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 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.  Luctor et Emergo - I struggle and I come through. Nothing recedes like success. Perseverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving. - Pindar The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. What is success? 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; That is to have succeeded. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary. Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root. Success is that old ABC- ability, breaks and courage. How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? You always pass failure on the way to success. Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. Everything bows to success, even grammar. Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. - Voltaire The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Survival is triumph enough. It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes. There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is - try to please everybody. Success has made failures of many men. A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. - Seneca Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. If people knew what they had to do to be successful, most people wouldn't. The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Find a need and fill it. The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work. The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do. Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out. What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team. Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up." The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Success is that old ABC-Ability, Breaks and Courage. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is-try to please everybody. We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success. The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching. Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgement. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Find a need and fill it. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently. Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. Self-trust is the first secret of success. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough. The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured. The ability to form friendships, to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling, buying, negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide, instead of stumble, through life. Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program. Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking. No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others. The way to rise is to obey and please. Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. The world belongs to the energetic. I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them. There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up! People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead. The real difference between men is energy. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited, they make a success of their lives. It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life. Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. Success is due less to ability than to zeal. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Do it big or stay in bed. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done. If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You. Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does. If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up. Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them. Men at some time are masters of their fates. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble. What isn't tried won't work. He that is overcautious will accomplish little. All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall. He that would have fruit must climb the tree. To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born. Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. No one reaches a high position without daring. Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat. It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks. You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go. Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You can't catch trout with dry breeches. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs. Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Have the courage of your desire. To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage. It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove. No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage. Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb. Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something. It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping. What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win. Success is dependent on effort. Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil. It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot. In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. Until they are of the age to use the brain. Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage? Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you. The lesser evil is also evil. The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal. I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts. The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind? The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead? The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends. Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. |