Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.

-John D. Rockefeller

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

-Henry Van Dyke

When you are doing the work you love, all else in life seems to fall into place. Your sense of personal worth is keen and you then see the personal worth of others.
-Nancy Anderson

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
-Booker T. Washington

I very much believe that success is a personal thing, very much dependent on how much a person deals with and approaches both opportunities and crisis.
-Millie J. Kronflu

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot