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Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program. (Quote by - Susan RoAne)

You can't catch trout with dry breeches. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up! (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. (Quote by - Emma Thompson)

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. (Quote by - Vesta M. Kelly)

These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. (Quote by - Pietro Metastasio)

One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. (Quote by - Sir Edward Appleton)

You will never do anything in this world without courage. (Quote by - James Lane Allen)

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. (Quote by - Anthony Troloppe)

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. (Quote by - Marshal Ferdinand Foch)

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. (Quote by - Walter J. Johnston)

The way to rise is to obey and please. (Quote by - Ben Johnson)

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed. (Quote by - Stuart Walker)

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)

Success is simple. Do whats right, the right way, at the right time. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasow)

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Survival is triumph enough. (Quote by - Harry Crews)

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Quote by - Christian Bovee)

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man? (Quote by - The Panchatantra)

Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil. (Quote by - J. Paul Getty)

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. (Quote by - Henry Ford)

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Self-trust is the first secret of success. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. (Quote by - General Colin L. Powell)

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Success is the child of audacity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Find a need and fill it. (Quote by - Ruth Stafford Peale)

Tis not in mortals to command success, But well do more, Sempronius, Well deserve it. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. (Quote by - Irving Berlin)

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something. (Quote by - James A. Worsham)

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is try to please everybody. (Quote by - Herbert Bayard Swope)

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. (Quote by - Frank Curtis Williams)

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. (Quote by - Bible)

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead? (Quote by - Raymond L. Cox)

Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. (Quote by - Caroline L. Gascoigne)

Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. (Quote by - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais)

I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. (Quote by - Nancy, Lady Astor)

The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do. (Quote by - A. Jackson King)

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team. (Quote by - Benjamin F. Fairless)

Men at some time are masters of their fates. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life. (Quote by - Edward B. Butler)

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. (Quote by - Philip Caldwell)

Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law. (Quote by - John Chrusciel)

Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough. (Quote by - Macrina Wiederkehr)

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured. (Quote by - Paul C. Packe)

Success has always been a great liar. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

The real difference between men is energy. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Quote by - Joanna Field)

Success is that old ABC (Quote by - ability, breaks and courage. (Quote by - Charles Luckman)

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving. (Quote by - Pindar)

All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. (Quote by - William L. O'Neill)

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (Quote by - David Bly)

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. (Quote by - Jean Shinoda Bolen)

The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall. (Quote by - Thomas Adams)

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. (Quote by - M. W. Little)

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. (Quote by - Charles Buxton)

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. (Quote by - C. Malesherbez)

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage. (Quote by - Confucius)

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. (Quote by - Flip Wilson)

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (Quote by - Bible)

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)

The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed. (Quote by - Kazi Shams)

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it wont taste good. (Quote by - Joe Paterno)

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. (Quote by - Hamilton Holt)

Perseverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet em on your way down. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas pere)

The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

The man who has done his level best is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)

Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. (Quote by - Artur Rubinstein)

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage? (Quote by - Meg Greenfield)

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. (Quote by - John Stevenson)

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Success is when reality exceeds expectations. (Quote by - John D. Gerhart)

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. (Quote by - Sir William Osier)

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited, they make a success of their lives. (Quote by - Walter Chrysler)

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. (Quote by - Walter Pater)

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up." (Quote by - Tom T. Hall)

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (Quote by - James Bryant Conant)

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. (Quote by - Ilka Chase)

No one reaches a high position without daring. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. (Quote by - James Lane Allen)

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends. (Quote by - Sophie Tucker)

If people knew what they had to do to be successful, most people wouldn't. (Quote by - Lord Thomson of Fleet)

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently. (Quote by - William A. Ward)

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Ive had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck. (Quote by - Kareem Abdul-jabbar)

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Quote by - Reggie Leach)

Have the courage of your desire. (Quote by - George R. Gissing)

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no top. . (Quote by - Nancy Barcus)

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Nothing succeeds like success. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas pere)

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Those who have succeeded at anything and dont mention luck are kidding themselves. (Quote by - Larry King)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. (Quote by - Herodotus)

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root. (Quote by - Malay proverb)

Success has made failures of many men. (Quote by - Cindy Adams)

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. (Quote by - L. M. Montgomery)

You always pass failure on the way to success. (Quote by - Mickey Rooney)

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. (Quote by - Dodie Smith)

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat. (Quote by - Ralph Kiner)

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished ones business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)

What isn't tried won't work. (Quote by - Claude McDonald)

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. (Quote by - Sallust)

The ability to form friendships, to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling, buying, negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide, instead of stumble, through life. (Quote by - John J. McGuirk)

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work. (Quote by - Sarah Knowles Bolton)

To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born. (Quote by - A. P. Gouthey)

We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours. (Quote by - Richard Eugene Burton)

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. (Quote by - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does. (Quote by - James A. Worsham)

If you can't accept losing, you can't win. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. (Quote by - David Brinkley)

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs. (Quote by - Euripides)

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. (Quote by - Nicholas Murray Butler)

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. (Quote by - Henry Ford)

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. (Quote by - Shirley Temple)

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. (Quote by - Jennifer Capriati)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (Quote by - Charles M. Schwab)

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. (Quote by - Anthony J. Dangelo)

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords? (Quote by - William Cowper)

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. (Quote by - William J. H. Boetcker)

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. (Quote by - Thomas Eakins)

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. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. (Quote by - Seneca)

Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil. (Quote by - W. M. L. Jay)

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. (Quote by - Michel De Montaigne)

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. (Quote by - Martina Navratilova)

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go. (Quote by - Lillian Carter)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. (Quote by - Bible)

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind? (Quote by - Janet Reno)

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. (Quote by - George Cukor)

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. (Quote by - German proverb)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)

It takes vision and courage to create (Quote by - it takes faith and courage to prove. (Quote by - Owen D. Young)

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. (Quote by - Kenneth Boulding)

Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing. (Quote by - Mary Carolyn Davies)

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing. (Quote by - George Horace Lorimer)

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! (Quote by - George Matthew Adams)

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)

We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. (Quote by - John Hays Hammond)

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. (Quote by - Bob Brown)

What is 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; That is to have succeeded. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)

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. (Quote by - John Foster Dulles)

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up. (Quote by - Samuel Daniel)

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. (Quote by - L. G. Elliott)

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others. (Quote by - John Craig)

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping. (Quote by - Wes Izzard)

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Quote by - Herbert Kaufman)

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

Success is counted sweetest By those who neer succeed. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot. (Quote by - Diane Sawyer)

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win. (Quote by - Vicky Aragon)

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. (Quote by - Swami Sivananda)

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. (Quote by - David V. A. Ambrose)

Everything bows to success, even grammar. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasnt been asleep. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)

Success is dependent on effort. (Quote by - Sophocles)

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. (Quote by - Voltaire)

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! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success. (Quote by - William M. Punshion)

Until they are of the age to use the brain. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. (Quote by - Charles O. Finley)

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me. (Quote by - Catharine Marshall)

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility. (Quote by - Landrum P. Leavell)

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. (Quote by - James W. Pence)

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. (Quote by - Frederick B. Wilcox)

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. (Quote by - Thomas R. Dewar)

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat. (Quote by - Damon Runyon)

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you. (Quote by - Felicia Lamport)

No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage. (Quote by - Cardinal James Gibbons)

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

He that is overcautious will accomplish little. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. (Quote by - Jane Addams)

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women. (Quote by - Mary Field Belenky)

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. (Quote by - John B. Gough)

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead. (Quote by - James Caan)

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earths beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. (Quote by - William McFee)

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

Dont aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. (Quote by - David Frost)

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. (Quote by - Ralph C. Smedley)

They never fail who die In a great cause. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it. (Quote by - Julia Child)

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb. (Quote by - Cookie Lavagetto)

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. (Quote by - Thomas A. Buckner)

Nothing recedes like success. (Quote by - Walter Winchell)

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done. (Quote by - Arland Gilbert)

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. (Quote by - Edwin Way Teale)

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. (Quote by - Oswald Spengler)

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. (Quote by - Alonzo Newton Benn)

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgement. (Quote by - William Maxwell Aitken)

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking. (Quote by - Susan RoAne)

Success is due less to ability than to zeal. (Quote by - Charles Buxton)

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

ncoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, youve got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. (Quote by - Gerald Nachman)

If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful. (Quote by - Donald M. Kendall)

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal. (Quote by - Ida White Parker)

The world belongs to the energetic. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Quote by - Sir Archibald Mclndoe)

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it. (Quote by - Cardinal de Retz)

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. (Quote by - Donald Riggs)

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. (Quote by - Charles Baudouin)

Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. (Quote by - George R. Kirkpatrick)

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. (Quote by - Thomas N. Carruther)

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas pere)

He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

Action is the foundational key to all success. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)