Quotes About Success

Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?

There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.

Water boils at 212 degrees. At 211 degrees it's just hot. Every degree is needed.

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you. These things can define you or you can define yourself through them. I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life. It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending. Now I am going to work on my next one.

All systems go. Everything is A-OK.

praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit

Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance

Success is often to be found at the edge of failure

Just remember that the goal is for us to capture all we want

What if the greatest part of the pack have run upon a false scent, may not the hindmost dog hit it off?

When I wanted to publish my first book and all doors were closed, it was a friend, Dr. Stanley Obresi, from University of Ghana who introduced me to a publishing house. The rest is history.

I was told that if you work hard, bust your butt, go to school, and get great grades, you'd do well in life. That's a bunch of crap. Today we have better information about how the universe operates and how we operate.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I'm a little surprised that commercial success has arrived. I used to think that it was hopeless, that it would never happen.

He who challenges me, praises me!

But living well is the best revenge, isn't it," she declared.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

The kids who could wait fifteen minutes for a marshmallow had an SAT score that was, on average, 210 points higher than that of the kids who could wait only thirty seconds.

Being a heretic can be fun, but being a successful heretic is mostly hard work.

people readily accept credit when told they have succeeded, attributing it to their ability and effort. Yet they attribute failure to such external factors as bad luck or the problem's "impossibility." When we win at Scrabble, it's because of our verbal dexterity. When we lose, it's because "I was stuck with a Q but no U.

To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved—these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more

hard-working Krafve explains gamely that when a company