At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
If you have people invested emotionally in the success of their team, that usually translates to strong attendance.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Much effort, much prosperity.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
I get to define for myself what being a success is.
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.
I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won't define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline.
Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.
Striving for success is healthy - but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they're able to bounce back and move forward with ease.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Fortune befriends the bold.
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