Quotes on Success

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

I never waste time looking back.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.