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Thoughts by Booker T. Washington

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Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Related topics: Motivational

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb PHOTO

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford PHOTO

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey PHOTO

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson PHOTO

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll PHOTO
(Alice in Wonderland)

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill PHOTO
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy PHOTO

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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.
- Vince Lombardi

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

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

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

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

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

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

I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

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.
- Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi


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