Success Quotes - Page 106

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

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.

Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

I feel very lucky to be successful in what i love doing everyday.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Enthusiasm means everything. Not just a little. Everything. If you are involved in some kind of project right now, or launching any personal endeavor, your enthusiasm (or lack of it) will directly determine how successful this undertaking will be. If you are not excited at the core of your being by it, drop it right now. If you are excited at the core of your being, demonstrate that in everything you think and say and do.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

If you are inspiring others to do better, you're successful.

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

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

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.