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Things I Learned: Success

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The door of success is always marked Push.
There's always room at the top but there's always more room at the bottom.
One never knows what they cannot do until they try to undo it.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Hope is a good thing - Maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.
Most people have a desire to look at the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
It's always easier to have a courageous conviction after you know what the boss thinks.
The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.
Where there's a will there's a way.
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Every great achievement was once considered impossible.
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
It is not by whining that one carries out the job of a leader.
Good luck will often follow the person who doesn't include it in their plan.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Shoot for the moon because even if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.
The way to have a better tomorrow is to start working on it today.
It is not of importance where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
You may be on the right track, but you will get run over if all you do is just sit there.
Perseverance is a great element of success, If you only knock long enough
and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Court diversity of thought and opinion. Great solutions come from many different sources.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
You can't occupy a place in the sun without being exposed to blisters.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
What ever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your
line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Courage makes everything look different.
To get anywhere, you must strike out for somewhere, or you'll get nowhere.
True genius is the capacity to evade hard work.
You can observe a lot by watching.
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.
Don't hesitate to go out on a limb sometimes - after all, that's where the fruit is.
If you fail, it's because you took a chance; if you succeed, it's because you grasped an opportunity.
No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings.
For every problem there is an opportunity.
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Goals determine what you're going to be.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
It's a good idea to exchange ideas, and sometimes a better one to change them.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
If at first you don't success, destroy all evidence that you tried.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
There are two kinds of failure: Those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
Success is always achieved in private - failure in public.
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become your goals.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
He who knows when to stop runs into no danger.
Challenge yourself all the days of your life
Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Interesting people are people who are interested.
The possession of knowledge is the key to many doors.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday-was it worth it?
There are 2 kinds of failure: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
To win the race is to rise each time we fall.
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
The reward for a good deed is to have done it.
The secret to concentration is the acceptance of endless distractions.
When one door closes, another opens.
Ambition is the only disease that laziness can cure.
Completion often signals a new beginning.
The wrong choice usually seems the more reasonable.
Silence makes no mistakes.
Completion often signals a new beginning.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
There are ever-recurring miracles in everyday events.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
Good examples have twice the value of good advice.
Where all people think alike, no person thinks very much.
It's not what you've done that counts, it's what you could be doing.
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