Success Quotes - Page 172

The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss'

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it for the bloke next door and then hope the art world is going to look at it. That's one of the big mistakes people make.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.