Success Quotes - Page 71

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.