Quotes About Success

Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland—who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

Think of a positive outcome, and you will achieve it. Allow doubt to enter your mind, and the doubt will become self-fulfilling.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it. Don't give up

If you worry that you'll lose, you probably will.

U bent een uitstekende koning, sire. En uw dochter zal een uitstekende koningin worden. Maar dan moet u haar wel de kans gunnen en geven om in die rol te groeien.

In his experience, people who attributed their success to luck often had a lot to do with making their own luck.

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Delays and laziness are the two great gulfs in which multitudes of souls are drowned and perish.

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success

Selling is not complicated. If salespeople consistently practice the fundamentals—getting up early, contacting prospective clients, sharing their belief in their products and services, following up with customers—they'll be successful.

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SYSTEMS TEND TO MALFUNCTION CONSPICUOUSLY JUST AFTER THEIR GREATEST TRIUMPH. Fully

High-Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.