Favorite Quotations
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Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ~ Orrison Swett Marden Success to me is simply being happy with yourself and doing more good than evil along the way. Although we all have various lofty professional and personal goals, in the end, what matters is being pleased with the man in the mirror. ~ Kwame Jackson, USA Today, 4/15/04 Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved. ~ Bill Russell, Russell Rules, 2002 Successful men and women in any art don't consider the odds. They just sneak up at night and cut their own holes in the fence. ~ Wells Root, Writing the Script, 1987 If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down. ~ Barry Bonds, USA Today, 2/24/04 Success don't come to you... you go to it. ~ Marva Collins Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends and co-workers, and even strangers you meet along the way. ~ Barbara Bush Success?... Don't you know it is all about being able to extend love to people? Really. Not in a big, capital-letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word. ~ Ralph Fiennes, O, 9/01
"There is always room at the top." ~ Daniel Webster, Collins Concise Dictionary Quotations