Quotes on Success

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

One life is worth no more or less than any other

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.