Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Success is often built on the shoulders of failure – from which new configurations emerge.
Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The road to success runs uphill.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
The success of the film is down to the crew.
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.
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
Failure is a better teacher than success. I am what I am today because of failures and successes.
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Success doesn’t make you happy.
We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I’ve been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one’s ability and likelihood for success.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.
Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
No matter how much success you’re having, you can’t continue working together if you can’t communicate.
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn’t achieved without it.
It’s so funny, this thing of ‘overnight success.’ I’ve been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure – who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
