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There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
God helps those who help themselves.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.
True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.
Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Honor lies in honest toil.
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.
Attain the unattainable.
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self.
The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.
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.
I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.
The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
Patience is a key element of success.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
Players win games, teams win championships.
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.
The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.
The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.
Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.
Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.
Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.
