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Sunday, 6 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
Character is more important than intelligence for success.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
Failure has no friends.
Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.
I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
It is more important to be of service than successful.
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.