Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.

Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.