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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.
Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.
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.
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
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.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
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.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
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.
Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
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.
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]
Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.
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.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
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.
By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.