Success Quotes - Page 175

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Success is the best builder of character.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.