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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
There is no success without hardship.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.
Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.
Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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.
Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.
The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.
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.
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.
My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Patience is a key element of success.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.
Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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.
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.
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.
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.
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.
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
I'm astonished by my success.
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.
Achievement is its own reward
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
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.
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.
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.