Success Quotes - Page 138

I would have never dreamed that my career would be this successful. I grew up in an average home in Barbados, and we didn't live in the best neighborhood. But I was never aware that we were poor; my mom never made us feel that way. She loved me unconditionally. She made us feel anything was possible and instilled in me such confidence.

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Reconciliation has taken place here in Rwanda and was successful because Rwandans reconciled themselves internally. If the tribunal had taken place in Rwanda, it might have helped. People could have watched justice being done.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

I have had extreme ups and downs. The biggest thing I learned after I broke my wrist is to never give up. Nothing in life will ever come easy. It depends on how you deal with those obstacles and how you overcome those obstacles. If you can overcome them, you're a stronger person. If you make mistakes along the way, as long as you never make that same mistake again, you're a successful person.

You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.