Quotes About Success

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

On that long road to success, and I emphasize the word long, you will stumble. You have the choice of remaining on the ground or you can pick yourself up, and struggle again on that path that you hope will take you to the career or the success that you have dreamed of. Don't give up, just persevere."   Justice Joyce Kennard Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Assigning best people to the project ("If they're easy to give up, they're the wrong people.")

Ted was on a roll

Robert Dickie

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

success was when opportunity met preparation. To succeed you had to be prepared

success was when opportunity met preparation.

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow. Dreams are hard to catch, aren't they? Especially if you don't have the courage to try.

You just need to show a little initiative and you could have my job someday." Hooray! At least I'd have a window to throw myself out of when the boredom becomes unbearable. "So

Then a few started getting scholarships. Money talks, friend. The complainers got quieter than a nun in the confessional." "He

Did you do better than that?

you didn't get that self-assurance by just getting up every day and driving into an office. It came from competition, from putting yourself at risk of losing, then winning anyway.

My coach told me, in a not so ringing endorsement, "How can I cut a kid who tries so hard with so little success?" I didn't care.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone.

When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.

When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement. I've earned everything I've won, with my blood and sweat.

Sorcery thrives on success, not on failure.

If Nature wants you to succeed at something a situation will be created whereby you will request the right thing, knowingly or not.

The more important value for Jewish success was a high regard for the cultivation of the intellect…

Also instructive for anyone – Jew or non-Jews – looking to succeed in the modern world is the entire saga of Jewish history that has been discussed throughout this book. It shows how perseverance in the face of adversity can pay off in the long term.

That is why Jews succeeded as they did in Europe: Christian Europeans had created an environment in which Jews could thrive. Jews, who had recently been invited to become part of non-Jewish society, found themselves entering a world that was built on ideas that were already deeply entrenched in their own collective mindset.

It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.