Quotes About Success

You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. —DR. PHIL MCGRAW

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

I didn't just come in on a load of turnips!

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you've got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.

Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

Hell hath little fury like that of a critic who sees a writer make it big.

Absolutely nobody in the entire United States of America has even a modicum of interest in who I am, but I'm determined to change that. Because if I can pull it off here, then I can kiss goodbye to tedious speeches, crappy TV jobs and all the other nonsense I have to do back in England to pay the bills.

then America still has the power to change, and to change quickly and for the better. And I hope it does, because a successful America, with a new-found

Ich kenne keinen sicheren Weg zum Erfolg, nur einen zum sicheren Misserfolg-es jedem recht machen zu wollen.

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

you don't seem to love money too much. And those who haven't made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who [c] haven't.

Today Learner is Tomorrow Leader

It's not from money that excellence comes, but from excellence money and the other things, all of them, come to be good for human beings, whether in private or in public life.

Consider, too, how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

But when I hear other kinds of discussion, especially the talk of rich businessmen like you, I get bored and feel sorry for you and your friends, because you think you're doing something important, when you're not. Perhaps you regard me as a failure, and I think you're right. But I don't THINK you're a failure, I KNOW you are.

So we would be right to say the seers and prophets just mentioned are 'divine' and 'inspired' – likewise, everyone with a knack for poetry. Likewise, politicians and public figures are nothing less than divine and possessed when – under some god's inspiration and influence – they give speeches that lead to success in important matters, even they have no idea what they are talking about. – Quite so.

And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance the one always rises as the other falls.

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon