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'The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.'
• C.S. Lewis

"The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.'
• Melvin Powers

'Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that
we give our best at each level of experience.'
• Harold Ruopp

"All glory comes from daring to begin."
• William Shakespeare

'In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape
ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And
the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.'
• Eleanor Roosevelt

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
• Vince Lambardi

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
• General George Patton

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
• Helen Keller

"You can't build a reputation
on what you are going to do."
• Henry Ford

"Rule your mind
or it will rule you."
• Horace

"A successful man
is one who can
lay a firm foundation
with the bricks
that others throw at him."
• Sidney Greenberg

"A man is not finished
when he is defeated.
He is finished when he quits."
• Richard Nixon

"To achieve the impossible,
one must think the absurd;
to look where everyone else has looked,
but to see what no else has seen."
• unknown

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life."
• Sandra Carey

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
• Dale Carnegie

"It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit."
• Harry S Truman

"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

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
• John D. Rockefeller

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
• Helen Keller

"If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe."
• John Maxwell

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
• David Ambrose

"Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
• Charles Lindbergh, Aviation pioneer

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
-Stephen Covey

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

"Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"
NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots
you don't take."
-- Wayne Gretzky

"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view."
-Anon.

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
-Woody Allen

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
-Maya Angelou

"For many are called, but few are chosen."
-Matthew 22:14

"They never fail who die in a great cause."
-George Gordon Byron

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none."
-Philip Caldwell

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
-Bill Cosby

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
-Salvador Dali

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
-Josephus Daniels

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
-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 little 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 the meaning of success."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
-Ernest Hemingway

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
-Napoleon Hill

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"It's not failure, but low aim is crime."
-Lowell

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
-Charles Luckman

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."
-Harold MacMillan, 1963

"It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail."
-David Merrick

"I concede!"
-Richard Milhous Nixon

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-Beverly Sills

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works."
-William Strong

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."
-Lily Tomlin

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-Sloan Wilson

"Nothing recedes like success."
-Walter Winchell

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
-George E. Woodberry