If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

- Warren Wendel Wiersbe

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.

- Susan B. Anthony

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

- Thomas Alva Edison

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond.

- Zora Neale Hurston

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.

- Zig Ziglar

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

- Michael Korda

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- T. S. Eliot

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

- Barbara Kingsolver

?Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

- Jillian Michaels

Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Marsha Sinetar

The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

- Michael Korda

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.

- Henry Ford

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

- Robyn Allen



Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick



Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

- Steve Jobs



Of course there is not formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein



There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

- George Matthew Adams



Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

- Beatrix Potter



If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill



If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

- Maya Angelou



For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

- Oprah Winfrey



For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

- Betty Ford



I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

- Margaret Mead



Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin



Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov



I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

- Ken Venturi



Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

- Mia Hamm



A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

- Alistair Cooke



The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

- John Wooden



Nothing will work unless you do.

- John Wooden



No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.

- Jean de La Bruyere



The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

- Wilma Mankiller



It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

- Mia Hamm



I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

- George Burns



The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

- George Washington Carver



[S]uccess is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

- Michael Korda



There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

- George Washington Carver



The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

- Albert Einstein



Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.