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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.
Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.
I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek, But never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.
When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.