Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we're not talking about them.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.

Ultimately, the success of America's market economy depends on trust. This includes trust between buyers and sellers, between lenders and borrowers, and between investors and the companies in which they invest.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

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.

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.