Best 12414 quotes in «success quotes» category

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

In success be moderate.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is--ultimately--impossible.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life.

In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

I promote a healthy lifestyle.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.