Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.
What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.
There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
The secret of success is sincerity.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.
Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
When you win, nothing hurts.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.