The Of Success Quotes
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.
I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.
Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level.
Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.
Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.
You have been doing something that has brought you success, and you are in the playoffs because you have been doing some thing right.
Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking.
An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
I still think most of my success came from the audience's reaction to me. It's weird when that happens but a lot of it came from what I did inside the ring.
To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.
When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.