Quotes on Success

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

The rules of engagement around building a brand have changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years. Where companies at one time could spread their message through traditional marketing, consumers now seek an enduring emotional connection with the companies they patronize. The foundation of that connection is the most important characteristic of building a world-class brand: trust. Trust with your people and trust with your customers.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Part of the success of Girls Who Code is that I am a hustler. When people ask what my biggest strength is, it's that I'm shameless. I will ask people for help even when I don't know them.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.