Powerful Success Quotes from the Best Books
A success is anyone who is pursuing deliberately a predetermined goal, because that’s what he or she decided to do...deliberately.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.
All great achievement begins with your deciding what it is you really want and then dedicating yourself wholeheartedly to attaining it.
All success begins with definiteness of purpose.
All who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive.
Attempting to succeed through more of the same, being resolute, and relying on committed effort, can blind you to better pathways. Get ruthless about trying something different.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
Failure is just another opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Failure is never final. Failure is simply a way of learning the lessons you need to succeed.
I have not failed at all. I have successfully identified 5,000 ways that will not work. That just puts me 5,000 ways closer to the way that will.
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
If there is an effect in your life that you do not enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.
If there is an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and repeat the causes.
If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money.
If you do high-quality work and achieve the results that your company needs to grow and prosper, you'll be successful and happy in your career.
If you produce quality products or services that customers want and need and are willing to pay for, and then promote them vigorously, you'll be successful in selling them. If you don't, you won't.
If you sow the right causes, you reap the desired effects.
If you want to be successful and happy, just make sure that your every thought and action are taking you in that direction.
In other to succeed, you must know three things: 1) What to eliminate; 2) What to preserve; and, 3) When to say no, for developing the power to say no gives us the capacity to say yes.
It is impossible to succeed without failing. Failure is a prerequisite for success.
It is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.
Keep looking for the good. Great successes are almost always preceded by many failures. It's the lessons learned from the failures that make the ultimate successes possible.
Most people don't succeed because they are too afraid to even try. They don't begin due to the fear of failure.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
No one is truly a success in life until he or she has learned how to serve.
Nobody expects you to get it right the first time, or even the second time.
Over-indulgence in eating, strong drink, and sexual activities is fatal to success.
People who are on the success track think highly of themselves and have trained their minds to choose positive, effective ideas.
See yourself where you want to be and then be there. Don't be in the past. Be there! Act like the person you want to become.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Success begins the moment we understand that life is about beginning. Start where you are. You can only start with what you have, not what you don't have.
Success begins with a fellow’s will—it’s all in the state of mind.
Success begins with you exercising your power of choice to take systematic, purposeful control over the thoughts you hold in your conscious mind.
Success comes to those who become success conscious.
Success is a numbers game. There is a direct relationship between the number of things you attempt and your probability of ultimately succeeding.
Success really is, simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other person is going to do.
Successful people believe in themselves.
Successful people have developed an inner confidence that is expressed openly in their behavior.
Successful people have power with people. They have character.
Successful people learn from experience and have drive from within.
Temporary defeat is not permanent failure. It may only mean that your plans have not been sound. Build other plans. Start all over again.
The failures see the hole in the donut but do not see the donut around the hole. The successes see the hole also, but they see the donut around the hole.
The first law of success...is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
The greatest achievement was, at first and for a time, but a dream.
The greatest single enemy of your potential for greater success and achievement is your comfort zone, your tendency to get stuck in a rut and then to resist all change, even positive change, that would force you out of it.
The impossible is possible.
The more successful a person is, the less he is inclined to express wild unjustified opinions about anything.
The most successful and happy men and women are those who make other people feel good about themselves when they are with them.
The secret of success is to start from the scratch and keep on scratching.
The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their other selves.
The two most important ingredient for a successful life are a goal and persistence.
The way to the top is neither swift nor easy.
We can achieve nothing important until we have enthusiasm.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild these plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
You will get knocked down; it is how fast you get up that makes all the difference.
Your acres of diamonds probably lie right under your own feet. But they are usually disguised as hard work.
Your best will always arise when you tap into the best gifts inside you.
Your success doesn't come from what you do. It's how you do it.
Your success has less to do with speed and more to do with timing and direction. The key is doing the right thing at the right time.
Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.
Your success will be measured by your willingness to keep on trying.
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