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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Great victory requires great risk. -Hera
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
The best teacher is very interactive.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.
If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.
Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Success ... seems to be connected with action.
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.
