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My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
Sep 10, 2025
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.
People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality. There are very few bona fide overnight success stories. It just doesn't work that way. Success appears to happen overnight because we all see stories in newspapers and on TV about previously unknown people who have suddenly become famous. But consider a sequoia tree that has been growing for several hundred years. Just because a television crew one day decides to do a story about that tree doesn't mean it didn't exist before.
Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had it easy...
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their diversity numbers—and a pledge to improve these—are the most recent victories. The Boys Club is under fire and is trying to reform itself. Women are achieving success and helping each other. Advancing technologies are leveling the playing field. Women are in the catbird seat for the new era of exponential innovation. This is the time to inspire and motivate—and that is what Innovating Women will surely do.
There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.
I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.
If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
If you think you can - you can!
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
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.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.
You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
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.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?