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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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.
Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
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 don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Achievement is talent plus preparation
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Success is a process that never ends.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
Success is the child of audacity.
It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.
Success is never final.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
I admit that thoughts influence the body.
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.
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.
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
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.
Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good.
I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation. I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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.
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.
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.
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Step by step and the thing is done.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
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.
I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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.
We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
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.
Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.
This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action.
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.
In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'
Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
