Quotes about Success

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments the Lord has given us, and to give us opportunities to inspire and bear testimony in a horizontal way.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

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.