SUCCESS (ACCOMPLISHMENTS)

SUCCESS – (ACCOMPLISHMENT)

“So my word that goes out from my mouth will be, it will not return to me without results, but it will certainly accomplish whatever is my delight, and it will have sure success in whatever I send it to do.” – Prophet Isaiah – Isa. 55:10 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I’ll show you a failure – Thomas Edison

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. – Lily Tomlin

It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

Genius is 3% inspiration and 97% perspiration. – Katherine Hepburn

If you continue to do the same things you’ve always done, you’ll get what you always got.  There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

Formula for success—under-promise and over-deliver. – Tom Peters

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?  We must have perseverance, and above all, confidence in ourselves.  We must believe we are gifted for something, and that is the thing, at whatever cost, that must be attained. – Madame Curie

Eighty per cent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. – Henry Ford

Behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law. – Voltaire

If you want anything done, ask a busy person to do it. The more you do, the more you CAN do. – Lucille Ball

Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

Our greatest glory is not in failing, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

People will pay more to be entertained than to be educated. – Johnny Carson

If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton

Failure is assured by continually pushing on doors marked pull. – Gary Pulliam

We make a living by what we get—we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ambition is a poor excuse for having enough sense to be lazy. – Steven Wright

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“This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom  you sent, Jesus Christ.” - Jesus Christ – John 17:3 – apostle John – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Every tub sits on its own bottom. – Zig Zigler

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. – English proverb

I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career.  I’ve lost almost 300 games.  Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot—and missed.  I’ve failed over and over and over in my life…and that’s why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

It’s not enough to succeed.  Others must fail. – Gore Vidal

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. – George Gobel

“And another thing, I want you to be more assertive!  I’m tired of everyone calling you Alexander the Pretty Good!” – His Mother to Alexander the Great as a kid. – Gary Larson– The FAR SIDE

Running water purifies itself—stagnant water becomes distilled poison. – Gary Pulliam

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill

Character matters.  Leadership descends from character. – Rush Limbaugh

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it. – Jonathan Winters

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. – Neil Simon

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. – Benjamin Disraeli

It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius

You ain’t goin’ nowhere son.  You oughta go on back to drivin’ a truck in Memphis.  – Jim Denny of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to Elvis Presley in 1954 after his audition.

Failure has a thousand explanations.  Success doesn’t need one. – Alec Guiness

Talent hits a target no one else can hit.  Genius hits a target no one else can see.    – Arthur Schopenhauer

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“You, though, keep you senses in all things, endure hardships, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.” – Apostle Paul – 2 Tim. 4:5 – HOLY BIBLE

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Coach Darrel Royal

The Lord gave us two ends—one to sit on and one to think with.  Success depends on which one we use the most. – Ann Landers

Yesterday’s Olympic winners would be beaten by today’s high school kids. – Paul Harvey

We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. – Decca Recording Company in rejecting a recording contact with the Beatles.

We spend our whole life selling other people ideas. – Art Linkletter

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. – Victor Hugo

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley

Ability is what you are capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it. – Coach Lou Holtz

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado

Attempt the impossible to improve your work. – Bette Davis

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andrew Gide

It’s not the hours in your work that counts—it’s the work in your hours. – Sam Ewing

Success means controlling your own time.  If you gain control over 60% of the time in your life, you are really successful.  Time is the most expensive currency, but once you spend it, it’s gone. – Rod Steiger

Even a mistake may turn out to be the only thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Andrew Carnegie

Fall down seven times—stand up eight. – Japanese proverb

Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat. – Ann Landers

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“Now I urge you brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you should all speak in agreement and that there should be no divisions among you, that you may be completely united in the same mind and in the same line of thought.” – Apostle Paul– 1 Cor. 1:10 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

The only way you can control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. –Tom Hanks

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however distant or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

When all else fails, follow directions. – Someone smart

Motivation – In an experiment bees were taken to outer space.  Because of weightlessness, they saw no need to fly.  They all DIED! – Paul Harvey

Success comes before work only in the dictionary. – Coach Vince Lombardi

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                                        

I always wanted to be somebody.  I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

What money?  A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between, does whatever he wants to do. – Bob Dylan

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire. – Robin Leach                                  

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. – Warren Buffett.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all their life to become well-known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred Allen

Talent is the gift plus the passion—a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it. – Neil Simon

Success is always temporary.  When it’s all said and done, the only thing you have left is your character. – Vince Gill

Things turn out best for those who make the best out of the way things turn out.   – Art Linkletter             

Success is a matter of luck.  Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.               – Winston Churchill

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“And Noah did according to all that God had commanded him.  He did just so.” – Moses –Gen. 6:22 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Success tries not to be a success, but rather be of value. – Albert Einstein

The great do what they like—the little do what they can. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

It’s better to aim at perfection and miss it than it is to aim at imperfection and hit it. – Thomas Watson

There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes

Do what you love and you will find a way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  – Lao Tzu

Don’t confuse fame with success.  Madonna is one—Helen Keller is the other.    – Erma Bombeck       

True success – keeping your mind awake and your desires asleep – Sir Walter Scott

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato                       

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

Success is not final: failure is not final.  It’s the courage to continue that counts.    – Winston. Churchill

Glance into the rearview mirror (past mistakes) but don’t gaze into it or you will lose sight of the future. – Anonymous

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. – Owen Meredith

Success is when preparation and opportunity meet. – Bobby Unser

I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success than a hundred per cent of nothing. – Art Linkletter                                             

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. – George Bernard Shaw                                                           

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. – Doug Larson

Success is a lousey teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.   – Bill Gates

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Everyday is a new opportunity.  You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start all over again.  That’s the way the game of life is, with a new game everyday, and that’s the way baseball is. – Bob Feller

Defenders never gain new ground. – Ira Hayes                                                 

Success is a journey, not a destination.  The doing is often more important than the outcome.  – Arthur Ashe

Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you’re doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Money won’t create success.  The freedom to make it will. – Nelson Mandela

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. – Zig Ziglar