Quotes About Success

If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history's blessing.

Many people----women especially----remain trapped in the poverty into which they were born. The successful person from this background is the exception. The American dream is a double-edged sword in that those who are able to carve out their own destiny are also hard-pressed not to condemn those who get struck between the cracks.

We see how inherited wealth grants status without any guarantee of merit or talent.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

let's say you think you're committed to starting your own business. But your underlying commitment is actually to stay safe and small right where you are. Even as you make efforts to start your own business, some part of you is sabotaging those efforts and ensuring you fail.

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

The American dream is about freedom.

Well, she was clever to make a living with what she loves," Louise remarked. "Isn't that what we all hope for?

ten-year, five-year and one-year goals, broken down all the way to daily task lists. He kept a catalogue of people he hoped to meet, all corporate movers and shakers or folks who could advance his career. Ruthlessly organized and efficient, he was a top corporate lawyer at a premier

Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.

Not every dancer receive a noble award Some receive punishment instead.

The rewards for hardwork is awesome but does not guarantee success.

The success of a man who dress slow like a woman is narrow.

Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism to solve any of the world's problems and its unenviable success in inventing many new ones.

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

I see only the objective, the obstacles must give way.

On peut s'arrêter quand on monte, jamais quand on descend.

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.