success

2004-07-17 at 2:14 a.m.

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

George Bernard Shaw

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."
H. Ross Perot

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little 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 the meaning of succes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is not finished if he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
Richard Nixon

"Start writing a new chapter for if you live by the book you'll never make history."
Ben Sobel

The only thing in life without effort is failure.

The road to success is always unde construction.

"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."

Mary O'Hare Dumas

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none."
Phillip Coldwell

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal."
Mike Ditka

Falling down doesn't make you a failure. staying down does.

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
Les Brown

There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.

"It is better to fail in orginality than to succeed in imitation."

Herman Melville

"I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 12,000 ideas tha don't work."
Thomas Edison

"I don't know the key to success but I know the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

"Whether I succeed or fail, shall be no mans doing but my own."
Elaine Maxwell

"Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Decide you want it more than you are afraid of it."
Bill Cosby

"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."
Jackie Mabley

"Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way."
Nikki Giovanni

"The encountering [of defeats] may be very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure."
Maya Angelou

"I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared with what I need to know."
Muhammad Ali

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but the opposition he or she has to overcome to reach his or her goals."
Dorothy Height

Quote of the Day: "You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." -Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis