To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
-Anna Pavlova:

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-Roger Babson

 Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
-William J. H. Boetcker

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
-General George S. Patton

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
-Warren Buffett

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

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

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
-David Brinkley

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-Henry Ward Beecher

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash
-Henry Ford

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

-Pablo Picasso

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.  Courage is what counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill

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

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, or a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FK2Rqdy-Y[/youtube]

The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.

-Robert Orben

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate.Graduation is a process that goes on  until the last day of your life.If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
-Arie Pencovici

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree.  You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative.Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
-Tom Brokaw

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
-Theodore Roosevelt

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
-Author Unknown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
-Les Brown

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
-Newton D. Baker

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
-Henry Ford

Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade”  Instead, learn the trade.
-Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
_David Lloyd George

All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney