Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
-Al Bernstein

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
-Author Unknown

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
-Russel H. Conwell

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
-Orison Swett Marden

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time.
-Joe Girard

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
-Harvey S. Firestone

T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
-Emily Dickinson

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
-Robert Collier

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
-M. H. Alderson

No rules for success will work if you don't.
-Unknown Author

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
-Robert Collier

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
-E.M. Gray

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
-T. S. Eliot

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

-Malcolm Forbes

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

-Albert Einstein

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul
even to your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success

- Swami Sivananda

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.
This is to have succeeded

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

-Vincent Van Gogh

"Seldom does an individual exceed
his own expectations."
-Unknown

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

-Russel H. Conwell

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em..."

-Kevin Welch

Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

-The Buddha

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to
enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

-Woodrow Wilson

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take
don't go in.

-Wayne Gretzky

"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, Jr.

"Try not to become a man of success.
Rather become a man of value."

-Albert Einstein

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

-Kahlil Gibran

"Don't 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

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

-Charles Reade

Use what talent you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best.

-Henry Van Dyke

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

-Carl Schurz

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

-Carl Jung