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“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
John D. Carmack (born 1970) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of Ion Storm" Slashdot (2002-01-02)
“Success, in life, is most easily measured by the number of days you are truly happy.”
Eric Edmeades (born 1970) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article=Success Express Journal: Volume 3, Issue 1 – November 1995
“I did very little against two lefties, Mike Caldwell and Scott McGregor, for a few years anyway. Eventually, I caught up with both of them, though. It was really Jim Palmer who stands out in this context; I had some success against him overall, but he was so good in clutch situations that I never really hurt him when the game was on the line.”
Reggie Jackson (born 1946) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acoccella and Donald Dewey, p. 117
“[Reality Therapy] is based on choice theory and focuses on improving present relationships, almost always disregards past relationships, and depends for its success on creating a good relationship between the client and the counselor.”
William Glasser (1925–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it’s an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn’t have the intelligence.”
Terry Winograd (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions (2007), ch. 7
“Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.”
Tom Peters (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success is about executing what you are doing today with unquestionable, breathtaking excellence.”
Tom Peters (born 1942) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 February 2017
“Professional success requires ... drive, initiative, commitment, involvement, and—above all—enthusiasm.”
Tom Peters (born 1942) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 June 2021
“Superb relationships are at the heart of success. Kindness is the core of superb relationships.”
Tom Peters (born 1942) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 March 2023
“Vital is the relation between earthly sorrow and eternal satisfaction. The travail to which God's saints are subjected results in the birth of nobler natures and more sanctified spirits. Pain always promotes progress, and suffering invariably ensures success.”
John McClellan Holmes (1834–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Justice is paramount to civilisational triumph because of its centrality to human dignity needs, the success of individual geo-cultural domains and the well-being of human civilisation.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads, and the strength that leads men on and up, in the great struggles of scientific pursuit, of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty and makes a pleasure of duty.”
William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Tenth Graduating Class" (1881), in Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), p. 121.
“Leaders are not necessarily popular. For soldiers, the choice between popularity and effectiveness is ultimately no choice at all. Soldiers want to win; their survival depends on it. They will accept, and even take pride in, the quirks and shortcomings of a leader if they believe he can produce success.”
Stanley A. McChrystal (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the lens of the Jock/Nerd Theory of History, the welfare state doesn’t look like a serious effort to "equalize outcomes." It looks more like a serious effort to block the "revenge of the nerds"—to keep them from using their financial success to unseat the jocks on every dimension of social status.”
Bryan Caplan (born 1971) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Redistribution: Blocking the Revenge of the Nerds? (June 21, 2007)
“It is then settled: he will investigate whether God, the fountain of all truth, the key of all mysteries, be not anywhere revealed. To seek Him with the reason alone, holds out no hope of success; the experience which he has had respecting the knowledge of man, has rendered him distrustfull as to the means of knowing God. p. 27-28”
Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847) said by 1847 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a great honour to receive such a prestigious European Transport award. I’m lucky enough to do a job in a sector I’m passionate about and this award is also a tribute to the many people at Stagecoach who have worked with me and contributed to our success over the past 30 years.”
Brian Souter (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if you could talk to it, you wouldn’t learn anything. All it would tell you is what it wanted you to hear. Or no, not even what it wants you to hear; it would generate words that in some kind of model of possible outcomes produce a result that enhances the likelihood of its reproductive success.” “I do that too,” Leo said. “From time to time.” Smiling. “Smartass,” Cassie said.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
Timothy Ferriss (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The vogue of Marxism in Great Britain and France, which began on a modest scale after the success of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, rapidly gathered momentum, particularly among intellectuals, after 1934, when it was discovered that Soviet Russia was a potential military ally against Germany.”
E. H. Carr (1892–1982) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 (1945), Chap. 5 : The Realist Critique
“Contrast Pilate with the prisoner before him, Jesus. Pilate was deeply concerned with position and power. Jesus cared for none of these things. Which was the richer in all that makes a great personality and true success in life? Contrast Nero, the Roman Emperor, and the prisoner named Paul who was beheaded in Nero's reign. Who was the real pauper, Nero or Paul?”
Halford E. Luccock (1885–1960) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dire Poverty", in Unfinished Business: Short Diversions On Religious Themes (1956)
“With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.”
Jim Stanford (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“China's success proves that socialism is not dead. It is thriving. Just imagine this: had socialism failed in China, had our communist party collapsed like the party in the Soviet Union, then global socialism would lapse into a long dark age. And communism, like Karl Marx once said, would be a haunting spectre lingering in limbo.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Xi Jinping article gives insight into China’s direction ahead of Communist Party congress (2018), South China Morning Post
“But he discovered his success later, when he began to write just like he talked.”
William McKeen (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“NEVER be surprised by your own success!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live your vision and demand your success.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you perceive yourself in a negative manner then success is next to impossible.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Plan for your success; Live your successio.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an unlimited amount of power to be found in simplicity. Keep your intent and action simple and the doors of success, happiness, and abundance will fly open for you.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When intent and action mate, the offspring is success.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live accordingly ... success isn't something you have, it's something you do.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness and success come from living in the present, not from existing in the past.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you're right, when that is the case. It is not so much a matter of being assertive, as of giving up the comfortable cocoon of apologies and guilt in which most of us have chosen to live.”
Michael Korda (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In America, success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.”
Michael Korda (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "'Greening of America' author to present lecture series" in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, Vol. 29, No. 4 (29 September 2000)
“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230
“Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in [Albert Einstein, Letter "Einstein in Singapore." Manchester Guardian, October 12, 1929]
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Passariano (26 September 1797), as quoted in Napoleon as a General (1902) by Maximilian Yorck von Wartenburg, p. 269
“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But to do for the world more than the world does for you--that is Success.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ford News (March 1926)