There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
I believe that football can inspire youngsters to find the path of success in life.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.
You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.
I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
An investment in housing is an investment in family stability, children's success, and the economic health of our entire state.
There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
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.
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Action is the foundational key to all success.