Quotes About Success

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Your attachments are the source of all your problems. The need to be right, to possess someone or something, to win at all costs, to be viewed by others as superior—these are all attachments. The open mind resists these attachments and consequently experiences inner peace and success. To release attachments, you have to make a shift in how you

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; it's that they're too low and you do.

This is all wrapped up in a quote that I have cited many times, which was written back in the 19th century by one of the most influential spiritual masters ever to grace my path. His name is Henry David Thoreau, and his words have always rung sharply in my consciousness: "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.

Simply have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let it all come and go as it will. Enjoy it all, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any thing, any place, and particularly, any person.

Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't … you aren't.

Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Take on difficulties while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.

For decades now I've encouraged everyone to believe that making a good living at what you love is a possibility. If you stay on purpose and are committed to following your bliss, the universal one mind will cooperate with you in bringing this to fruition. The right people will show up, the obstacles will be swept away, the necessary circumstances will materialize, and guidance will be there.

make a commitment to work toward your greatness.

When you feel peaceful and successful, you want to extend and export that peace and love.

enjoy each step along the way and keep in mind that every goal is possible from here. Just do one thing, one day at a time.

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.

There may, however, be occasions when you will fail in some given task according to your own standards. The important thing here is not to equate the act with your own self-worth. Not to succeed in a particular endeavor is not to fail as a person. It is simply not being successful with that particular trial at that particular present moment.

You'll be happily surprised by how nice it feels to simply change your belief that you're only successful if you're making money.

I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.

De la duda ha salido el temor a tu grandeza, el temor a la desaprobación, al fracaso, a la intimidad e incluso al éxito.

Living by Being I encourage you to change your belief that effort and striving are necessary tools for success. In verse 47, Lao-tzu suggests that these are ways of being that keep you from experiencing the harmony and attaining the completion that's offered by the Tao. Living by being instead of trying is a different viewpoint; as Lao-tzu states, you can see and accomplish more by not looking out the window.

changing the way you prioritize your life ensures a fruitful one.

They do not equate being successful in any enterprise with being successful as a human being. Since their self-worth comes from within, any external event can be viewed objectively as simply effective or ineffective. They know that failing is merely somebody else's editorial opinion and not to be feared since it cannot affect self-worth. Thus, they will try anything, participate just because it's fun, and never fear having to explain themselves.

Thoreau's that indicates if you follow your dreams, "You will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.