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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.
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
There is no success without hardship.
You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
The motive of success is not enough.
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.
I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.
Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
When I was eleven, I just got good.
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun I generally bowl my best.
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
If you fall out of favor, you quickly stop being part of the conversation. But it can take one great project to turn things around. All you need is one hit or one great idea well-executed, and everybody's talking about you again.
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
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.
Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
