"You may have a success in life, but then just think of it -
what kind of life was it? What good was it- you've never done the thing you
most wanted to do in all your life...go where your body and soul want to go.
When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you
off." (Joseph Cambell)
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of
greatness." (Seneca)
"I have studied in many schools, but the school in
which I studied the longest and learned the most was the school of
adversity." (Malcolm X)
"Success is not the result of spontaneous
combustion. You must set yourself on fire." (Reggie Leach)
"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 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)
"The most glorious moments in your life are not the
so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and
despair you feel rise in you a challenge of life, and then the promise of
future accomplishments." (Gustave Flaubert)
"There is only one success – to be able to live
your life in your own way." (Christopher Morley)
"It’s not whether you get knocked down.
It’s whether you get up again." (Vince Lombardi)
"There are defeats more triumphant than
victories" (Michel de Montaigne)
"Those who succeed are the ones who look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them."
(George Bernard Shaw)
"I have learned that success is to be measured not
so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which
he has overcome while trying to succeed." (Booker T. Washington)
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man
who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing
it." (Harry Fosdick)
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not
realize how close they were to success when they gave up." (Thomas
Edison)
"Success can only be measured in distance
traveled." (Mavis Gallant)
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
(Winston Churchill)
"Wise men make more opportunities than they
find." (Francis Bacon)
