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Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.
And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.
Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.