Avenues to Success Notes: 10 Bits of Advice for College Students From . . .

1929-2009, American businessman and author

The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential.
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Intellectual passions drives or sensuality.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Time stays long enough for those who use it.

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On page 97, in the book, The big picture: getting perspective on what's really important in life by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, I found Walter Anderson's Seven Rules to Live By to help college students succeed:

Know who is responsible. "I am responsible." When you begin with these three words, you can build a new life, even a new world.
Believe in something big. When we commit to high ideals, we succeed before the outcome is known. Your life is worth a noble motive.
Practice tolerance. You'll like yourself a lot more and so will others.
Be Brave. Remember, courage is acting with fear, not without it. If the challenge is important to you, you're supposed to be nervous; we only worry about things we care about.
Love someone. Because you should know joy.
Be ambitious. No single effort will solve all your problems, achieve all your dreams, or even be enough --- and that's okay. To want to be more than we are is real and normal and healthy.
Smile. Because no one else can do this for you.

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8. Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
9. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
10. Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

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Here are 10 of Robert Brault's quotes to help college students succeed:

We all have our limitations, but when we bend to our critics, we also have theirs.
In MacArthur's words "duty, honor, country", you have the complete canon and, importantly, the right sequence. Indeed, if you have acted from duty and honor, you have already fulfilled all obligations to country.
Not all worries end up as water under the bridge or over the dam. Some evaporate.
There is a causal relationship between effort and achievement known to the underachiever as luck.
To meet someone, someone must meet you, and for that purpose, you must be yourself.
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
Enjoy the little things, one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.
Most obstacles in life have no power to stop you but only to make you stop yourself.

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