Success and Unsuccess

"No one keeps his enthusiasm automaticalty. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision."

"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."

"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential."

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

"Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder "What happened?" Which type of person are you?"

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do."

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."

"In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving."

"All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"Life is merely a series of opportunities for turning failures into success. To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

"Look forward, not backward. Be a leader, not a follower. Focus on your successes and learn from your failures. Stay away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Trust your hopes, not your fears. Go the extra mile at your job."

"What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal."

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind."

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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."

"Don't be discouraged by failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

"A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."

"Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is."

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

"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 little 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 the

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."

"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself."

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."


	My English Homepage \| home back to Quotations Winnie the Pooh \| Wisdom about life \| Worries \| War and Peace \| Courage \| Experience in life \| Love \| Friends and friendship \| Dance \| Micro and Macro \| The Truth \| Life and Death \| Joy and Sorrow \| Time \| Success and Unsuccess \| Belief and Doubt \| Happiness Success and Unsuccess "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." -- Arnold H. Glasow -- "No one keeps his enthusiasm automaticalty. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision." -- Papyrus -- "Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price." -- Vince Lombardi -- "Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential." -- John Amatt -- Organizer & Participant in Canada's first successful expedition to the summit of Mt Everest "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." -- Philippians 3:13-14 -- "A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." -- John C. Maxwell -- "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -- Naguib Mahfouz -- "There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -- John F. Kennedy -- "Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown." -- George Shinn -- "Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder "What happened?" Which type of person are you?" -- Author Unknown -- "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington -- "Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do." -- Brian Tracy -- "Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." -- J. Philip Everson -- "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." -- Theodore Rubin -- "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." -- Gustave Flaubert -- "You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle." -- George Lucas -- "In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving." -- William Arthur Ward -- "All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others." -- John Maxwell -- "The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources." -- Vauvenargues -- "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain -- "Life is merely a series of opportunities for turning failures into success. To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment." -- James Lane Allen -- "Look forward, not backward. Be a leader, not a follower. Focus on your successes and learn from your failures. Stay away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Trust your hopes, not your fears. Go the extra mile at your job." -- Alexander Lockhart -- "What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal." -- Anna Pavlova-- "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby -- "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." -- Elinor Smith -- "We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett -- "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -- Helen Keller -- "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song." --Maya Angelou-- "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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." -- George Bernard Shaw -- "Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." -- Anthony Robbins -- "Don't be discouraged by failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." -- John Keats -- "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." -- Larry Bird -- "A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks." -- Michael Levine -- "Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is." -- Barbara Johnson -- "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." -- Thomas Jefferson -- "Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much." -- Joan Collins -- "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan -- "You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." -- Rwandan Proverb -- "The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you." -- Tom Bradley -- "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." -- Albert Schweitzer -- "A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." -- Oscar Wilde-- "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah Winfrey -- "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 little 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 the meaning of success." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson-- "Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." -- J.C. Penney -- "You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change." -- Les Brown -- "I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself." -- Carolyn Warner -- "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." -- Calvin Coolidge --