Best 12414 quotes in «success quotes» category

A vision without resources is an hallucination.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

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.

A winner never stops trying.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

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.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.