Success Quotes - Page 75

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Your voice can change the world.

I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.

I think everybody's goal was to make something that was really broad for a big audience, which was my goal too. But my main goal was that I wanted my audience to love it, because they're the ones who are going to buy it, and they're the ones who are going to tell their friends. And I wanted to make sure that core audience was really happy, because if they all buy it we have a successful movie.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.