Master Of One Thing

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Winning Half The Battle

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden

Happiness Is The Key

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

Being Happy

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Woody Allen

No Cosmetic For Beauty

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

Greater Benefit

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Never Give Up

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Determination to succeed

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

A Second Time

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

George Bernard Shaw

Man Of Value

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Another Door Opens

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 Best Years Of Your Life

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

Requisite For Success

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wanting What You Want

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Staying Down

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

New Paths

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

Our Subconscious Mind

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Robert Collier