Quotes About Success

If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Malcolm Folley

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Only a handful of companies understand that all successful business operations come down to three basic principles: People, Product, Profit. Without TOP people, you cannot do much with the others.

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.