Encouraging Words

 “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
― Michael Jordan

“Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.”
― David Burns

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self..to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...This is to have succeeded.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work;
second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein

 “There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.”
― Deepak Chopra

 “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
― Reba McEntire

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
― Thomas Jefferson

 “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Decide what you want to be....
Pay the Price ...
And be what you want to be.”
― John A Widtsoe, In a Sunlit Land

 “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
― Anna Quindlen

 “People rarely succeed unless they have
fun in what they are doing.”
― Dale Carnegie

 “Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.”
― Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

 “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”
― John R. Wooden

 “Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

 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

 “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”
― Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir

 “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
― Flannery O'Connor

 “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
― Denis Waitley

 “Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
― LeBron James, Shooting Stars

 “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

 “There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”
― Christopher Morley

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal”
― Thomas S. Monson

“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

“Success is a journey, not a destination; a marathon  and not a sprint.” -RL

“Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.”
― Zig Ziglar

 “The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.”
― Mia Hamm

 “Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
― Henry Ford

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
― Henry Ford

 “Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
― A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
― Albert Camus

 “To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.”
― Voltaire



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