Quotes about success
success hunting duck-hunting
No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often. Theodore Roosevelt
success character men
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
success pain mean
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
success encouragement determination
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
success air hands
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air. Theodore Dreiser
success trying world
Trying will do anything in this world.
successful thinking trying
I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine. Tessanne Chin
success trying use
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do. Terry McMillan
successful ideas people
As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ... Margaret Sanger
success america people
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. Margaret Mead
successful player two
There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful. Marcus Allen
successful hardest
The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones. Marcus Brigstocke
successful opportunity men
Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races. Marcus Garvey
success effort individual
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
successful race years
Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.
successful insecure average
I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of. Kevin Sorbo
successful pumps wonderful
Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business. Kevin Systrom
successful people luck
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There's a reason for this. The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation. Michael Lewis
success business communication
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. Michael Faraday
success business good-luck
I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy. Michael Bloomberg
success business responsibility
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
successful needs traders
The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes. Michael Steinhardt
successful liberty fabric
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. Michael Parenti
successful thinking mirrors
I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups. Michael Horton
successful secret resources
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. Michael Ignatieff
successful people biographies
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful. Michael Eisner
success father self
When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about. Michael Douglas
success class issues
It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent.
successful culture riches
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so. Ravi Zacharias
successful goal design
Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters. Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well; managing your time well makes you successful. Goals, Priorities, and Planning. Why am I doing this? What is the goal? Why will I succeed? What happen if I chose not to do it? 'Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement'. Randy Pausch
success determination hard-work
A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.
success tables welcome
Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.