Success depends upon previous preparation,
by Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Related topics: Motivational

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

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

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

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie