Success Quotes - Page 41

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.

It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking up about politics to begin with. People try to discredit you at every single corner, especially if you're a woman. So it's hard as an artist to really speak up about this kind of stuff when you're trying to be successful and have a career.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.