Success Quotes - Page 171

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a good cause. Since most Americans don't know or care what the Constitution says, let alone what their ancestors thought it meant, the great liberal snow job has been very successful.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

There is no success or failure in Nature.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

Remember that the headline and the appeals are ONE AND THE SAME. In successful ads, the appeal is almost always expressed in the headline.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

The difference between success and failure is work.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

We got to keep on being a success.