Success Quotations | Page 10

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.