Quotes About Success

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Playing it safe never got anyone to the summit

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

THE SECOND MAJOR THEME running through the Tea Party movement is the call for personal responsibility. The founding documents built institutions that allowed for individuals to chase their dreams and be responsible for their own successes and failures. Tea Partiers value equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. For us, it is all about the rights of the individual over the collective.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn't enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn't, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else's opinion.

That'll do, Pig. That'll do. -Farmer Hogget

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy.

That'll do, pig, that'll do.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Don't think you are a great person just because you are a star in a given sport and win all the time because the next time, you may lose—and the time after that.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

You don't win championships by being a bunch of individual all-stars," I told them. "You do it by being a team—doing all the intangibles and playing together and really trying to help one another in chasing your goals.

No matter what Mike Krzyzewski is making at Duke, it is not enough. He's underpaid! He is absolutely worth every penny he is getting. He is like a CEO of a major corporation when you think about his value to Duke University.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

It's show business. No show, no business.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.

The form of the crucified disarms all thinking aimed at success, for it is a denial of judgment. Neither the triumph of the successful, nor bitter hatred of the successful by those who fail, can finally cope with the world. Jesus is certainly no advocate for the successful in history, but neither does he lead the revolt of the failures [gescheiterte Existenzen][58.] against the successful.

God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.