I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

The road to success is always under construction... there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Winning is kinda the cure to all things; to getting followers, fans, success. You've just gotta win.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

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