Quotes About Success

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.