Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromisin... GEORGE HICKENLOOPER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave ... JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success. SHANNON L. ALDER Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success. PATRICK LENCIONI Do not just think about the destination when you start the journey or just mind the direction of you... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN The price of success is hard work, dedication and determination to the endeavour which he loves utmo... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you... TYGA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We share the benefits of success, ... We haven't got rooms and rooms of corporate people running aro... IAN LIVINGSTONE Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones. JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ARTHUR ASHE America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentiv... THOMAS PETERFFY People are the key to success or extraordinary success. AZIM PREMJI The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. HARVEY S. FIRESTONE I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You’ll never be successful if you’re afraid of the task at hand. The true meaning of success is ... AVIS JOHN The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a p... SIMON BARNES A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasur... JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU "ENTHUSIAM" is the key to #success and secret of success. LALIT BHOJWANI I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing... ALBERT SCHWEITZER Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their... DAN MILLMAN Let attitude be Your determination, go for success and not for money, because success is money JAN JANSEN EASY BRANCHES Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and la... CHARLES F. GLASSMAN The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance. SUN YAT-SEN Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking mor... RICK WARREN Preparation is good for success and it is a noble thing to prepare excellently for success, but in r... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. JOHN C. MAXWELL I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn�... EDWARD FAHEY People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the worl... BOB NEWHART Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. RICK RIORDAN Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom JULIAN PENCILLIAH Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing bot... DRAGOS BRATASANU Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris... ECKHART TOLLE While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved ev... DAN PEARCE Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doi... HERMAN CAIN Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing... HERMAN CAIN I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humi... YELAWOLF Behavioral psychology shows that a person who speaks often about the importance of success and happi... ANUJ SOMANY The only difference between success and failure is that the motivation from success goes on decreasi... ANUJ SOMANY To get happiness and success in life -always accept your reality and accept that whatever loss and f... PRIYAM PAL In life, one must gage how far one has come, where one is at, and how much more there is to go. JAIME CONTRERAS To get success and happiness in life concentrate your whole power and mind in the good work you are ... PRIYAM PAL Do enjoy on your success but do not enjoy on other's failure!!! PUSPANJALI KAR everybody thinks of success.But everyone forgets repitition of failure is success ANURAAG The key to success is in the minds of the people. How do they see the problems and the opportunities... JACK SCHULTZ Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the ... RICK RIORDAN Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh... C. JOYBELL C. Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY
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Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the... RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay , or we're alive ... RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi... RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?" You'd probably ki... RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "Y... RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals.... RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive,... RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ... RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. B... RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w... RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He... RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo... RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apoll... RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf... RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one. RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos... RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "Bu... RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude... RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons... RICK RIORDAN Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."Her... RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv... RICK RIORDAN Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor... RICK RIORDAN You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my... RICK YANCEY A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. RICK RIORDAN Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa... RICK RIORDAN I said hello to the poodle. RICK RIORDAN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." RICK RIORDAN Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<... RICK RIORDAN