Success Quotes - Page 17

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.

Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.