Quotes About Success

you have to believe in yourself when no one else does that's what makes you a winner

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That makes you a winner right there.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

Few things are impossible if you know what needs to be done,

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Le succès est peu de choses, auprès d'une conscience en repos.

Create an environment where champions are inevitable.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality.

Scaling up is every entrepreneur's dream — and nightmare. Hypergrowth is terrifying, and it's most often success that kills great companies. This

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

modern states realized that success did not come from having the largest armies or the most favorable tariffs or the most natural resources—or even the most advanced industries. In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.

We're endangered by our own success.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

How come no one ever warned you that life would be fraught with mixed messages? That success, for example, is just another word for a lot more work? That what's called freedom is only the right to do what's allowed? And you'd derive a lot more pride from your friend's achievements than from your own?

Reflect on why you're here. What is your ultimate purpose in life? What do you want to be, do, and have? What do you want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? What possessions do you wish to acquire? What does success look like to you? Make a list of: 30 things you want to do; 30 things you want to have; and 30 things you want to be before you die.

Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor's cup. And he learned too late when the night came down, How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit. And that's worth thinking about.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.