Winning Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 23

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can\'t lose.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

Thomas A. Edison

When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.

Maureen Howard

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

Joe Elliott

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You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

Courteney Cox

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Diane Arbus

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

Ralph Fiennes

Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can\'t always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

Mark McCumber

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Sterling W Sill

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

Jacques Barzun

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

Donald Keough

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

Gloria Gaynor

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Charles Spurgeon

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Esperanza Spalding

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Anne Sweeney

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Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

Jan Marsh

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

Martin Scorsese