Success Quotes - Page 148

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary

Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed every minister to clear the decks of any outstanding matters between us - Australia and the Brits. And she went out of her way to make sure that that was as successful a visit as it possibly could be.