Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
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
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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."
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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 great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
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
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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
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