Success

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people; 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

One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Charles Schwab

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

Kahlil Gibran

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Elbert Green Hubbard

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton’s Law

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao-Tzu

What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands.  Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

Colin Powell

We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Louis Armstrong, 1956, on jazz

To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Wilson Mizner

The only wealth is life.

Henry David Thoreau

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.

Helen Keller

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Corita Kent

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Karl A. Menninger

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it is what we do with them that is important.

Ruth Ross

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Cicero