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In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing....'Love thy work', and you will be successful..... If you do things just because you have to, then you will never enjoy work. Nor will you do a good job if you do it simply out of a sense of duty. stress is often a by-product of such passive or negative attitudes toward work. Paradoxically as it may sound, love of work can be the best medicine for workaholism.
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
There are no speed limits on the road to success.
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Success is man's god.
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.
Attain the unattainable.
In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
Success rarely brings satisfaction.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Success ... seems to be connected with action.
We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.
It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, "That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible."
Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
