Success Quotes - Page 13

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.