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It is never too late
to be what you
might have been.

George Eliot
   

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause,
you will hear it.  My advice to you concerning applause is this:
Enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

     

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses.  Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.  If in the end one can say, "This person used to the limit the powers that God granted him or her; this person was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he or she might achieve what this person deemed to be his or her task," then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt
   

It's important to give yourself a gold star.  Recognizing your achievements--
big and small--is an important part of honoring who you are.  Gold stars have
the powerful effect of undermining and dethroning all the critical stuff
you've heard about yourself.

Leslie Levine

   
Be of good cheer.  Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.  You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.  Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Helen Keller
    

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss
and hardships.  Those that would reap and not labour, must faint
with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head
shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

William Penn

   

   

   

The greatest works are done by the ones.  The hundreds do not
often do much--the companies never; it is the units--the single
individuals, that are the power and the might.  Individual effort is,
after all, the grand thing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

  

There are two kinds of success.  One is
the very rare kind that comes to the
person who has the power to do what no
one else has the power to do.  That is genius.
But the average person who wins what we
call success is not a genius.  That person is
a man or woman who has merely the ordinary
qualities that they share with their fellows, but who has developed those ordinary qualities
to a more than ordinary degree.

Theodore Roosevelt

   

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life,
I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought
to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

Margot Asquith

    

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

   

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles
   

Four steps to achievement:
Plan purposefully.
Prepare prayerfully.
Proceed positively.
Pursue persistently.

William A. Ward
   

Show me a thoroughly satisfied person,
and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

  
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success.  She
said that "achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and
worked hard and done the best that is in you.  Success is being praised
by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying."
Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
  
Helen Hayes
   

I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody.  

Bill Cosby

   

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents
the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of
many masters of craftsmanship.  
Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has
been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

Willa A. Foster

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Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.  Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge
   

People who have attained things worth having in this world
have worked while others idled, have persevered when others
gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits
of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.  As a result,
they enjoy later in life the success so often
erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser
   

Life should be enjoyable; too often we think it's about achievement.
The truth is that making life enjoyable is an achievement in itself.

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Every great achievement is
the story of a flaming heart.

Harry Truman

We don't know who we are
until we see what we can do.

Martha Grimes
   

No matter what accomplishments you achieve,
somebody helps you.

Althea Gibson

     
    
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying.  The person
who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the
barriers to it, and secures its achievement.  To think we are able, is almost
to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

    
   

Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not
equivalent to measuring an individual’s worth by his or her external achievements.
We admire achievements—in ourselves and others—and it is natural and appropriate for us
to do so.  But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure
or grounds of our self-esteem.  The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those
internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.

Nathaniel Branden

    

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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and
endeavors to live the life one has imagined, one will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau
   

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent
or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above
a certain level, are outside our self-concept--our image of who we
are and what is appropriate to us.

Nathaniel Branden
Self-Esteem Every Day