The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. – Ayn Rand
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. – Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. – Joann Thomas
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.” — Anatole France
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. – Stephen Covey
I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success – Ingrid Bergman
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. – Norman Vincent Peale
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action. – Arnold Toynbee
I ran enthusiasm even above professional skill. – Sir Edward Appleton
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality. – Mark Victor Hansen
Discover that the most powerful way to help those you love is to lead by example — and realize you’re leading by example all of the time. – Joe Caruso
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. – John Wooden, basketball coach
It’s easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom. – Zig Ziglar
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. – Leonard I. Sweet
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. – Linus Pauling
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. – Vince Lombardi
Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill
It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. – J. Willard Marriot
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven’t. – Thomas A. Edison
As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it’s leaning against the right wall. – Anonymous
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. – Jim Lovell
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. – Tom Peters
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. – Christina Baldwin
It all depends on how we look at things and not on how they are in themselves. – C.G. Jung
Confidence is the companion of success. – Anonymous
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. – Herbert Clark Hoover
He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six. – Chinese Proverb
Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity. – Willam George Plunkett
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost
There is only one way to succeed at anything and that is to give everything. – Vince Lombardi
Everybody’s a self-made man, but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. – Anonymous
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw
The most important question to ask on the job is not “what am I getting?” The most important question to ask is “what am I becoming? – Jim Rohn
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take. – Andy Andrews
Don’t discard your fantasies as merely wishful thinking. Honor them as messages from the deepest part of your being about what you can do and directions you can choose. – Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ben Sweetland
It’s in the struggle itself that you define yourself. – Pat Buchanan
You never find yourself until you face the truth. – Pearl Bailey
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. – Henry Miller
Whatever you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. – Bernard Baruch
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.” — Jim Rohn
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.” — Samuel Johnson
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.” — Felix Frankfurter
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. – Edith Wharton
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety. – Abraham Maslow
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. – John Dearden
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. – Robert Half
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin. – W. Clement Stone
Become the kind of person that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position. – Brian Tracy
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful. – Johann Sebastian Bach
Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence. – Rosalynn Carter
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
Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil. – Anonymous
The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours. – Frank Bettger
You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now. – Fred Smith
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do, when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do, when you want to do them. – Zig Ziglar
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. – Henry David Thoreau
Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment. – Zig Ziglar
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can. – John Wesley
Skill to do comes of doing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
Success: Willing to do what the average person is not willing to do. – Anonymous
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. – Steve Jobs
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are. – Bill Gates
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. – Barack Obama
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. – James Allen
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Sadi
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller
If you’re prosperous in soul, you’ll be prosperous in whole. – Mark Victor Hansen
The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination. – Mary Kay Ash
Success comes before work only in the dictionary. – Anonymous
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. – Orison Swett Marden
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. – Theodore Rubin
The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them. – Brian Tracy
Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do. – Paul Meyer
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’ve signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. – Jim Rohn
Develop a compulsion to closure. Once you begin, refuse to stop before completion. – Brian Tracy
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. – William F. Scolavino
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. – David Lloyd George
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Allen
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods. – Frank Brennan
Be as you wish to seem. – Socrates
Who begins too much accomplishes little. – German Proverb
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. – Dr. Joyce Brothers
You have the power to change. – Les Brown
All things are difficult before they are easy. – John Norley
Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance. – Zig Ziglar
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
All great achievements require time. – David J. Schwartz
It may be those who do most, dream most. – Stephen Leacock
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. – Wendell Phillips
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. – Bill Cosby
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. – Ivan Turgenev
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. – Pablo Picasso
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau
Do not fear mistakes, there are none. – Miles Davis
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
Put your future in good hands – your own. – Mark Victor Hansen
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. – Anthony D’Angelo
Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result. – Mark Victor Hansen
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw
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. – Jeremy Kitson
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. – John Wayne
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. – Flora Whittemore
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. – Woody Allen
Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence… all directed at specific goals. – Gary Ryan Blair
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. – William Arthur Ward
In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity. – Albert Einstein
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. – Cecil B. DeMille
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. – Cavett Robert
The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. – Albert Einstein
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilius Syrus
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. – Andrew Carnegie
Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind. – Walter Landor
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. – Charles Bexton
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. – Hugh Prather
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