Successful Quotes - Page 18

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

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

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.

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.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it. No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.

Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.