Quotes About Success

Unless you can see yourself in success, it will not happen. You need to draw a picture of that success first, in your mind. See yourself doing what it takes to be successful and enjoying the fruits of that success in your mind's eye." Andreas Simic

You are only as good as your biggest weakness. Focus on what you don't know, not on what you believe you know to achieve success.

Indeed, if one extends the "social" dimension to include the successful integration of immigrants, surely America's democracy would emerge much less defective than the alleged models of Western Europe.

Domestic Manners of the Americans was an enormous success in Great Britain because the book used every stereotype of cultural inferiority and crude materialism imputed to the New World as a way of making the Old World feel better about its own identity in relation to the United States.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Anything in life worth having is worth working for!

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.

Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

Influenced by Wesley and the revival movement, Englishman William Wilberforce led the successful movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire.

Billy Graham's success in finding a way to move beyond the outmoded racial politics and strained racial theology of the Old South would be a model for the rise of the Religious Right and its leaders, including Jerry Falwell in the 1980s and 90s.