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Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani
The pleasure and the pain, experienced in the life on earth, the success or failure, which attend it, the attainments and obstacles, with which it is strewed, the friends and foes, which make their appearance in it, are all deter-mined by the Karma of past lives. Karmic deter-mination is popularly designated as fate. Fate however is not some foreign and oppressive principle. Fate is man's own creation pursuing him from past lives: and just as it has been shaped by past Karma, it can also be modified, remoulded and even undone, through Karma in the present life.
Appearance | Fate | Life | Life | Past | Pleasure | Present | Success | Fate | Friends |
Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani
Solitude is one of the essential conditions of at-taining success in meditation.
Success |
If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit.
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Innovation | Success |
Michael Jordan, fully Michael Jeffrey Jordon, aka MJ, Air Jordan and His Airness
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Enthusiasm | Play | Practice | Will |
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say,
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
Mike Ditka, fully Michael Keller Ditka, Jr., aka "Iron" Mike Ditka
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
Excellence | Money | Success | Excellence |
Mike Ditka, fully Michael Keller Ditka, Jr., aka "Iron" Mike Ditka
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Discipline | Money | Power | Success |
Milarepa, fully Jetsun Milarepa NULL
It is difficult to meet success in the effort to insure one's own spiritual welfare, even without seeking to benefit others. If you seek another's spiritual welfare before attaining your own, it would be like a helplessly drowning man trying to save another man in the same predicament. Therefore, one should not be too anxious and hasty in setting out to save others before one has, oneself, realized Truth in Its fullness. That would be like the blind leading the blind. As long as the sky endures, there will be no dearth of sentient beings for you to serve, and your opportunity for such service will come. Till it does, I exhort each one of you to keep but one resolve: namely, to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all living creatures.
Effort | Man | Opportunity | Service | Success | Truth | Will |
Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!
Charles De Montesquieu, formally Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.
Nancy Astor, fully Lady Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
In a year when it felt at times as if we had nothing in common anymore, we were united in this hope: that our men and women at arms might soon come safely home, because their job was done. They are the bright, sharp instrument of a blunt policy, and success or failure in a war unlike any in history ultimately rests with them.
Failure | History | Men | Nothing | Success | War | Failure |