Best 12414 quotes in «success quotes» category

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The hardest game to win is a won game

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems. That way, you'll never be thinking like a loser, and you probably won't look like one either.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

The lesser evil is also evil.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

The less you are like others, the less others will like you.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.