Second Hand Work

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia

It's not failure. It's unfinished success. - Unknown

God always strives together with those who strive. - Aeschylus

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca

You measure success by how much good you do for others. - Zig Ziglar

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. - Emily Dickinson

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

Self-acceptance leads to success, not the other way around. - Deepak Chopra

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. - John C Maxwell

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. - Dalai Lama

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. - Sam Ewing

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

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. Success feeds on itself. - Tal Ben-Shahar

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? - Jean Cocteau

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel. - Napoleon Hill

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. - Louise Bogan

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. - Theodore T. Hunger

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. - Ernest T. Seton

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could. - Paul Hogan

It's better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns

If A is success in life, then A = X + Y + Z. Work is X, play is Y, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. - Zig Ziglar

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. - Robin Sharma

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. - Paul L Dunbar

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. - Bhagavad Gita

Perseverance: outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. - R.S. Guthrie

You’ve got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance. - Lee Iacocca

No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That's why I'm here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself. - Unknown