Quotes About Success

Here is one scholar's description of life among the Navajo: "No one who actively seeks power is to be trusted. Leaders arise out of example and emulation. If someone is successful at growing corn, he is emulated and to that extent is a leader. If someone knows many verses to a curing chant, he is respected for that accomplishment and his status as a 'singer' is considerable. Politicking, handshaking Ã¢â'¬Â¦ have no place in traditional Navajo society.

An interesting question these psychologists tend not to ask is why the muscle metaphor is apt. In other words, why is it that early successes at self-discipline lead to more successes, whereas early lapses lead to more lapses? If self-discipline is really good for the organism, you wouldn't expect natural selection to make it so easy for a few early lapses to destroy self-discipline. Yet there's no denying that a few injections of heroin can be the end of a productive life. Why?

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

The trick to developing a new computer or program, then, is not to hire a lot of smart people but to hire a few very smart people. This rule lies at the heart of most successful ventures in the personal computer industry.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Me tembló el alma. ¿Qué hacer, qué podría hacer para triunfar, para tener dinero, mucho dinero? [...] comprendí que nunca me resignaría a la vida penuriosa que sobrellevaban naturalmente la mayoría de los hombres

Me tembló el alma. ¿Qué hacer, que podría hacer para triunfar, para tener dinero, mucho dinero?...Y no sabiendo si pudiera asesinar a alguien, si al menos hubiera tenido a algún pariente, rico, a quien asesinar y responderme, comprendí que nunca me resignaría a la vida penuriosa que sobrellevan naturalmente la mayoría de los hombres. De pronto se hizo tan evidente en mi conciencia la certeza de que ese anhelo de distinción me acompañaría por el mundo.

The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.

Nevertheless his work lived on, precariously, desperately (as he would have wished, perhaps), yet it lived on. A handful of young men read it, reinvented him, tried to become his followers, but how can you follow someone who is not moving, someone who is trying, with every appearance of success, to become invisible?

Para nosotros el triunfo es la muerte del intelecto y de la imaginación. Nunca fuimos leales a los triunfadores.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Excess is success.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

The Holy Spirit will never guide you into defeat! He will always guide you into victory, success, accomplishment, abundant life, soundness, happiness, and security—both in the spirit and in the natural.

If you were a human sperm, there is no prize for coming second.

In choosing a man or men with whom to share her life, a woman has two major issues to consider. On the one hand, she needs a man who can help her raise her children. On the other, she needs genes that in combination with her own will produce attractive, fertile and successful children.

In some species, females are so successful as prostitutes that they never need to find food themselves.

This conclusion does not mean, as people often assume, that a woman should therefore seek to be raped. On the contrary, it is reproductively important to the woman that her body collect genes from only the most successful of rapists. If she conceives to an inept rapist, doomed quickly to be caught and to suffer social retribution and incarceration, her male descendants would inherit unsuccessful characteristics.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,' 

I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.

Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.