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The successful
person is the
individual
who forms the habit
of doing what
the failing
person doesn't like to do.
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victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals
and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become
endurable as
you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how
menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandino
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We can
think of the times--perhaps only yesterday--when we listened to a
friend
in need, or finished a task that was
nagging at us. Maybe we made
an
appointment to begin a project we've
been putting off. Success is taking
positive action, nothing more. Many
of us, in our youth, were taught that
success only came in certain shapes
and sizes. And we felt like failures. We need new definitions;
it's time to discard the old.
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If
I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice
from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become
a failure,
I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I
wanted
to succeed in all things, I would look around me
for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
Joseph Marshall
Wade
Success doesn't come to
you. You go to it.
Marva Collins
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Success
isn't measured by the position you reach in life;
it's measured
by the obstacles you overcome.
Booker T.
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Success is
what you do with the ability that you have, how you use
your
talent. It doesn't necessarily mean any one thing.
George
Allen
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Many of the most
successful people I have known have never grown up.
They have
retained bubbling-over childishness. They have relished wit,
they
have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity"
to depress them
into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the
twin brother of optimism,
and optimism is the stuff of which American
business success is fashioned.
Resist growing up!
B.C. Forbes |
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Success
is going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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Striving for
success without hard work is like
trying to harvest where you haven't
planted.
David Bly
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What is the
recipe
for
successful
achievement? To
my mind
there are
just four
essential
ingredients: Choose
a career
you love. . . . Give it the
best there
is in
you. . . . Seize
your
opportunities. . . .
and be
a
member
of the team.
Benjamin F.
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Among
the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so
not
because
fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the
reverse is true. They
succeed because they do not whine
over
their
fate but take whatever has been given
to them and
go on
to make the most
of their best.
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If hard work is the
key to success,
most people would rather pick the lock.
Claude McDonald
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No one
ever attains very eminent success by simply doing
what is required of
him or her; it is the amount and excellence
of what is over and above
the required, that determines
the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles
Kendall Adams
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The price
of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand,
and the
determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of
ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince
Lombardi
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Nothing good
comes in life or athletics unless a lot of
hard work
has preceded the
effort. Only temporary
success is achieved
by taking short cuts.
Roger Staubach |
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Any
definition of a successful life
must include serving others.
George
Bush
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Success
is a state of mind. If you want success,
start thinking of
yourself as a success.
Joyce
Brothers |
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I can't
imagine a person becoming a success
who doesn't give
this game of life
everything he or she has got.
Walter Cronkite
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Success is
relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of
things.
T.S. Eliot |
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully
to
the very best
advice,
and then going away
and doing the exact opposite.
G.K. Chesterton
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What I
wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that
I did best--which I believed then and believe now is the greatest
privilege there
is. When I did that success found me.
Debbi
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Far too often many
people do not prepare themselves for success. While
they wish success would favor them, they may put just enough effort into
life to get by, thinking that if by chance something big comes along,
they'll
grab it. But if you're not prepared for success, you may find it
difficult to
hold on to the opportunities that come your way. Success requires
understanding, fortitude, and foresight to bring the "blade to
the full grain in the ear."
As an exercise, ask yourself from time to time what you are doing to
prepare yourself for success. Have you established and
become fully
committed to your goals? Are you willing not only to cultivate
the soil
and plant the seed but also to nurture and care for the tender blade and
the young ear as it appears? Are you willing to go the extra mile,
and
give the energy and attention that the opportunity calls for? Are
you
willing to stand firm with your convictions, your principles? Are
you
prepared to stand alone, if necessary? Have you trained yourself
to
recognize opportunity when it knocks?
John Marks
Templeton
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I must
admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the
contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret
Mead
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Success
has nothing to do with what you gain
in life or
accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
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Why aren't people more
successful? Because most people do not select
and pursue a vision without
regard for other objectives. Most people shift
from one activity to
another without any focused or directed purpose,
naively assuming that things
will take care of themselves or will be
taken care of by others. George
Bernard Shaw said, "The people who
get on in this world are the people who
get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can't find them,
make them."
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Some succeed
because they are destined to; most
succeed because they are
determined to.
Anatole France
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When I
thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep
going.
My success is based on persistence, not luck.
Estee
Lauder
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versions of a similar passage: there's a passage on
success that's usually attributed to Emerson, but that very
probably is a misattribution. Unfortunately, over the
years the various versions have changed, and it's pretty hard
to tell where these ideas came from originally. We won't
attempt to answer the question of source definitively--we'll
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To
laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children; to earn the
appreciation of honest criticism and endure the betrayal
of false friends; to appreciate beauty and find the best
in others; to leave this world a bit better whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch, a redeemed social
condition; to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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He has
achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of
pure women,
the respect of intelligent men and
the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others and
given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.
--1904 Bessie Anderson Stanley
("Success"
was written as the winning entry in a contest run by Brown
Book Magazine in 1904. Bessie won a cash prize of $250 which
paid off the mortgage on the house, among other things. It was
included in Bartlett's Book of Quotations for decades, and if
you can find an old edition from the 30's or 40's, it should
be in there. They dropped it, I think in the 60's, but I don't
know why.
The family isn't sure how the poem got mangled and attributed
to Emerson, but it was further confused by Ann Landers and her
sister Abby. Ann Landers used to (mis)quote it all the time
and cite Emerson as the source. My great-uncle Art, a retired
federal judge who died last March, and she had a decade-long
correspondence as he argued for a public correction. She
finally conceded and in her book, The Ann Landers
Encyclopedia, prints the whole story.
~~Bethanne
Larson, a granddaughter of Bessie Stanley)
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That Man is a Success
Who has lived well,
laughed often and loved much;
Who has gained the respect of intelligent men
and the love of children;
Who has filled his niche
and accomplished his task;
Who leaves the world better than he found it,
whether by improved poppy, a perfect poem,
or a rescued soul;
Who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty
or failed to express it.
Who looked for the best in others
and gave the best he had.
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Some
people measure success internally. Others measure it by wealth,
appearance, and popularity. Some try to find an internal-external
balance.
We're used to establishing our personal scores by
comparison. You may
define yourself as only the sum of what you purchase or produce.
But there
is always someone wealthier, more attractive, or more popular. The
prize
is always just out of reach.
Try a balance or an alternative. Put more time into
things with no discernible
score. Nurture friendships with people outside your competitive
sphere. Walk
in the woods, read novels, listen to music, meditate, laugh loudly, play
with
children and animals, secretly pick up litter, give things away.
Alter your goals to include an investment in the internal
quality of each day
and in each interaction with a living thing. You'll win in the
long run, if you
still want to, because you'll be the prize.
Jennifer James
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A
successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie
in the
knowledge
that one has developed to the limit the capacities
with which
one was endowed;
that one has contributed something
constructive to
family and friends and to
a home community;
that one has brought
happiness wherever it was possible;
that one has earned one's way in the
world, has kept some friends,
and need not be ashamed to face oneself
honestly.
Eleanor
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I believe that a successful life is one that springs
from the deep
intuition of the heart--finding a passion, a calling that not only
fulfills our dreams, but leads us to be of service to family, friends,
and community. Once that calling is clear, true success lies in
living with kindness and respect as constant companions
in all one's undertakings.
Gloria Loring |
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Success
usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry
David Thoreau
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When you lower the
definition of success to such a level that any person
can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead,
you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.
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How can we
best define success? Does it simply mean that there was a task
before us that we accomplished? If that is the case, then we could
call walking
down the driveway and retrieving the mail a success. Minor
matters,
regardless of how trivial, could be defined as successes so long as they
were
completed. Yet, success means so much more. Success comes
when we face
a challenge and struggle against the odds to succeed.
Historically, success often followed a series of failures.
John
Marks Templeton
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Many
people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved
through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success
represents the
one percent of your work which results only from
the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.
Soichiro Honda |
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A lot of
successful people are risk-takers. Unless you are willing to do
that,
to have a go, to fail miserably and have another go, success won't
happen.
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Success
has a great deal more to do with being than gaining. Whatever
we gain can be taken away from us by those who give it to us or those
who take it away. But real success rests on what we become
that is not given to us by anyone but ourselves.
Joan Chittister
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Success is liking
yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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