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Success

The successful person is the individual person who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
—Donald Riggs

Nature gave men two ends—one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
—George R. Kirkpatrick

Make yourself indispensable and you’ll be moved up. Act as if you’re indispensable and you’ll be moved out.
—Anonymous

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
—Andrew Carnegie

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
—Benjamin Disraeli

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
—Henry Ford


Enthusiasm

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
—Charles Buxton

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
—Winston Churchill

To bring oneself to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
—Thomas A. Buckner

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
—C. Malesherbez

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
—Thomas N. Carruther


Courage

Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can’t practice any other virtue and consistency.
—Maya Angelou

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
—Rollo May

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
—Frank Scully


Security

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature….Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
—Helen Keller

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower


Self-doubt

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
—Alexandre Dumas

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
—Christian Bovee


Goals

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
—Billy Wilder

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
—Washington Irving

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing out the grass. “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
—Harmon Killebrew


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