Success Quotes - Page 44

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.