"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." –Dale Carnegie
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." –– Bruce Barton
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success." – Thomas J. Watson
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. Anna Pavlova
Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage. Arie de Gues
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. Barack Obama
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. - Carol Buchner
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R. Augustine
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. - Francis Bacon
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski