success

"Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it."

"The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change."

"Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes."

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."

"Don`t allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny."

"Never run from the enemy, tackle them"

"Lessen the odds are stacked against you, Use Cosmic Ordering."

"My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know."

"For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard."

"Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution."

"If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach."

"Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person."

"I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful."

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

"Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success."

"People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail."

"The victor belongs to the spoils."

"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."

"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."

"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes."