SUCCESS

  • Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
    ~ Booker T. Washington ~

  • Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them withyour hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, youchoose them as your guides, and following them you will reach yourdestiny.
    ~ Carl Schurz ~

  • I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

  • Success is being who you are, and feeling proud of yourself for every task and challenge that you face and conquer along the way.
    ~ Deanna Beisser ~

  • Your potential is limited only by what you can envision. Allow your mind to believe and you will achieve.
    ~ Anonymous ~

  • The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes.
    ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

  • Success is not measured by what we do but how we do it.

    ACCOMPLISHMENT/ DETERMINATION

  • There is no failure except in no longer trinŸ2p€Ÿ’`efeat exceptŸ.@m within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
    ~ Kin Hubbard ~

  • You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing, which you think you cannot do.
    ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

  • How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    ~ Lou Holtz ~

  • To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
    ~ Anatole France ~

  • Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much, because they live in a grey twilight tha knows not victory nor defeat.
    ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

  • What lies before us and what lies behind us are but tine matters compared to what lies within us.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

  • Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If youdo the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
    ~ Dale Carnegie ~

  • Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things thatyou have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individualswho had the courage to believe what their own hearts and mindstold them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of theirday.
    ~ Ching Ning Chu ~

  • Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surrmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
    ~ Samuel Johnson ~

  • DonÕt let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
    ~ Earl Nightingale ~

  • Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
    ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb ~

  • Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
    ~ Johann Von Schiller ~

  • Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
    ~ Helen Keller ~

  • DonÕt let fears stand in the way of your dreams.

  • Having the infinite future in mind, embracing a dream I will not surrender, I will hold the fadeless map of my mind to the light.
    ~ Anonymous ~

  • Ideas are wings that take flight only when they fly into the winds of inspiration.
    ~ JWK ~

  • It is one of the strangest ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain plesureable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.
    ~ Brutus Hamilton ~

  • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
    ~ Amelia Earhart ~

  • You learn you can do your best when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
    ~ Joe Namath ~

  • You are all champions in your own way. That doesn't mean you have to be #1 or be the best. Just do your best. If you aren't firest, then make those people ahead of you break records by pushing them with your personal best.

  • If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, andendeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet witha success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles inthe air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Nowput foundations under them.
    ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

  • Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
    ~ Calvin Coolidge, American President ~

  • We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see thingsin the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter'sevening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourishand protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring themto the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerelyhope that their dreams will come true.
    ~ Woodrow T. Wilson ~

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