Daily Quote's to Ponder

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Just remember, you can''t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ''Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.'' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it''s not that simple.

Infuse your life with action. Don''t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

There''s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn''t tell you about it?

Fear of failure, it''s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

The best revenge is massive success.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don''t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn''t count unless you earn it fair and square.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Successful people make money. It''s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it''s being true to their nature... that''s what takes a long time to learn.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

I''d love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I''m proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ''The X Factor.'' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

Don''t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

It''s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It''s a huge success story.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

My success has been something I''ve worked a long time at and it''s been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don''t really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there''s a big difference.

One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler''s success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday''s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That''s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that''s the way baseball is.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn''t work. You can''t have success and be faceless.

The winner''s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner''s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

You can''t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

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

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That''s success.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don''t give up. Don''t lose hope. Don''t sell out.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

After a storm comes a calm.

You see, money isn''t everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Just because my bank account hasn''t swelled astronomically I don''t consider myself any less of a success.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

The concept of the ''good ol'' days'' must be one of our society''s biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Only the educated are free.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

I don''t know what it''s like to have a typical father figure. He''s not the dad who''s going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he''s such a motivational person.

Success doesn''t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won''t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

No skill shapes a child''s future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

It always seems impossible until it''s done.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Prospering just doesn''t have to do with money.

My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Success isn''t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

You have to make it happen.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

No matter how much success you''re having, you can''t continue working together if you can''t communicate.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The most important thing is being passionate about what you''re doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there''s so little competition.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won''t be corrupted. I''ll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man''s success in life.

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it''s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they''re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you''re in trouble. Just do what you love. That''s all I want to do.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.