Daily Quote's to Ponder

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

I''m happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that''s what''s gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that''s what I''m most proud of.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn''t have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Successful people breed success.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Talent doesn''t always equal success.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don''t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

I know where I''m going and I know the truth, and I don''t have to be what you want me to be. I''m free to be what I want.

There''s no success story. Everybody''s got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent''s pressure, and the temporary failures.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

I''ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It''s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Don''t think, just do.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was ''Assassin''s Creed'', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I''m thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it''s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I''m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

The road to success is always under construction.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Even if you fall on your face, you''re still moving forward.

I often say that it''s only people who have their skin in the business who''ll work towards its success.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I''m a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I''m eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don''t go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It''s also, I think, the key to my success.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I don''t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Success isn''t always about greatness. It''s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

Many of life''s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it''s family or friends or co-workers, I think it''s the most important thing. Whether you have success or don''t have it, whether you''re a good person is all that matters.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I''ve had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Personally, I don''t like the term ''success.'' It''s too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It''s usually someone else''s definition, not yours.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to ''carry it off.''

Success doesn''t mean that you are healthy, success doesn''t mean that you''re happy, success doesn''t mean that you''re rested. Success really doesn''t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

Success is the sum of details.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

You can''t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

People fall forward to success.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I''ve been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don''t bring happiness, ultimately.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I''m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren''t amending; they''re shifting.

If you want to achieve things in life, you''ve just got to do them, and if you''re talented and smart, you''ll succeed.

Your talent is God''s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Since Star Wars, that film''s success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Don''t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

I''m not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don''t need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn''t, there''s a lesson to be learnt.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Don''t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn''t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

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 our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It''s authentic. It''s not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

It''s kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

I look at where I''m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

It''s hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

If you want to conquer fear, don''t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren''t proud of what you''re doing, why should anybody else be?

I passionately believe that''s it''s not just what you say that counts, it''s also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Good planning is important. I''ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you''re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you''re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. ''Stiff'' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that''s what has made it a success, I think.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

There''s nothing like success.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It''s never your fault. But it''s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you''re the one who has got to change.