Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens.
If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed. - Nikita Koloff
Don't be discouraged by failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. - John Keats
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself. - Carolyn Warner
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. - Henry David Thoreau
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin
I can give you a six word formula for success: 'Think things through - then follow through.' - Eddie Rickenbacker
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - Anne Sullivan
To know how to wait is the great secret of success. - Joseph de Maistre
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang
A wise man will MAKE more opportunities than he FINDS. - Francis Bacon
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe
The greatest success, is successful self acceptance. - Ben Sweet
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. - Norman Vincent Peale
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. - Charles Carlson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. - Abraham Lincoln
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Sivanda, Swami
Enjoy the chase, work hard, take your chances, and the success will follow! - Mr. Nimphius
Put forth your best effort in everything you do, And you will end up being very successful in all you do. - Karen S.Magee
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. - Elaine Maxwell
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By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful. - Mel Ziegler
Failure is the tuition you pay for success. - Walter Brunell
To succeed...You need something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. - Gore Vidal
Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson
Most people search high and wide for the keys to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within. - George Washington Carver
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. - Dan Zadra
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? - Jean Cocteau
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. - Bob Brown
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, then progress stops. - Thomas Watson
The best players enjoy the game. The best musicians have a love for music. The highest achievers enjoy the achievement. Do you detect a pattern here? Whatever you must do to achieve success, find a way to enjoy it.You can either do what you love, or love what you do. It doesn't matter which. What matters is the "do" part. Taking the action is what brings success. Yes, you can struggle against your own desires, be miserable, and eventually accomplish your goal. But why? You'll be far more effective and consistently successful when you enjoy doing the things that bring you success. Healthy, physically fit people enjoy fruits, vegetables, and regular exercise just as much as overweight, out of shape people enjoy eating pizza in front of the TV. The difference is not in the food or the activity - the difference is attitude.You're in complete control of what you enjoy, and what you dislike. The things you like, are the things you've conditioned yourself to like. And you have the power to change them. - Ralph Marston
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford
Success breeds success. - Mia Hamm
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectation that they are going to succeed. Winners say, I want to do this, and I can do this Not, I would like to do this, but I don't think I can. - Denis Waitley
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work. - William Feather
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Reggie Leach
Success is the greatest revenge. - Unknown
There are no speed limits on the road to success. - Unknown
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight David Eisenhower
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
I'd rather attempt something giant and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed. - Unknown
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas
So, before you are tempted to give up or get discouraged, remember all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones that lead to great opportunities in the future. - Jim Rohn
It is not your standard of living, but the standard in which you live by, that defines your success. - Darryl E. Ramey
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Robert Louis Stevenson
A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job. - Unknown
The train to SUCCESS usually runs on the track of DETERMINATION. - Poh Yu Khing
SUCCESS is about deciding to give of your BEST no matter what the circumstances. - Poh Yu Khing
Success is about the EFFORT not the OUTCOME. - Poh Yu Khing
On the path to success always lies big O's. Some read them as Obstacles, others read them as Opportunities! - Poh Yu Khing
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at it to make your dreams come true - Poh Yu Khing
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. - David Joseph Schwartz
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. - Bernard M. Baruch
Success is not measured by what one brings, but rather by what one leaves. - Unknown
The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the obstacles that an individual had to overcome to achieve their goals. - Bill Phillips
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. - Norman Vincent Peale
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. - Vince Lombardi
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. - David Bly
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and Two, do it. - Mario Cuomo
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. - George M. Adams
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. - A.E. Hotchner
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can. - Michael Korda
What is success? 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. That is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view – as well as your own. - Henry Ford
If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear; For, if you will persevere, You will conquer; never fear; Try, try again. - McGuffey's Second Reader
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. - Dan Quayle
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. - Sarah Brown
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. - Richard Nixon (1913-1994) US president (37th), author
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. - Walter Cronkite (1916 -) US broadcast journalist
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. - Orison Swett Marden
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - George Allen (1922-1990) US football coach
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. - Mario Andretti (1940-) US auto racer
Success is just a matter of attitude. - Darcy E. Gibbons
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather
The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. - Unknown
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. - Sophocles
For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. - George Allen
The champion makes his own luck. - Red Blaik
If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
Faith in oneself .. is the best and safest course. - Michelangelo
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't. - Bruce Jenner
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity. -Dr. O. A. Battista
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin
Success is counted sweetest, By those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. - Roger Babson
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. - George R. Kirkpatrick
A child who is to be successful is not reared exclusively on a bed of down. - Akan Proverb
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. - H. Ross Perot (1930-) US Industrialist, philanthropist "The Alexander Complex."
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts. - Unknown
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain
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
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. - Jerry Gillies
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin
A successful person is one who went ahead and did the thing the rest of us never quite got around to. - Anonymous
There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for who you work, and persistence. - General Colin Powell
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom - Gen. George Patton
I have learned that 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
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. - David Brinkley
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I don't. -George Burns
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 Lombardi
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing. - Vince Lombardi
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Anthony Robbins
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain
You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - George S. Patton
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. - Henry Truman
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. - Edward B. Butler
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Steve Droke
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