Quotes About Success

The warning behind this reality is that if we make too much of marriage, we make too little of our relationship with God. And when we make too little of our relationship with God, we undercut our source of love, which makes success in marriage less likely. Focusing on marriage too much is, ironically enough, the best way to kill it.

Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. —MAGIC JOHNSON

The desire to succeed needs to be stronger than the fear of failure.

In truth, life is based upon failures. If you don't fail, you're probably not challenging yourself enough.

Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up.

Nothing stands between us and success but our will to win.

We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.

Only climbers get to the top.

One key to achieving success in sports is learning how to focus on the task and not let negative thoughts intrude.

Your future and success depend upon many things, but mostly they depend upon you. You have the responsibility to shape your life. You are the person who pushes yourself forward or holds yourself back. The power to succeed or fail is yours alone.

Act as if you're going to have a great future? Set your goals. Do the work.

Courage. A mentally tough athlete must be willing to take a risk. That's what peak performers do. In the book Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

The most successful athletes are self-motivated. "The most important thing is to love your sport," said Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic figure-skating champion. "Never do it to please someone else—it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work needed to achieve success.

To achieve anything you want in life you must first start by getting out of your own way.

I began a new career studying the psychology of stress and the psychology of success. My mission was to learn all I could about playing under pressure. I wanted to find out why, under pressure, some athletes break through, as Hamilton did, while others break down.

Rod Carew says he has seen many baseball players blessed with God-given ability who simply didn't want to work. "They are soon gone," Carew says. "I've seen others with no ability to speak of who stayed in the big leagues for fourteen or fifteen years… . You have to want to do the work.

He had trained for years to prepare for that moment. When the spotlight came on and the music began, he let fate carry him through. The hard work was over. Now, he told himself, go out and enjoy.

Consistency separates good athletes from great ones. The best athletes win consistently because they think, act and practice consistently.

Success in life is peace of mind, the feeling of having no regrets. It comes from knowing you did your best.

The reason for this is that charisma and success go hand-in-hand and they require a certain kind of mindset and thinking. This successful mindset and thinking just doesn't mix well with complaining. Instead

Their outlook on life is not that "things happen to them". Their outlook on life is that "things happen BECAUSE of them". They are where they are in their lives at this very moment either because of the things they have done, or the things they haven't done! This is a really great attitude to have, and it is an attitude that most winners in life have.

Make sure you write out your goals each and every night, and then read them throughout the day. You will find that you automatically start to focus on these, and will be amazed how you automatically start to take more action towards achieving them. They say that success breeds success, but it also leads to being more charismatic.