Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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