"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie 

"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 

"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 

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight." 
-Mark Caine 

?There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." 
- Christopher Morley 

?There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." 
- Christopher Morley 

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
Orison Swett Marden 

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't. 

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier 

"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."Marva Collins 

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi 

"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland 

If you care at all,you'll get some results.If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. 

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons 

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti - race car driver 

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." Charles Kendall Adams 

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." 
Benjamin Disraeli 

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't. 

"I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." John H. Johnson 

Unless you change how you are,you will always have what you've got. 

"My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward." David Thomas 

"A stumble may prevent a fall." English Proverb 

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. 

"God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." Swedish Proverb 

"Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life." 
Laing Burns, Jr. 

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword 

"Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road." Laing Burns, Jr. 

"There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit." Laing Burns, Jr. 

"Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue ? these are the means of success, not caste or family." Mahabharata 

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are. 

"Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are. . . . It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It's like the perfume of the flower ? unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. And it can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth." George Matthew Adams 

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom . 

"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen." Phillip Adams 

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time.That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to to reap without apology if the amounts are big. 

"Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations." Charles Francis Adams II 

"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." Aeschylus