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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
The majority see the obstacles, the few see the objectives, history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.