Quotes About Success

Logan Pearsall Smith packed a lot of wisdom into a few words when he said: "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Get your principles right, said Napoleon, and the rest is a matter of detail.

She was nineteen, had graduated from high school three years previously, and her business experience was a trifle more than zero. She became one of the most proficient secretaries west of Suez, but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

By 1914, having tapped into the average American's desire to have more self-confidence, Carnegie was earning around five hundred dollars every week. By 1916, he was able to rent the Carnegie Hall in order to lecture to a packed house.

The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self…. All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts…. A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.

working to focus our attention on the positive.

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review how he refers to himself on his website or blog.

later confirmed by additional studies made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.

How well you own up to your mistakes makes a bigger impression than how you revel in your successes.

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

But for women, the conflict between sex role and artistic commitment goes much deeper: The successful woman is-almost by definition-the one who sacrifices her self, her creativity and intellectuality, who puts them into personal (read male) and not professional (read competition) commitments.

Any voice that promises total exemption from suffering and failure is most certainly not God's voice. In recent years innumerable spokespeople for God have offered ways we can use God and his Bible as guarantees of health, success and wealth.

falling short to deliver responses is one of the most popular blunders that innovators create.

The reluctant leader doesn't merely give accolades to others. It is her true joy to see others awaken to their potential and exceed their greatest dreams. It is the hope of every good teacher to have students who take their work further than the teacher was able to do. To be surpassed is the ideal. To be replaced is the goal, not a sign of failure.

Self-doubt is common when our efforts fail to bring results. Failure is a rock in our shoe that nags us until we find relief. At first, failure to achieve our desired end will elicit careful scrutiny (What can I do better?) and resumed commitment (How can I try harder?). Success may be achieved—straight As, an athletic scholarship, perfect Sunday school attendance—but the real goal—a happy family, an end to the abuse, or relief from the pain—is always out of reach.

It could also be applied to the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other successful religious movements. If smoke is evidence of fire, are they all true?

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.

And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.

Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.