“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

“You may have a success in life, but then just think of it—what kind of life was it? What good was it—you've never done the thing you wanted to in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.  …  I say, follow your bliss, and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.  …  Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.” ~Joseph Campbell

“Success is not to worry too much, to do the best you can . . . stick to your friends and pray they'll stick to you, and let God take care of the rest.” ~attributed to Jimmy Durante

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” ~Helen Keller

“If you are successful, you will gain some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.” ~Mother Teresa

“Don't let the glitter of success overshadow its true beauty: happiness.” ~Laney Mills

“The only place Success comes before Work is in the dictionary.” ~unknown

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

“ ... if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ~Thoreau

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” ~Louis D. Brandeis

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” ~Paul Valery

“Whether you think you can or can't—you are right.” ~Henry Ford

“Limited expectations yield only limited results.” ~Susan Laurson Willig

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.” ~Richard Bach

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else.” ~unknown

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.” ~unknown

“It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.” ~unknown

“The tassel is worth the hassle.” ~unknown

“If today's students can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.” ~unknown

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