Success Quotes - Page 47

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!

Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.