Daily Quote's to Ponder

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.

Without Arthur''s voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I''d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I''m always asked, ''What''s the secret to success?'' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

I''ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don''t make moves and when you don''t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you''re not competition.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn''t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Never give in and never give up.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it''s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress''s success.

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

In France, I guess there''s something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

Its success lies in the fact that it''s an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It''s so ridiculous to me.

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.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in this country. I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

One finds limits by pushing them.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

I can tell you from experience that God''s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

It''s not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can''t live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn''t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we''re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won''t come out while you''re watching.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don''t want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You''re used to doing well and it''s difficult to give that up.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I''ve been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren''t doing enough asking. And you''re probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That''s who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it''s a failure, you will fail above everyone else''s success.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can''t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else''s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Success unshared is failure.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That''s the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let''s say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

My definition of success is control.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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.

I''d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

The road to success runs uphill.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ''the book lady.'' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ''book lady'' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I''ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Before success comes in any man''s life, he''s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That''s exactly what the majority of men do.

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

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

But I think it''s more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

To begin, begin.

In the United States there''s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

As an outside; don''t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

Over the years, I''ve become barraged by comments from people, such as, ''Beam me up, Scotty!'' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn''t want to be mocked.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.