Quotes About Success

Why should we not shep naches from the accomplishments of our machines? This vicarious joy or success sounds somewhat odd, but it shouldn't be. We get excited when our sports team wins a game; why should it disturb or disappoint us when our creations turn out to be more accomplished than ourselves?

Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

This is not a feel-good book. (But I am confident you will feel good after reading it.) It is not a motivational book. (But I promise you will be motivated once you are done.)

In his long evolutionary history, man has scored few greater successes than his creation of human society. For it is on that primeval achievement that he has built those special qualities of mind and of behaviour which, in his own view at least, separate him from lower forms of life. If we sometimes tend to overlook this fact it is only because we have lived so long under the protective ambience of society that we have come to take its benefits for granted.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

In life, we can work so hard to get the kinks out that we forget to put the peaks in.

for creating a successful idea: a Simple Unexpected Concrete Credentialed Emotional Story.

Don't obsess about the failures. Instead, investigate and clone the successes.

When Blakely and her brother were growing up, her father would ask them a question every week at the dinner table: "What did you guys fail at this week?" "If we had nothing to tell him, he'd be disappointed," Blakely said. "The logic seems counterintuitive, but it worked beautifully. He knew that many people become paralyzed by the fear of failure.

Some powerful defining moments contain all four elements. Think of YES Prep's Senior Signing Day: the ELEVATION of students having their moment onstage, the INSIGHT of a sixth grader thinking That could be me, the PRIDE of being accepted to college, and the CONNECTION of sharing the day with an arena full of thousands of supportive people. (See the footnote for a mnemonic to remember this framework for defining moments.)

What's working and how can we do more of it?" That's the bright-spot philosophy in a single question.

Buckingham has a fine series of books on making the most of your strengths rather than obsessing about your weaknesses.)

Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory.

Any new quest, even one that is ultimately successful, is going to involve failure.

if people are facing a daunting task, and their instinct is to avoid it, you've got to break down the task. Shrink the change. Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory.

By using Kamb's level-up strategy, we multiply the number of motivating milestones we encounter en route to a goal. That's a forward-looking strategy: We're anticipating moments of pride ahead.