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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.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.
Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.