The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
True balance means taking care of your health so you can enjoy your family and friends, which then leads to an environment that is conducive for experiencing success in your career.
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.
America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.
I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
When people come together and discuss their differences based on life issues that are shared, it brings about successful changes.
A SWOT analysis involves asking, "What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?
I hate the smell of success, because most of the time it smells like sweat. Maybe that’s why I’m poor, because every pore on my body is dry.
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
Happiness, success, peace, and love are experienced when we live accordingly. They are not something you have, they are something you DO.
