Daily Quote's to Ponder

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you're having an experience that is positive and that you're learning from.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared.

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

Success unshared is failure.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

Food is kind of my entry card into everything. Food kind of opens the doors... because food is peace. It's good; it's positive.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

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

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

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

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

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

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

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.

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

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

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

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

If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.