Quotes about Success

An interesting question these psychologists tend not to ask is why the muscle metaphor is apt. In other words, why is it that early successes at self-discipline lead to more successes, whereas early lapses lead to more lapses? If self-discipline is really good for the organism, you wouldn't expect natural selection to make it so easy for a few early lapses to destroy self-discipline. Yet there's no denying that a few injections of heroin can be the end of a productive life. Why?

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

the new humanity that is created around Jesus is not a humanity that is always going to be successful and in control of things, but a humanity that can reach out its hand from the depths of chaos, to be touched by the hand of God.

Add a note This is what the love of God is like: it is free and therefore it is both all-powerful and completely vulnerable. All-powerful because it is always free to overcome, but vulnerable because it has no way of guaranteeing worldly success. The love of God belongs to a different order, not the order of power, manipulation and getting on top, which is the kind of power that pre-occupies us.