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Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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 common hours.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
