Best 12414 quotes in «success quotes» category

I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.

If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.

If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.