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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.
Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.
Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.
The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.
The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.
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Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
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.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.
One fails forward toward success.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
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.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive... that I'd never amount to anything.
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.
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.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
