Quotations By Subject : God & Success

Quotations By Subject : God If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known. I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known. Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you. Quotations By Subject : Success I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Men are born to succeed, not fail. Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Eighty percent of success is showing up. I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.