Success quotes

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Success is something you attract by the person you become.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

Healthy striving is about striving for internal goals, and wanting to be our best selves. Perfectionism is not motivated internally. Perfectionism is about what people will think.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

Success is the product of daily habits, not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Small, smart choices + consistency + time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE.

Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Things don't just happen, they are made to happen.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

If I have done the public any service this way, 'tis due to nothing but industry and a patient thought.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances... Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

To do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I became an entrepreneur by mistake.

Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from the efforts of one person, but from the joint achievements of many.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Good is the enemy of great.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you've made the effort, do the best of what you're capable.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.

Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

I think that if I am smart in business, it's just that I'm smart about who I am. I know what I can, can't, will and won't do.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.