The Of Success Quotes

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

It doesn't matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

The ultimate success of Masonry depends on the intelligence of her disciples.

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.