Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.
Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies.
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
There is no substitute for victory.
The success of the film is down to the crew.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.
I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.
Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.