1. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 1 Success Self-trust is the first secret of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 2 Success Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force: I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. – Elaine Maxwell

3. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 3 Success Success demands singleness of purpose. – Vince Lombardi

4. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 4 Success The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back. – Sherry Lansing, Chairman, Paramount Pictures

5. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 5 Success The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

6. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 6 Success No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves. – Oprah Winfrey

7. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 7 Success The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. – E.M. Gray

8. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 8 Success To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. – Anatole France

9. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 9 Success Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. – John Keats

10. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 10 Success Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional “storms.” – Anthony Robbins

11. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 11 Success Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. – Deepak Chopra

12. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 12 Success The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn’t just happen. You don’t wake up one day and discover you’re a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time. – Alan Page

13. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 13 Success Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals. – Charles J. Givens

14. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 14 Success My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you’ll win every time. – Carolyn Warner

15. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 15 Success I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

16. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 16 Success The First Best-Kept Secret of Total Success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others. – Denis Waitley

17. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 17 Success The more we practice the habit of acting from a position of responsibility, the more effective we become as human beings, and the more successful we become as managers of our lives. – Joyce Chapman

18. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 18 Success Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence. – Colin Powell

19. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 19 Success The mind, especially the parts of it that imagine and talk to us, is what programs us for success or failure. – Bernie Zilbergeld & Arnold A. Lazarus

20. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 20 Success I hope I have convinced you—the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard. – Helen Gurley Brown

21. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 21 Success If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own. – Henry Ford

22. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 22 Success There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morely

23. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 23 Success Success is peace of mind in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden

24. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 24 Success Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others. – Marianne Williamson

25. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Success - 25 Success The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success. – Charles Garfield