~ The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. ~

~ The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ~

~ Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. ~

~ The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. ~

~ There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. ~

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

~ People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. ~

~ Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. ~

~ The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. ~

~ Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ~

~ You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. ~

~ I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ~

~ The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. ~

~ It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~

~ Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~