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

 –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The role of the artist is tragic today because while the world’s horizons have been extended, the human heart is as small as ever.

–Marc Chagall

God gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; heads you win, tails you lose.

–anonymous

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

 –Albert Einstein

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

 –George Burns

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

 –Winston Churchill

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

–Calvin Coolidge

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

 –John Foster Dulles

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

 –Henry Kissinger

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

 –Thomas Jefferson

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

–John Ruskin

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

 –Woodrow Wilson

Of  course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

–Arthur Rubinstein

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

–Bob Dylan

Underpromise; overdeliver.                                        –Tom Peters

What am I in the eyes of most people?  A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, such a nobody.

–Vincent VanGogh