What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you. (Quote by - Felicia Lamport)

No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage. (Quote by - Cardinal James Gibbons)

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

He that is overcautious will accomplish little. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. (Quote by - Jane Addams)

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women. (Quote by - Mary Field Belenky)

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. (Quote by - John B. Gough)

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead. (Quote by - James Caan)

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earths beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. (Quote by - William McFee)

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

Dont aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. (Quote by - David Frost)

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. (Quote by - Ralph C. Smedley)

They never fail who die In a great cause. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it. (Quote by - Julia Child)