Linda Sepadin
-Earl Nightingale"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather is a lack of will." -Vincent Lombardi"As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall." -Anonymous "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." -Arthur Ashe "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." -Roger Ward Babson "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." -Al Bernstein "It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." -Eddie Cantor "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." -Dale Carnegie "I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." -Bill Cosby "Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them." -Dick Van Dyke"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison "The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -Franklin Field "Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character." -Vince Gill "The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." - Thomas Edison "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein "My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women." -Woody Allen "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." -Sandra Carey "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." -Igor Stravinsky "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill "To laugh often and much;To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;To appreciate beauty;To find the best in others;To give of one's self;To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived -This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice who specializes in helping individuals, families and couples overcome self-defeating patterns of behavior. She is the author of Master Your Fears: How to Triumph Over Your Worries and Get On With Your Life (John Wiley, 2004.) Copyright 2005