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Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.
Sep 10, 2025
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
To be successful you have to deal with CRAP. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
First master the fundamentals.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.