Quotes on Success

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful