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Success.

The pursuit of goals, achievement, and leaving a legacy.

“Wrong must not win by technicalities.”

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

Abigail Van Buren

“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.”

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.”

“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”

“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”

Francis Beaumont

“A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.”

Lakota Sioux proverbs

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

Charles Dickens

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

William Shakespeare

“Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of value of the goal.”

John C. Maxwell

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

“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.”

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

“Without failure there is no achievement.”

John C. Maxwell

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill

“A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.”

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.”

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”

“God is best known in not knowing him.”

Saint Augustine

“All great achievements require time.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”

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

“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”

Christopher Columbus

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.”

Winston Churchill

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

Charles Spurgeon

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The only way to achieve greatness is life is to have patience, consistency, and discipline.”

“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.”

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”