1. Abraham Lincoln (the 16th president of US):
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
2. Albert Einstein (American physicist and Nobel laureate):
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
3. Anna Pavlova(Russian ballerina):
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
4. Benjamin Franklin (American philosopher, scientist, painter, author and diplomat):
There are no gains without pains.
5. Emily Dickinson (American poet and literature author):
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
6. Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect):
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
7. Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of US):
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
8. George Washington Carver (American educator and innovator in agricultural science):
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
9. Havelock Ellis (British psychologist and author):
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
10. Helen Keller (American author and lecturer):
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
11. Henry David Thoreau (American writer, philosopher and naturalist):
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
12. Henry Ford (American industrialist):
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
13. Oliver Wendell Holmes (American writer and physician):
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
14. Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter):
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
15. Pearl S. Buck (American novelist):
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
16. Ralph Waldo Emerson (American essayist and poet):
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
17. Robert F. Kennedy (US political leader and legislator):
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
18. Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th president of US):
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
19. Thomas Alva Edison (American inventor):
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
20. Vince Lombardi (football coach):
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
