Quotes About Success

We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination.

Pride, O pride, thy prize!

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

But JFK would drive by during lunch hour, when the employees would vacate the upper floors and go down to eat or leave the building to watch as the president passed. By a little after noon, Oswald could expect to have the entire sixth floor to himself. But this advantage offered no guarantee of success.

believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.

Hierarchy and discipline gave shape to the world;that was what he had always believed.Life was made easy by adherence toa rigid structure.But maybe that only really worked when you were at the top of the ladder,when you were doing well.The further down the rungs you went,the more of a victim of circumstances you became and the less it mattered whether or not you were in control.

Success doesn't come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.

If you wish to maximize your leadership effectiveness, begin with the assumption that you'll be interacting in some way with this person again in the future, and that this relationship will be critical to your mutual success.

Learning is the master skill. When you fully engage in learning—when you throw yourself wholeheartedly into experimenting, reflecting, reading, or receiving coaching—you are going to experience the thrill of improvement and the taste of success.

Hooker was a controversial choice, but he did everything right in his first three months of command and appeared to have vindicated Lincoln's decision until he stumbled at Chancellorsville.

Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters , is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together . [ Letter to Edward Livingston, 10 July 1822 - Writings 9:100--103 ]

They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. Their "I was raised with nuthin' and went to Harvard anyway" experience was the criterion that white editors used to hire them. But then again, that was partly how I got through too. The whole business made me want to scream.

Don't be afraid to fail. Persevere through mistakes and struggles. Stay focused, patient, confident, and smart and you'll have a better chance of making money.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries

The only person holding you back; is you. Once you become comfortable with overcoming your own fears, you will start seeing dramatic success in your life.

The more comfortable you can be with being uncomfortable, the faster you will grow as a human being, and the more success you will have in life. This is exactly what distinguishes successful people from unsuccessful ones.

When you set goals, use the S.M.A.R.T criterion, which stands for: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely goals.

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

It's all about your mindset. Successful people tend to focus on growth, solving problems, and self-improvement, while unsuccessful people think of their abilities as fixed assets and avoid challenges.

you plan to fail if you fail to plan

Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures.

Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.