Success

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. -Orison Swett Marden Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. -Theodore T. Hunger Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -Frank Loyd Wright A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. -Elbert Hubbard There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance. -Owen Feltham Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. -Dennis Waitley The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. Vince Lombardi I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. -Herbert Bayard Swope Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. -Josh Billings The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Earl of Beaconsfield Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. -Evan Esar If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -Jospeph Addison Impatience never commanded success. -Edwin H. Chapin The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. -Henry W. Longfellow To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. -Shakespeare Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. -Albert Einstein Don’t shoot for something unattainable – completely outside of your nature or opportunity. - Michael Johnson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. - Aristotle Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. - Ernest Hemingway You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. - Michael Johnson The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. - Traditional Proverb If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. - Anna Quindlen It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you. - Rodney Dangerfield You can make goals for family, relationships, anything. - Michael Johnson To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart. - Christy Borgeld Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - G. K. Chesterton You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving. - Michael Johnson To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. - Gerry Spence Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road. - Yiddish Proverb Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein (Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success - Michael Johnson