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May you find great value in these quotes by Booker T. Washington.
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Related topics: Motivational
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
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