Quotes About Success

Professional sports is a business.

The greatest virtues among terrestrial objects were attributed to gems, some of which, it was believed, could confer wisdom and eloquence, graciousness or success or riches upon their bearers, or even make them invisible.

despite its shortcomings the First Crusade was one of the most daring and brilliantly successful military expeditions recorded in history.

Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.

I cannot help feeling that to die at the height of a man's career, universally honoured and admired, to die while great issues are still commanding the whole of his interest, to be taken from us at the moment when he could already see ultimate success in view—is not the most unenviable of fates." A number of those present thought Churchill was talking about himself, as well as the man to whom he was paying tribute.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.

When we know Christ, it should show in our overflow, regardless of our relative success or discouragement in the face of rejection.

Our Lord's divinity has never been hesitant to step into the mess of humanity. He is the great answer to our every desire. And He will not let our need for divine, deep love meant to be fulfilled by Him alone be cheaply met by lesser things. He may very well give us good gifts. He may entrust to us relationships and success and blessings of all kinds. After all, He loves to give good gifts to those He loves. But He will not honor the chase of these things.

If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

every great success story has elements of failure.

The theme of obeying God runs from Genesis to Revelation, and it is vital to our children's success in life. A child who has a heart that is willing to surrender to God and fulfill every divine appointment given to him or her is a success.

Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails (Proverbs 19:21). Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:3). In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps (Proverbs 16:9).

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail".

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -- to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Chance happens to all ... but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Success never needs an excuse.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.

a successful communication] we now define concisely as 'cooperative modeling'—cooperation in the construction, maintenance, and use of a model.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.