Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.
Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Achievement is talent plus preparation
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
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