Success Quotes - Page 90

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.