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Letter "S" » Success
«To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying»
Author: David Viscott
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
at odds, consequence, effort, enthusiasm, invite, limit, natural, odds, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, The Face, The Face of, unfriendly
«To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.»
«To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!»
«To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.»
«To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
confidence, ignorance, succeed
«To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.»
Author: Michael Jordan
(Basketball Player)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
high level, isolate, isolates, isolating, or else, reachable, selfish, unselfish
«To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Beginning,
Choice,
Men,
Success,
Youth
| Keywords:
competence, elements, honorable, taint, tainted, Taints, The Young Man, young man
«To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Generosity,
Kindness,
Life,
Success
| Keywords:
affection, All My Children, and the, better, better known, Better Than Life, breathed, breathe in, breathe out, breathing in, breathing out, children, easier, even, Good Living, has, intelligent, intelligent life, in some respects, in that respect, know, laugh, Laugh In, leave, leave out, left most, lived, much, often, One Life to Live, One World, on leave, other places, people, place, respect, succeeded, take leave, the world, this, This Is, This is the Place, win, win over, world
«To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy -this is success!»
«To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.»
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