Success and Opportunity

"After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true." --Spock 

"Conquest is easy. Control is not." --Kirk 

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." --Gore Vidal 

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome." --Michael Jordan

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

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place at the next moment." --Oprah Winfrey 

"They are able because they think they are able." --Vergil 

"God helps those who help themselves." --Benjamin Franklin 

"Some people get breaks; some people make their own." --Anonymous 

"If you consistently do your best, the worst won't happen." --B. C. Forbes 

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore Roosevelt 

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." --Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." -- Christopher Lasch 

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." -- J. Paul Getty 

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust, sweat and blood: who knows the enthusiasm, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at best if he wins knows the thrill of high achievement and 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." --JFK 

"He that is over-cautious will accomplish little." --Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 

"The greater the obstacle, the greater in overcoming it." -- Moliere "It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." --Anais Nin 

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying." --Francis Bacon 

"Seek not outside yourself, Success is within." --Mary Lou Cook 

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." --Sophia Loren 

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, 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." -Helen Keller 

"In difficult situations when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are the safest." --Livy 

"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 

"There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way." --Christopher Morley 

"Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money." --Neil Simon 

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." --Demosthenes 

"A window of opportunity won't open itself." -- Dave Weinbaum 

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." -- Alexander Graham Bell 

"The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried." --Bud Wilkinson 

"On the day of victory no one is tired." -- Arab proverb 

"More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -- B. C. Forbes 

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Because of these, sometimes even when you lose, you win." --Elie Wiesel 

"The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can." --Dave Weinbaum