Daily Quote's to Ponder

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn''t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

God didn''t bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

If you work just for money, you''ll never make it, but if you love what you''re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day''s insolence.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel''s will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don''t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

I can''t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn''t give this game of life everything he''s got.

I don''t think there''s ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, ''Yes, I''ve made a success of this career path.'' You never feel like you''ve done your best work. You always think you could be better.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

As the world''s sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation''s ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation''s workforce.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people''s lives.

It''s ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn''t even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Well, I think that there''s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you''re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

You can''t expect to hit the jackpot if you don''t put a few nickels in the machine.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early ''60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn''t even think of myself as a singer.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

I''m a motivational speaker.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

It''s not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn''t apply. But they do. It''s still life on life''s terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There''s something that has always been difficult about that for me.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he''s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Do whatever you do intensely.

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one''s children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

If you don''t design your own life plan, chances are you''ll fall into someone else''s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don''t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ''bit'' always switched on.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ''get rich'' in business by being a conformist.

Also, it''s risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

There''s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Winning isn''t everything, it''s the only thing.

Success is like a high-rise building I''m on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I''m looking to make it to the penthouse.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

My first book was called, ''Mountain, Get Out of My Way,'' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people''s lives and trying to be motivational.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child''s success is the positive involvement of parents.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

It''s always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

It''s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

I was sure I''d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn''t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ''The Big Trail'' had been a success and launched me as a star.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

I''ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You''re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that''s about so you can represent it.

If you don''t ask, you don''t get.

We''ve stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven''t let the success thing go to our head.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.