Best 12414 quotes in «success quotes» category

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

He who conquers self conquers all.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.