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Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
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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
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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."
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Success Leaves Clues.
- Jim Rohn
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
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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