The most important thing about goals is… having one.
~ Geoffry F. Abert
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
~ Bo Bennet
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning
Your goal should be out of reach, but not out of sight.
~ Anita DeFrantz
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
~ Napolean Hill
Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
~ J.C. Penney
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
~ Cavett Robert
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Success is never final; failure is never fatal.
~ Winston Churchill
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
~ John Wooden
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t0 grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
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
Success comes from taking the hand you were dealt and using it to the very best of your ability.
~ Ty Boyd
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
~ Phillips Brooks
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
~ Joyce Brothers
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
~ Edward Butler
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
~ Eddie Cantor
Success is never final; failure is never fatal.
~ Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein
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
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
Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
~ William Faulkner
Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don’t worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
~ Sherman Finesilver
Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
~ Gustave Flaubert
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
~ Vince Gill
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage and the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
~ Thomas Jefferson
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is — and rise above it.
~ Michael Korda
To succeed is nothing, it is an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different, it is character.
~ Marie Leneru
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~ Bill Lyon
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
~ Og Mandino
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
~ David McCullough
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
~ Willie Nelson
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
~ Earl Nightingale
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
~ Florence Nightingale
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but won’t taste good.
~ Joe Paterno
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
~ German Proverb
Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.
~ Old Japanese 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
Success is the study of the Obvious.Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
~ Jim Rohn
As individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live. Our own success, to be real, must contribute to the success of others.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The barrier (to) success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.
~ Laurence Shames
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.
~ Swami Sivananda
Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, “There is a way for me and, by jingo, I’ll find it.
~ Clifford Sloan
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
~ Bessie A. Stanley
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
~ Booker T. Washington
If you want to double your success rate, double your failure rate.
~ Thomas Watson
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
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
~ Tennessee Williams
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
~ Jonathan Winters
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I am really no different from any of you. I may have more money than you do, but money doesn’t make the difference. Sure, I can buy the most luxurious handmade suit, but I put it on and it just looks cheap. I would rather have a cheeseburger from Dairy Queen than a hundred-dollar meal. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you want to learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.
~ Warren Buffett addressing students at the University of Nebraska, as quoted in Now, Discover Your Strengths
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.
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Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
~ Mary Kay Ash
A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~ John Burroughs
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie
A champion is one who gets up even when he can’t.
~ Jack Dempsey
The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.
~ Walt Disney
We will either find a way or make one.
~ Hannibal
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~ Herbert Kaufman
Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
~ Paul J. Meyer
Trying times are not the times to stop trying.
~ Ray Owen
I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
~ J.C. Penney
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
~ Norwegian Proverb
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ C. H. Spurgeon
Anyone can CARRY HIS BURDEN
however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone, can DO HIS WORK,
however hard, one day.
Anyone can live SWEETLY, PATIENTLY, LOVINGLY,
until the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really is.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
– Lee Trevino
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
~ Denis Waitley
We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff
Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success is the study of the Obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well do even better.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much.
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It’s not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it’s no longer the sideshow, it’s the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we’re dealing only with the freaks.
The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
You can’t talk yourself out of a problem you behave yourself into.
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