Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 63
With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.
Ken Ono
Your wealth is where your friends are
Plautus
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Howard Schultz
I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.
Gail Devers
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
E. W. Howe
It's not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me.
Norah Jones
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.
George Washington Goethals
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
Mario Cuomo
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things
Taeyang
The key to success is often the ability to adapt
Anthony Brandt
Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.
Vera John-Steiner
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
Rudy Giuliani
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Max Weber
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.
Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.
Mao Zedong
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.
