I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
— Helen Keller
Devotion Professional Success quotations
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.
Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Setting goals is one of the most important things you can do to guarantee your personal, professional and financial success. Goals are like a road map to your target destination. Each goal accomplished is another mile behind you on the way to where you want to be.
Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional.
Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals.
Lincoln was a professional politician.
Professional bodybuilding is a sport of total dedication.
You must dedicate every aspect of every day to the attainment of your goals if you want to succeed. It is not enough to merely go to the gym to "work out." You must put all of your concentration and focus on each rep, on each set, on each exercise to have a successful workout.
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
To double your success, triple what you spend on personal development and professional learning. The person who know the most becomes the best.

The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).
One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.
To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.
Obviously, you're known for what you do.
But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.
I had a lot of success from the start.
I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
The most successful executives are often men who have built their own companies.
Ironically their very success frequently brings to them and members of their families personal problems of an intensity rarely encountered by professional managers. And these problems make family businesses probably the most difficult to operate.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It's the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that's really important to me too.
I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females.
I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.
I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.