“Seeing other people succeed should make you even more hungry for the hunt. Set their success as the bar and then pass it.”— Eric Thomas, twitter.com
“Game of Thrones saw its original print run remaindered. Outlander once came with a money back guarantee on its cover. Marvel Comics almost went bankrupt in 1996. No setback is permanent. No failure is absolute. It is never too late to create or succeed.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“A habit to divorce yourself from is trying to explain away the success of someone whose work you don’t like. You’re contributing to your own unhappiness by focusing on them.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“There is a systematic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear … that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“If a people or a nation can reach their objectives by disciplined and peaceful means, it would be a most honourable and admirable achievement.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I only f*ck with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don't want any 'friends' who fall silent during my success.”— Cardi B, twitter.com
“Your success grows in direct proportion to your courage to use your gifts to serve the world.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”— Jim Henson, amazon.com
“It is not the critic who counts....The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid sou…”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikisource.org
“It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikisource.org
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodoreroosevelt.org
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“There are many qualities which we need in order to gain success, but the three above all—for the lack of which no brilliancy and no genius can atone—are Courage, Honesty and Common Sense.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.”— Bill Russell, sportsfeelgoodstories.com
“When a team is functioning on all cylinders, listening is an essential component of success. A team, whether it’s a sports team, a business, or a family, cannot function effectively unless you and everyone else are prepared to drop the filters that get in the way of effective listening.”— Bill Russell, csmonitor.com
“That's the ultimate test of how you have lived your life. The trouble with love is that you can't buy it….The only way to get love is to be lovable….The more you give love away, the more you get.”— Warren Buffett, businessinsider.com
“I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”— Warren Buffett, businessinsider.com
“Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”— Warren Buffett, businessinsider.com