Success Quotes - Page 108

Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.

To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.

Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

The key to success is to stay clean at all times.

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

The road to success is through commitment.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.