The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in the common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in an individual's determination.
Success is more attitude than aptitude.
Success is never final.
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Those with a job survived the Great Depression. Those with a craft succeeded.
Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Some people focus on what they're going through; champions focus on what they are going to.
You may be capable of great things,
The height of great men reached and kept was not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
One may conquer the highest mountain one step at a time.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
- George Halas
There is no success without hardship.
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.
Excellence is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, determined effort, and skilled execution.
Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain an grabs one.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
It is the last step in a race that counts. It is the last stroke on the nail that counts. Many a prize has been lost just when it was ready to be plucked.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.
Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft:
Three definitions of SUCCESS:
- Vince Lombardi
- Tommy Lasorda
- Bill Parcells, Coach, Jets
- Chinese Proverb
- Lawrence Shames
- Vidal Sassoon
- Joseph Joubert
- H.T. Leslie
But life consists of small things.
- Deng Ming-Dao
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Mark Twain
- Sophocles
- Jeremy Collier
- William Feather
- Charles E. Popplestone
- H. Jackson Brown
- Francis Bacon
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
- Don Shula
1. Long-term Approach
2. Passion for Products and Technology
3. Teamwork
4. Results
5. Customer Feedback
6. Individual Excellence
Note: 1 & 4; 2 & 5; 3 & 6; should work to balance each other
1. Whatever makes you feel happy and fulfilled. (Many famous stars such as Elvis Presley were not successful under this definition and by their own admission)
2. How well you are doing compared with your own best-self (NOT others)
3. Steadily moving towards worthwhile predetermined goals
Many people have climbed to the top rung of the ladder of what they thought was "success" only to find out that it was leaning against the wrong wall.
Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to success.
Winners never quit. Quitters never win.
Some succeed because they were destined to, but most succeed because they were determined to.
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
Be self-reliant and your success is assured.
Coming together is a beginning ... keeping together is progress ... working together is success.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with you hands in your pockets.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
- Napoleon Hill
The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want, I will be happy."
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Make SUCCESS part of the journey. Not the ultimate destination.
Success is not something you get out of what you do.
- Wayne Dyer
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles
Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems ... they are not people without problems.
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
- Wayne Dyer
I believe there is one thing that all successful people have in common - and I'd sure like to know what it is!
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel Barker
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
- Jack Nicklaus on a golfer with a lot of talent who never "made" it
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove - BUT, the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
It is no use saying "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
SUCCESS is a product of LUCK, VISION and COMMITMENT.
LUCK is the consistent ability to capitalize on events over which you have no control.
VISION is talented people thinking the unthinkable and attempting the impossible.
COMMITMENT is the willingness to pay the price necessary to cause luck and vision to happen.
To me a winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were, and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.
- Larry Bird
A magnifying glass, sun and a dry pile of leaves and easily be used to make a fire. However, if you keep the "hot spot" moving around, a fire will NEVER get started. Have to focus on ONE SPOT to start a fire. Many people spread their energies and efforts over so many things that they never really accomplish ANYTHING really important.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
How much we enjoy what we have is more important than how much we have. Life is full of people who have more than they know what to do with, but cannot be content. It is the capacity to enjoy life that brings contentment.
It has been said that good people usually come in last. Well, it may appear that they come in last, but it's usually because they are running in a different race, a long term race that people who appear to come in first don't appreciate nor understand.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
80% of SUCCESS is showing up.
- Woody Allen
Many people define success in terms of the 3 "P"s: Possessions, Power, Position.
But does this definition of $ucce$$ really bring happiness? Can you be truly successful without satisfying your needs for happiness?
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
To live your life in your own way, to reach for the goals you have set for yourself, to be the you that you want to be - THAT is SUCCESS.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
- Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather the lack of will.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
What are you doing with the handful of years you possess between the great bookends of mystery?
Some people dream of success ... while others wake up and work hard at it.
Success is that old ABC: Ability, Breaks and Courage.
- Charles Luckman
Seven Basic Habits of Highly Effective People: (by Steven R. Covey)
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win/Win
5. Seek First to Understand (Then Seek to Be Understood)
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw (Self-Renewal)
SUCCESS is about going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Try not to become a success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Five KEYS to Successful Living:
1. The capacity to LOVE (to give of yourself)
2. The capacity to LEARN
3. The capacity to LABOR (provides real rewards & satisfaction)
4. The capacity to LAUGH (at yourself & with others)
5. The capacity to LEAVE (the past and move to the future)
These may seem like rather simple qualities - they do, after all, exist to some degree in all of us. But it's in applying them, in deepening and expanding them - that truly successful living occurs.
- Dr. Greiff, Harvard Business School
SUCCESS is the JOURNEY and not necessarily the DESTINATION.
If I am what I have
And if I lose what I have
Who then am I?
- Eric Fromm
The way to SUCCEED is to double your FAILURE rate.
- T.J.Watson, Sr.
Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it.
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only how did you take it.
- Edmund Vance Cooke
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.
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