Quotes About Success

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Guilt feelings can cause people to experience severe depression after they have been successful in some work or personal project. Chronic bad luck accidents or impoverished social relations can stem from self-imposed guilt.

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

Successful people, however, believe there is always a link between what they have done and how far they have come—even when no link exists. It's delusional, but it is also empowering.

The only natural law I've witnessed in three decades of observing successful people's efforts to become more successful is this: People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, "I am successful. I behave this way. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way!" The challenge is to make them see that sometimes they are successful in spite of this behavior.

Our quest for a successful outcome may end up doing more harm than good to our organizations, our families, and ourselves.

Successful people never drink from a glass that's half empty.

Getting better is its own reward. If we do that, we can never feel cheated.

But there's a difference between being an achiever and a leader. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats. They're not afraid of uncertainty or ambiguity. They embrace it. They want to take greater risks and achieve greater returns. Given the choice, they will always bet on themselves.

this "we will succeed" attitude leads to staff burnout, high turnover, and a weaker team than the one you started with.

We treat effort as a second-class citizen. It's the condolence message we send ourselves when we fail. We say, "I gave it my best shot," or "I get an A for effort." But after a few days, quantifying effort rather than outcome reveals patterns that we'd otherwise miss.

The danger with this, of course, is that, unchecked, this "we will succeed" attitude leads to staff burnout, high turnover, and a weaker team than the one you started with. His biggest challenge as a leader was avoiding overcommitment.

If you're born on third base, you shouldn't think you hit a triple.

It's an interesting equation: Less me. More them. Equals success.

One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, "I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must be achieving results because I behave this way.

Marshall Goldsmith

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.

Overcommitment can be as serious an obstacle to change as believing that you don't need fixing or that your flaws are part of the reason you're successful.

But the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.