Quotes on Success

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Love is the absence of judgment.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.