Quotes on Success

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.