One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than...
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
Don't confuse efforts with results...
Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed
At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This...
Elusive success is not the same as failure.
You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.
The best learners are the best earners.
Nobody is going to hand you success. You have to hand yourself to success.
Pride would have destroyed me. But I was able to cheat on pride. If I could cheat on pride, then I could cheat on success too. Both were never meant to be good lovers. Jovita Efehi Obadolagonyi
If you do everything, you'll win
Success comes in cans, not cannots.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now...
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the...
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness...
In ten years, you'll be on a stamp /where anyone at all can lick you.
Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.
People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain
Everything you desire is always justoutside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would alreadypossess it, would you not?
Success would bea fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it witha single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,success has several layers to its pallet....
But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.