Leadership Quotes and Sayings

Leadership Quotes

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"  ~E.M. Kelly

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility.  He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.  ~Author Unknown

Leadership is action, not position.  ~Donald H. McGannon

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.  ~Gene Mauch

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone.  You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.  ~Elaine Agather

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.  ~Albert Schweitzer

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.  ~Robert Jarvik

You do not lead by hitting people over the head.  That's assault, not leadership.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  ~Thomas J. Watson

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is a dealer in hope.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.  ~Tom Peters 

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.  ~Dennis A. Peer

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.  ~John C. Maxwell

A leader is best

When people barely know that he exists.

~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.  ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

 

   

 

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.  ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.  ~Mark Brouwer

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.  ~Indira Gandhi

Leaders need to be optimists.  Their vision is beyond the present.  ~Rudy Giuliani

A leader leads by example not by Force.  ~Sun Tzu

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.  ~Golda Meir

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.  ~Theodore Roosevelt

He led his regiment from behind -

He found it less exciting.

But when away his regiment ran,

His place was at the fore, O.

~W.S. Gilbert

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.  ~Vince Lombardi

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school.  Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?  ~Henry Mintzberg

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.  ~Author Unknown

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes.  It is very easy to say yes.  ~Tony Blair

There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader.  ~Author Unknown

I praise loudly, I blame softly.  ~ Catherine the Great

Leadership:  the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.  Very often, that person is crazy.  ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his men.  ~Author Unknown

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.  ~Anne Bradstreet

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.  He inspires the power and energy to get it done.  ~Ralph Nader

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.  ~Charles Simic

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.  ~Lee Iacocca

There go my people.  I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.  ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

I am not a labor leader.  I don't want you to follow me or anyone else.  If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are.  I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.  ~Eugene V. Debs

To lead the people, walk behind them.  ~Lao-Tzu

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.  ~Eric Hoffer

Teamwork Quotes and Sayings

Teamwork Quotes

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. ~Author Unknown

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~Margaret Carty

Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites. ~Jin Kwon

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford

None of us is as smart as all of us. ~Ken Blanchard

A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it. ~Father Strickland, 1863 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! ~Author Unknown

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~Andrew Carnegie

Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: "We believe in each other." ~Author Unknown

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~Author Unknown

Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility." ~Amber Harding

We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Meade

A single leaf working alone provides no shade. ~Chuck Page

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford

Teamwork is essential — it allows you to blame someone else. ~Author Unknown

The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ~Bill Bradley

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ~Mia Hamm

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. ~Brian Tracy

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown

In union there is strength. ~Aesop

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. ~Casey Stengel

It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone. ~Author Unknown

Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown

Change Quotes and Sayings

Change Quotes

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming (Thanks, Michelle)

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ~Denis Waitley

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ~Washington Irving

When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith

What can we take on trust

in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,

pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

~Euripides, Hecuba

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius

Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. ~Laurens van der Post

Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ~William H. Seward

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. ~James Allen

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~William Blake

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;

Nought may endure but Mutability.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown

 

   

 

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~George Carlin

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin

Change may come to you in trinkets and I hope it adorns your life gracefully. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~Henri Bergson

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

We would rather be ruined than changed;

We would rather die in our dread

Than climb the cross of the moment

And let our illusions die.

~W.H. Auden

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! ~Andre Gide

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion. ~Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks With Arjuna

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay. ~Matthew Flickstein

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still. ~Laurence J. Peter

Nothing that is can pause or stay;

The moon will wax, the moon will wane,

The mist and cloud will turn to rain,

The rain to mist and cloud again,

Tomorrow be today.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. ~Ezra Pound

Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. ~Paul Valery

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

People don't change. Only their costumes do. ~Gene Moore

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened. ~Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~Harrison Ford

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. ~Michel Montaigne

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ~Kurt Lewin

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. ~Saigyo

Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau

Our only security is our ability to change. ~John Lilly

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ~Francis Bacon

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~Confucius, Analects

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~Stanislaw Lec

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw

Smile Quotes and Sayings

Smile Quotes and Sayings

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ~Author Unknown

Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home. ~Author Unknown

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ~Author Unknown

Always remember to be happy because you never know who’s falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown

Hey, I’ve got nothing to do today but smile. ~Paul Simon, "Only Living Boy in New York"

Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown

If you don’t have a smile, I’ll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot

...’tis He, arrayed

In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread

Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon....

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler

Smiling is infectious,

You can catch it like the flu.

Someone smiled at me today,

And I started smiling too.

~Author Unknown

A smile appeared upon her face as if she’d taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler

A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip

Smile — sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown

The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author unknown, modification of Victor Borge’s "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Every scowling face also contains the shapes of engaging smiles, just waiting to be released. ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

 

   

 

If you don’t start out the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown

Is a smile a question? Or is it the answer? ~Lee Smith

Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~Thích Nh?t H?nh

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. ~Robert Bloch

I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb

I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Terri Guillemets

Wear a smile — one size fits all. ~Author Unknown

People are not perfect (except when they smile). ~Author Unknown

No matter how grouchy you’re feeling,

You’ll find the smile more or less healing.

It grows in a wreath

All around the front teeth—

Thus preserving the face from congealing.

~Anthony Euwer

Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it’s just enough to smile sincerely. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

A smile is like tight underwear — it makes your cheeks go up. ~Author Unknown

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile. ~Author Unknown

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn’t it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade

A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman

Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. ~Author Unknown

You’re never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin

A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown

Smile, it lets your teeth breathe. ~Author Unknown

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown

The smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he sleeps — does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb

All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart

If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown

Smile with your lips, smile with your eyes, smile with your heart and your soul and your life. ~Terri Guillemets

Smile! It increases your face value. ~Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown

Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown

A smile is something you can’t give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown

It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown

Success Quotes and Sayings

Success Quotes

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

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

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher

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

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

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction. ~Bessie Stanley, 1905, commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try to discover

The road to success

And you'll seek but never find,

But blaze your own path

And the road to success

Will trail right behind.

~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard

 

   

 

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot

What will matter is not your success but your significance.... ~Michael Josephson, from "What Will Matter" (poem), 2003, whatwillmatter.com

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

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

To freely bloom — that is my definition of success. ~Gerry Spence

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Success is 99 percent failure. ~Soichiro Honda

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. ~Author Unknown

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Dale Carnegie

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 is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~Logan Smith

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. ~B.C. Forbes

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

The road to success is wherever people need another road. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. ~Arthur McAuliff (Thanks, Fernanda)

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~Author Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment. ~Author Unknown