Marcus Aurelius Antonius

"Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."

Artistotle

"The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal -- a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends -- wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Andrew Carnegie

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

Winston Churchill

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

"Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure."

Bill Cosby

"I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Walt Disney

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage."

"Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret ... can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."

"You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

Mike Ditka

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal."

Thomas Edison

"The three things that are essential to achievement are hard work, stick-to-it-iveness and common sense."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

"I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you."

Malcolm Forbes

"I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do."

Helen Keller

"Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles."

Norman Vincent Peale

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

Plutarch

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Gen. Colin Powell

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence."

Henry David Thoreau

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Mark Twain

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"Emperors, kings, artisans, peasants, big people, little people -- at the bottom we are all alike and all the same; all just alike on the inside, and when our clothes are off, nobody can tell which of us is which."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

Sam Walton

"There is only one boss -- the customer -- and he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else."

"The big lesson that we learned was that there was much, much more out there than we ever dreamed of."

"Desire and willingness to work make up for a lack of experience."

"I believe in always having goals and always setting them high."

"We had to keep expenses to a minimum -- that is where it started. Our money was made by controlling expenses."

Jonathan Winters

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."