Formula for Success

I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is:

Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

No Hiding from Success

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many
menial and unimportant things that you have no time
to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
This applies to play as well as work.
A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
You are not here to fritter away your precious hours
when you have the ability to accomplish so much
by making a slight change in your routine.
No more busy work.
No more hiding from success.
Leave time, leave space, to grow.
Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

- Og Mandino

It Has Been a Successful Day

If I have been of service,

if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good,

if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action,

if I am at peace with myself,

it has been a successful day.

- Alex Noble

Success

There is only one success -

to be able to spend your life

in your own way.

- Christopher Morley

The Right Attitude

Nothing can stop the man
with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

Picture Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as
succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously.
Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles
in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale