You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.
Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 121
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.
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.
Yanni
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.
Larry Ellison
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
It's not about success, it's about progress.
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
William McKeen
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
Connie Sellecca
Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.
Margaret Beckett
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way
Kyle Kinane
Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
When I set a goal, I work hard to achieve it.
Lisa Leslie
Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.
David Brooks
