Success Quotes - Page 119

Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences,. . . . they are all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws of that one precept are: to write, you must start writing and then finish writing. And then, most likely, start writing all over again because this writing "thing" is one long and endless ride on a really weird (but pretty awesome) carousel. Cue the calliope music.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.