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The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.
Sep 10, 2025
The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
You can go as far as your mind lets you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.