Success
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford
"The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep."
- Wilson Mizner
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."
- Mark Twain
"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."
- Michel de Montaigne
" The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard
"I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect."
- Julius Irving (Dr. J)
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus
"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."
- Helen Keller
"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 that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can be on the right road [to success], but you're never going to get anywhere if you just sit there."
- Unknown
"Success is measured not in achievement for self, but in accomplishment for others."
- Jeffrey J. Wood
"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
- Margaret Thatcher
"Don't listen to those who say, 'It's not done that way.' Maybe it's not, but maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, 'You're taking too big a chance.' Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely have been rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says, 'They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections....' I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are your be a person worthy of your own respect."
- Neil Simon
"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."
- George Burns
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
- Gen. George Patton
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
- Lady Stella Reading
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter Drucker
"My work here is done. What's the point in waiting?"
Suicide note of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, aged 78
"The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
Robert Frost, 1970
"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; It's a depression when you lose yours".
Harry S. Truman
