Success means doing the best we can with what we have.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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