SUCCESS

The Paradoxical Commandments 

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway." 

— Kent M. Keith (The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council)

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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind. Bobby Davro

Do what you love, and do it often This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV. Alastair humphreys

Do what you love and you will never work a day all your life. Alastair humphreys (adverturer, author and motivatinal speaker.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. Julia Child

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. — W.P. Kinsella

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. — Maya Angelou

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. Jim Rohn

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. Brian Tracy.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. — Winston S. Churchill

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. — Herbert Bayard Swope
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. — Marilyn Monroe

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. — Bette Midler

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. — Bob Newhart

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.  — Walt Disney Company

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.  — Mark Twain

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. — Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets. — Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. S. Hawking

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. A. R. Rahman
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Napoleon Hill
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. Arnold H. Glasow
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. Oscar Wilde

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Jim Rohn

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key tohappiness.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. A. Einstein

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or  reservation.