Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
Interpretation
Balancing careful judgment with strong ambition and enthusiasm can lead to achieving great success.
This quote by Dale Carnegie suggests that to achieve success, one must not only be ambitious but also exercise good judgment while maintaining high energy levels. The recipe for success involves a thoughtful approach combined with a passionate drive, indicating that merely having one without the other may not yield the best results.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech to inspire a group of business professionals.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world
"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5β² 11". So I just picked baseball."
You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
I know I didn't deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I've got to do whatever I can to honor him.
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