Success Quotes - Page 66

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

If you don't value your time, neither will others.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

It is important to recognize the small successes.