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I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Patience is the art of hoping.
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.
Do your practice and all is coming.
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Success is the best builder of character.
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.
We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.
I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
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.
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
99 percent of success is built on failure.
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
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.
Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.
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.
To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive... that I'd never amount to anything.
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
Achievement is its own reward
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action.
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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 mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.
Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.
My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice.
It's always interesting to watch people who have been incredibly successful in their own businesses work in a group made up of equally strong personalities. It takes a special kind of leader who can effectively manage a team of veritable strangers and find the best way to get strong, winning performances from them.
Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
