.[xlix]
Success has a simple formula: do your best and people may like it.[l]
Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.[li] 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.[lii]
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.[liii] Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man.[liv] Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.[lv]
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.[lvi]
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.[lvii]
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.[lviii] Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.[lix]
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.[lx] I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.[lxi]
Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else.[lxii] History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles.[lxiii]
Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.[lxiv] Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.[lxv]
Failure is success if we learn from it.[lxvi]
Good is not good where better is expected.[lxvii]
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[i] Herman Cain
[ii] Unknown Author
[iii] Genan Sijercic
[iv] Unknown Author
[v] Johann Sebastian Bach
[vi] Zig Ziglar
[vii] Unknown Author
[viii] Jack Mack Carter
[ix] Irving Berlin
[x] Arthur Ashe
[xi] Jim Rohn
[xii] Mark Caine
[xiii] Brian Tracy
[xiv] Walt Disney
[xv] Winston Churchill
[xvi] Albert Gray
[xvii] Zig Ziglar
[xviii] Zig Ziglar
[xix] Jim Rohn
[xx] Bourke Cockran
[xxi] Robert Collier
[xxii] Thomas Edison
[xxiii] Orison Sweet Marden
[xxiv] Conrad Hilton
[xxv] Mark Victor Hansen
[xxvi] Brian Tracy
[xxvii] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[xxviii] Ben Stein
[xxix] Jim Rohn
[xxx] John D. Rockefeller
[xxxi] Frank E. Brennan
[xxxii] Edmund Vance Cooke
[xxxiii] Sarah Knowles Bolton
[xxxiv] Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
[xxxv] E.M. Gray
[xxxvi] Paul Cummings
[xxxvii] Jim Rohn
[xxxviii] Marcus Aurelius Antonimus
[xxxix] Unknown Author
[xl] Vince Gill
[xli] Josephus Daniels
[xlii] Benjamin Disraeli
[xliii] Dale Carnegie
[xliv] Dale Carnegie
[xlv] H.W. Arnold
[xlvi] Unknown Author
[xlvii] Aeschylus
[xlviii] Benjamin Disraeli
[xlix] Eisenhower
[l] Sam Ewing
[li] Albert Einstein
[lii] Bob Dylan
[liii] Albert Camus
[liv] Frederick Edwin Smith, Lord Birkenhead
[lv] Aeschylus [lvi] Emily Dickinson
[lvii] Demosthenes
[lviii] Euripides
[lix] Zig Ziglar
[lx] Walter Gagehot
[lxi] John H. Johnson
[lxii] Unknown Author
[lxiii] William Danforth
[lxiv] Sherman Finesilver
[lxv] Dowden
[lxvi] Malcolm Forbes
