Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on read more

Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
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Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, read more

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of read more

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success read more

Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.