Quotes About Success

But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful—and hence neither good nor bad.

Do your best to convince them. But act on your own, if justice requires it. If met with force, then fall back on acceptance and peaceability. Use the setback to practice other virtues. Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.

The thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful—and hence neither good nor bad.

Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.

Fire feeds on obstacles

Do not imagine that, if something is hard for you to achieve, it is therefore impossible for any man; but rather consider anything that is humanly possible and appropriate to lie within your own reach too.

If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don't imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.

His operations were followed by complete success; but the troubles of late years had been too much for his constitution, at no time robust, and on March 17, 180, he died in Pannonia.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

These four characteristics — simplicity, frequent interaction, focus on the future, and self-tracking — are the foundation for a successful "performance management" routine.

second, that everyone, regardless of who they are, will want to be promoted out of the job as soon as possible.

Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful.

During Gallup's interviews with great managers, we found a consistent willingness to hire employees who, the managers knew, might soon earn significantly more than they did.

Don't helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain.

Partnership is not the crutch of the imperfect, but the secret of the successful.

procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy.

And the only reason that "running around your backhand" has become an idiom for avoiding a weakness is that this is exactly what we see great tennis players do, time and time again, whether it's Juan Martín del Potro, Rafael Nadal, or countless others. The phrase describes the act of avoiding a weakness in order to play to a strength, and the lesson from the best is that this leads toward high performance, not away from it.

You will have your own examples of a work environment that seems to be firing on all cylinders. It will be a place where performance levels are consistently high, where turnover levels are low, and where a growing number of loyal customers join the fold every day.

In the United States, the central values of our culture are the "three A's": attractiveness, achievement, and affluence. For

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.