Quotes About Success

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

The Decathlon was conceived to assess the men's success from 65 to 80, but all but one of the events could be estimated for the 14 men who died between 58 and 64 years of age, and therefore they were included. Men who died before their 58th birthdays, however, were excluded. ** The men were coded

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Farming is the recreation of great men, the proper pursuit of dull men.

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment.

Success will require the studied lack of sophistication of a Ronald Reagan and the casual dishonesty of an FDR. The president must appear to be not very bright yet be able to lie convincingly.

The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts' success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.

Freedom of action based on commander's intent means that the expectation is success, not a particular way of achieving success.

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but to convince the public not only that he has a plan but that he is altogether confident in the plan's success and that only a cynic or someone in different to the public's well-being would dare to question him on the details.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

There is a saying attributed to him that helps explain his thinking: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The idea that emerged from both the New Deal and World War II was that a state managed by experts dedicated to solutions without an ideology would do for the country what it did for the war: it would breed success. But of course, this became a principle, the principle became a belief, and the belief became an ideology. The ideology created a class who felt entitled to govern and who were believed to be suitable to govern. It

There is a quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac: behind every great fortune there is a great crime.

Far from being greedy, America's leading entrepreneurs—with some exceptions—display discipline and self-control, hard work and austerity, excelling those found in any college of social work, Washington think tank, or congregation of bishops.