Monday, January 17, 2011

Success


Success comes in many forms and means many things to different people. To me, success is finding a way to do what you love while making a decent living and keeping the people close to you who are a positive light in your life no matter how far away they live. (That may be a run on, shhhh)

What is your definition of success? Here are some of my favorite quotes about success:

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

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." - George Burns

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -David Brinkley

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." - Erma Bombeck

"Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." - Sam Ewing

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten." - Jon Bon Jovi

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George S. Patton

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." - Al Bernstein

"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." - Booker T. Washington

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure." - B. C. Forbes

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