If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“Everything is in a constant state of change, and the wise investor recognizes that success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.”
— Sir John Templeton
“If you want to succeed in investments, start early and try hard and keep doing it. All success comes that way, by and large.”
Where the most eloquent exhortation fails, the simple story of an event succeeds; the lives of men are transformed by a piece of news.
—J. Gresham Machen
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
—Charles Dickens
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
—Voltaire
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
—Voltaire
Action is the foundational key to all success.
—Pablo Picasso
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
—Henry Ford
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
—Henry Ford
If you understand that your central task in life is love, then when you interact with someone you won’t think about how he might be useful to you, but rather how you might be useful to him. Just do this and you’ll succeed in everything far more than if you worry about yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
—Sigmund Freud
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.
—Henry Ford
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
—Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
—Henry Ford
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Success is 99% failure.
—Henry Ford
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
—Thomas Edison
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
—Henry Ford
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
—Thomas Edison
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
—George Washington
There is no more visible sign of a person’s success on the path of goodness than when he restrains his anger and refuses to repay an unkind word with an unkind word, or refuses to strike back at a person who’s offended him.
—Leo Tolstoy