I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

— Herbert Bayard Swope

Restlessness Formulaic quotations

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Formulaic quote Average is a failing formula.
Average is a failing formula.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk.

But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.

My formula for living is quite simple.

I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are;

the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are;

the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

For the myth is the foundation of life;

it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it.

So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.