Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the got to have it scale.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
—Charles William Wendte (1844–1931) American Minister, Theologian
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
—F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
—Indian Proverb
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile
Success isn’t necessarily permanent—but neither is failure.
—Unknown
Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
—John C. Maxwell (b.1947) American Author, Speaker, Pastor
I do not like to repeat successes. I like to go on to other things.
—Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
One of the principles we teach in our programs is “If you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon”. Poor people don’t even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they’re not successful.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
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 (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer
So celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
—Mia Hamm (b.1972) American Soccer Player
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
—Herodotus (c.485–425 BCE) Ancient Greek Historian
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
—Pope John XXIII (1881–1963) Italian Catholic Religious Leader, Pope
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
—John C. Maxwell (b.1947) American Author, Speaker, Pastor
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study, and practice.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
—John C. Maxwell (b.1947) American Author, Speaker, Pastor
Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy … what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
—Henry James (1843–1916) American-born British Novelist, Writer
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
He did it with all his heart, and prospered.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
—Unknown
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the Gods credit for.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
—Montesquieu (1689–1755) French Political Philosopher, Jurist
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
—Smiley Blanton
Nothing succeeds like success.
—Alexandre Dumas pere (1802–1870) French Novelist, Playwright
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage—and that’s the same thing.
—George Horace Lorimer (1867–1937) American Magazine Editor, Writer
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