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Success.

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

“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.”

George S. Patton

“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”

“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

Jean Paul Richter

“If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

William Shakespeare

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Winston Churchill

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”

Robert G. Ingersoll

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Winston Churchill

“Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that, they persevere.”

John C. Maxwell

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”

“Losing is a habit, so is winning.”

“If there is no wind, row.”

“Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do.”

William Knudsen

“Wind in the face makes a man wise.”

French proverbs

“Under white ashes there is glowing coal.”

Italian proverbs

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

David Starr Jordan

“Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“You will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”

Daniel Kahneman

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone.”

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

William Arthur Ward

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”