Walkup's Way Home Selected Quotations on Success

We are as successful as we choose to be.
 Our past choices determine our  present success  and our lives. Louise Walkup

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People are as successful as they aim to be. Louise Walkup

The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda. - John C. Maxwell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. ~Colin Powell

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

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people. Leo Tolstoy.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the only thing that ensures the successful outcome of the venture.  William James  (1842-1910)

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.  Marva Collins, American Educator

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is   usually more important than the outcome. -- Arthur Ashe 

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. John D. Rockerfeller

Success and character are synonymous; one's character determines one's success. Louise Walkup

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -- May Smith

The only certain means of success is to render more and     better service than is expected of you, no matter what     your task may be. . . The surest way to doom yourself to     mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you     are paid.     --Og Mandino in "The Greatest Miracle in the World" 

Success is the sum of all  your decisions.  Louise Walkup

A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do. ~ Albert Gray

Exponential success is the product of all decisions made over time. Louise Walkup

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. Sherry Lansing, Chairman, Paramount Pictures - quoted in On Course by Downing.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success. - Dale Carnegie

A successful life is nothing more than a string of successful days. Hal Urban

Success is the progressive accomplishment of worthy goals. Hal Urban 

A man can succeed at almost anything  for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.  Charles M. Schwab

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

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 hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Og Mandino

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do.  The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all  that you do.  make yourself  so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.   Og Mandino

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.  Harvey Mackay

Coming together is a beginning. 
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.  Henry Ford

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

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.-- Charles Luckman

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic, that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number seventy-one!'-- Richard M. Devos, Founder of Amway and self-made billionaire

Success is a journey, not a destination. --Ben Sweetland

 One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments. -- Henry Ward Beecher

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. --Benjamin Disraeli

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.  They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. --Bruce Barton

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. --Charles Kendall Adams

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. --Robert Collier

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. --Mark Caine

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. --Orison Swett Marden

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. : Mario Andretti, race car driver

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.--Dale Carnegie

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.--Thomas J. Watson

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through." -- Captain Edward V.Rickenbacker

Success is the ultimate revenge.  L. Walkup

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.  --Bill Gates, Microsoft founder

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time."  Joe Girard 

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

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.-- Harvey S. Firestone

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success. --Dale Carnegie

Success is dependent on effort. Sophocles

Successful, happy people live their lives in accordance with natural laws. -– Brian Tracy

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for  his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
 
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. --William Feather

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. - Norman
Vincent Peale

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. -- Helen Hayes

The one thing that will guarantee the successful conclusion of a doubtful undertaking is faith in the beginning that you can do it.William James, Founder of American psychology

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~Robert Collier 

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy
your hunger, but it won't taste good.  -- Joe Paterno

Success is getting up one more time that you fall down. Anon

True success is the art of living well in the present, while creating and building for the future. . Dr. Phil Humbert

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.  Irving Berlin

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

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."  --Carrie Fisher

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. --Jacqueline Briskin

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.  -- Anonymous

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed.--Alan Loy McGinnis

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.Christopher Lasch

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. --B. C. Forbes

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.  --Coco Chan.

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.-- Charles Luckman

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.  --Peter Drucker.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. Og Mandino

Success comes in cans, not in cannots. Anon

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest  by helping others to succeed.   --Napoleon Hill  

I create  my own definition of success and spend every day joyfully working toward my goals.  Dr. Richard Carlson

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. --Paul Sweeney

Success is a state of mind.  If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Dr. Joyce Brothers.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished   plans, finding our failures were successes.   -- Amos Bronson Alcott  
 

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is   usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone   can be Number 1.   -- Arthur Ashe  

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.      --  Harvey Mackay

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through. Eddie Rickenbacker

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after   others have let go.   --William Feather

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. -- Walter Cronkite

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

If you want to succeed in life...you...need to know what you believe in....Then you have to have the courage to act on those beliefs. Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of NYC

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau

Your chances of success in any understanding can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Robert Collier

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to   accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.   -- Bunker Hunt  

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel. -- Denis Waitley

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.-- Nido Qubein

Success is never ending, failure is never final -- Dr. Robert Schuller

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. -- Mary Kay

We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them determines how successful you are. --Craig McFarlane

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. John d. Rockefeller

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln.