There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
If u have been of service, if u have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if u are inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if u are at peace with urself, it has been a successful day.
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? u do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
There are no gains without pains.
Yesterday u dare to struggle. Today u dare to win.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
Success
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.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Ur will shall shape the future. Whether u fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but ur own. U are the force; U can clear any obstacle before u or U can be lost in the maze. Ur choice; Ur responsibility; win or lose, only U hold the key to ur destiny.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
it's the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
U owe ur success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
U will Learn, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
To fly, we have to have resistance.To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Success in Picasso's word's:-
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Success is somebody else's failure.
Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
