Quotes About Success

to improve the clarity of what you want to achieve or what your goals are exactly you should write them down. This will also improve your chances of success.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life.

Triumph in the face of adversity

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism ' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

How does one get famous?" the Joxter asked. "Oh, just by doing something that nobody else has been able to do.

There ought to be a big fuss when people move up in the world.

It's like he's a puppy that's finally pooped outside,

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Once you acquire the capacity to generate the power to make the impossible happen, it cannot be taken away from you. In fact, it increases over time. That is why executives and leaders must re-invent themselves before they can re-invent an organization, institution, or country effectively. Without the capacity to generate the power to make the impossible happen, how can they possibly succeed?

Until you have re-invented yourself to be personally free from the constraints and limitations of your own past (including your own past success), you will not have the power to deal effectively with what is at the source of resistance to change

A Winning Strategy is a lifelong, unconscious formula for achieving success. You did not design this Winning Strategy, it designed you. As a human being and as a leader, it is the source of your success and at the same time the source of your limitations. It defines your reality, your way of being, and your way of thinking. This, in turn, focuses your attention and shapes your actions, thereby determining what's possible and not possible for you as a leader.

Every human being has his or her own Winning Strategy—a Strategy for winning the games of life, for "making it" in life—or even for surviving in life.