Quotes About Success

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

The most frequent cause of failures in business is not people who answered the right questions incorrectly, but people who answered the wrong questions correctly. I have seen many companies "incrementalize" themselves into a corner, through a series of small—what appeared optimal—decisions, often based on erroneous assumptions.

Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

Because we have God's Spirit, we have EVERYTHING we need to succeed at life and godliness. We

If I have played my part well, then give me applause.

In Sallust's view, the moral fibre of Roman culture had been destroyed by the city's success and by the wealth, greed and lust for power that had followed its conquest of the Mediterranean and the crushing of all its serious rivals. The crucial moment came eighty-three years before the war against Catiline, when in 146 BCE Roman armies finally destroyed Carthage, Hannibal's home base on the north coast of Africa.

even the British left-wing Fabian Society adopted his name and example – the message being, 'if you want the revolution to be successful, you must, like Fabius, bide your time'.

If Caesar really did advocate life imprisonment in 63 BCE, then it was probably the first time in Western history that this was mooted as an alternative to the death penalty, without success.

It was, Polybius argued, such balances across the political system that produced the internal stability on which Roman external success was built.

To make big money in the investment world you have to learn to think independently; to think independently you need to be comfortable standing alone.

Mary Buffett

The artist who cannot conquer difficulties is not going to be much of a success.

It's the odious, insufferable people who usually get to the top.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Remember, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.