ACHIEVEMENT/SUCCESS
1. A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
2. A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job. ~Unknown
3. Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ~Conrad Hilton
4. Act as though it is impossible to fail. ~Anonymous
5. As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall. ~Uknown
6. Choice, not circumstances, determines your success. ~Unknown
7. Dance like no one is watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.
And speak from the heart to be heard. ~William Purkey, paraphrasing “Come from the Heart”
8. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ~Josephus Daniels
9. Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it. ~William Feather
10. Designing a Successful Future
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative ~and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, and meetings and material assistance which one could never have dreamed would come his or her way. Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. ~Goethe
11. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ~Saint Augustine
12. Don’t aim at success —the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. ~Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
13. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ~Erma Bombeck
14. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Appius Claudius
15. Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ~Henry Ward Beecher
16. Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. ~Unknown
17. 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. ~Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
18. Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~Charles Francis Adams II
19. Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. ~Aeschylus
20. Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else. ~Unknown
21. God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. ~Swedish Proverb
22. Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go out into the world to make their dreams come true. ~ Ernest Holmes
23. Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us. ~George Allen
24. 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 your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
25. I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph. ~John H. Johnson
26. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. ~Bill Cosby
27. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the tiny pushes of each honest worker. ~Helen Keller
28. I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful. ~Johann Sebastian Bach
29. If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised. ~Unknown
31. If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
32. If it is to be, it is up to me. ~Unknown
33. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. ~Unknown
34. Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success. ~Unknown
35. It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. ~Marcus Aurelius Antonimus
36. It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit. ~John Wooden
37. Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. ~Unknown
38. Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. ~Bruce Barton
39. My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward. ~David Thomas
40. My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women. ~Woody Allen
41. No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. ~Althea Gibson
42. No one can change another person’s beliefs. But you can be accepting of his beliefs and then slowly build an influence for the other person to change himself. ~Unknown
43. No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ~Charles Kendall Adams
44. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ~Lew Wallace
45. Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. ~Henry David Thoreau
46. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy
47. Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
48. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
49. So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. ~Walt Disney
51. Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal. ~Gustave Flaubert
52. Success does not come to those who wait, and it does not wait for anyone to come to it. ~Unknown
53. Success doesn't come to you…you go to it. ~Marva Collins
54. Success in our calling is the result of a person’s love of and belief in the work he has undertaken. Earnest and conscientious labor often accomplishes more in the end than brilliant genius. ~Unknown
55. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers
56. Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ~Vince Gill
57. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Dale Carnegie
58. Success is never final. ~ Winston Churchill
59. Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. ~Unknown
60. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~Herman Cain
61. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. ~Jim Rohn
62. Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road. ~Laing Burns, Jr.
63. Take Time
Take time to think, it is the source of all power.
Take time to read, it is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to play, it is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to be quiet, it is the opportunity to seek God.
Take time to be aware, it is the opportunity to help others.
Take time to love and be loved, it is God’s greatest gift.
Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream, it is what the future is made of.
Take time to pray, it is the greatest power on earth.
Take time to give, it is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work, it is the price of success.
There is a time for everything. [Ecclesiastes 3:1-8]
64. The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. ~Albert Einstein
65. The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ~Unknown
66. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. ~Vincent T. Lombardi
67. The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. ~Robert Collier
68. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
69. 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. ~Henry Ford
70. The only certain measure of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you. ~Og Mandino
71. The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. ~Dale Carnegie
72. The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ~Unknown
73. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli
74. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. ~Jean Giraudoux
75. The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. ~Mark Caine
76. The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. ~H.W. Arnold
77. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. ~Christopher Morley
78. There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are each made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. ~George Adams
79. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~Anatole France
80. To Have Succeeded
To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics, and to endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one’s self;
To leave the world a little better, whether by a health child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...
This is to have succeeded. ~Bessie Stanley (adapted)
81. Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family. ~Mahabharata
82. We all have the extraordinary coded within us ... waiting to be released. ~Jean Houston
83. We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn. ~J.Todd Ferrier
84. What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become? ~Unknown
85. Whatever task 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. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best. ~Bernard Mannes baruch
86. When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. ~Orison Swett Marden
87. When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in. ~Aeschylus
88. When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here—namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition. ~Jack Mack Carter
89. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ~Peter Drucker
90. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success. ~Thomas J. Watson
91. Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success. ~Unknown
92. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ~Albert Camus