success

"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

"Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own."

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them."

"Learn from your history, but don’t live in it."

"The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits."

"Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase."

"Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own."

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."

"Patience is a virtue not a vice."

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified."

"Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too."

"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."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

"Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well."

"When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust."