Swift Success Quotes & Sayings

Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time. — Solomon

Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion. — Tony Dovale

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go. — Taylor Swift

Success Requires a Mindset that sparks and sustains focused SWIFT ACTION. — Tony Dovale

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes. — Tony Dovale

The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better. — Dalai Lama

It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE — Tony Dovale

High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication — Tony Dovale

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift

As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment. — Taylor Swift

REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause — Tony Dovale

The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world. — Tony Dovale

This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account' should be tattooed on the left wrist of every grad student in the anglophone world. — David Foster Wallace

REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF! — Tony Dovale

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life! — Tony Dovale

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still. — Robert Ludlum

Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send to sweethearts and loved ones, or simply ways of remembering, of grasping a moment in a swift changing and uncertain world. — Michael Crichton

Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context. — Tony Dovale

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it. — Taylor Swift

Some lives are like steps and stairs, every period an achievement built on a previous success. Other lives hum with the arc of the swift spear. Only ever one thing, that dedicated life, from start to finish, but how magnificently concentrated its journey. The trajectory seems so true as to be proof of predestination. Still other lives are more like the progress of a child scrabbling over boulders at a lakeside - now up, now down, always the destination blocked from view. Now a wrenched ankle, now a spilled sandwich, now a fishhook in the face. — Gregory Maguire

To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily. — Tony Dovale

Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success. — Tony Dovale

The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential. — Tony Dovale

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything. — Taylor Swift

The world doesn't owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you. — Taylor Swift

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith ... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal. — Alice Foote MacDougall

Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity. — Tony Dovale

Independent and stubborn natures, such as are particularly common among men of learning, do not readily bow to another's will and for the most part only accept his leadership grudgingly. But when Lorentz is in the presidential chair, an atmosphere of happy cooperation is invariably created, however much those present may differ in their aims and habits of thought. The secret of this success lies not only in his swift comprehension of people and things and his marvelous command of language, but above all in this, that one feels that his whole heart is in the business at hand, and that when he is at work, he has room for nothing else in his mind. Nothing disarms the recalcitrant so much as this. — Albert Einstein

Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Here it is in modern English:
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. — George Orwell

If it is to BE.. it's up to ME. Time for SWIFT ACTION! id your best mindset reset. — Tony Dovale

Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility — Tony Dovale

Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility, — Tony Dovale

Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul. — Henry Van Dyke

Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind. — Tony Dovale

Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down. — Taylor Swift

Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace. — Tony Dovale

Fear based mindsets see challenges as problems, that are dangerous and impossible. Courageous Mindsets see problems as challenges, that are possible and exciting. — Tony Dovale

To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE. — Tony Dovale

People who have wellbeing and feel fulfilled, need far less than people who feel unfulfilled, who always seem to need more. By Rethinking Your Mindset you can create SWIFT sustainable success. — Tony Dovale

Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results. — Tony Dovale

If it is to BE today, it's totally UP TO me NOW. Time for SWIFT Actions, with Fierce Focus, on CLEAR Goals. Time for a Mindset Reset? — Tony Dovale

A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal. — Tony Dovale