"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."
- Bill Gates
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"Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to."
- Unknown
"You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you."
- Dr. Robert Anthony
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
- David Brinkley
"I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
- George Burns
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- Jean Cocteau
"The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the mood’s of people, and his tact in dealing with them."
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
"The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, and feel, and change, and grow, and love, and live."
- Leo F. Buscaglia (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
- John Dewey
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
- Thomas Paine
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe.”
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
- Latin Proverb
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose."
- Anne Bronte
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
- Orlando Aloysius Battista
