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Success is never so interesting as struggle
- Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather 
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
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
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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