Quotes on Success

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

Man is not interesting without some imperfection

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.