Quotes Tagged "success"

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

Make plans for your new goals. And press towards achieving the goals with all your strength.

Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Friendship is not by force but by choice. You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.