SUCCESS QUOTATIONS

1. "The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do."
   -- Leontyne Price
2. "I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them."
   -- Lord (Lew) Grade
3. "Chance favors the prepared mind."
   -- Louis Pasteur
4. "The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
   -- Mack R. Douglas
5. "Failure is success if we learn from it."
   -- Malcolm S. Forbes
6. "To succeed in business, be daring, be original, be first."
   -- Marchant
7. "I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
   -- Margaret Mead
8. "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
   -- Margaret Thatcher
9. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."
   -- Mark Caine
10. "Is it any coincidence then that the most incredibly successful people have the most confident and positive attitudes? Many people think that positive attitude is a by-product of having achieved wealth and success. In my experience I have found that this attitude was more often the reason for and not the result of success."
    -- Mark A. Crouch
11. "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
    -- Martina Navratilova
12. "There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."
    -- Max Beerbohm
13. "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways."
    -- Maxine Hong Kingston
14. "So celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed."
    -- Mia Hamm
15. "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...And I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely...Why I succeed."
    -- Michael Jordan
16. "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."
    -- Michael Korda
17. "Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy."
    -- Napoleon Hill
18. "The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven."
    -- Og Mandino
19. "The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy -- and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end."
    -- Pam Brown
20. "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
    -- Paul Sweeney
21. "I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride."
    -- Paul Wiener
22. "It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."
    -- Peter Marshall
23. "Get up one time more than you're knocked down."
    -- Peter's Principle of Success
24. "The definition of success -- To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and 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 healthy 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."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed."
    -- Ray Goforth
26. "Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people."
    -- Rear Admiral Marsha Evans
27. "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination ... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building-steadily building."
    -- Robert Collier
28. "Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
    -- Rob Gilbert
29. "Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit."
    -- Robert Schuller
30. "Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do."
    -- Roger Babson