Incremental change is better than ambitious failure…success feeds on itself.
– Tal Ben-Shahar
Tag Archives: Achievement
If you…
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
– Andrew Carnegie
Successful…
Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal.
– Jonathan Mills
We…
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
– Winston S. Churchill
Persistence…
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.
– Gever Tulley
Do not…
Do not judge me by my success; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
– Nelson Mandela
Hold yourself…
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Master…
Master yourself and you master your environment. Such is the nature of wisdom.
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Don’t aim…
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
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There are…
There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed.
Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn’t require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.
– Michael Josephson
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