Quotes About Success

learning how to ride your bike? Well, persistence and sheer repetition, certainly. You were going to stick with it no matter how long it took! It also helped that you were enthusiastic about what you set out to achieve—that you could hardly wait to reach your goal. And finally, let's not underestimate the impact of positive encouragement. You always knew your parents were in your corner, supporting you, rooting for your success.

If you're positive and enthusiastic, people will want to spend time with you. — Jeff Keller And all of these great things happened because I tapped into Stu Kamen's network … and then the Think & Grow Rich newsletter's network … and then Jim Donovan's network.

They can because they think they can. — Virgil

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. — Ralph Charell

Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back? — W. Clement Stone

The people who always talk about a lack of money generally don't accumulate much of it. — Jeff Keller

No pressure, no diamonds. — Mary Case

Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. — NAPOLEON HILL

After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?' I know EXACTLY where I will be in fifteen years: in my pool, at my mansion, counting my money. But there weren't any check boxes for THAT option.

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

Consider failure as just a comma in the middle of a sentence that tells the story of your life.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens to them.

Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.

Everything is always in motion. Every day, every moment, your life path is either curving upward, or curving downward. Growing up we heard five times as many nos as yeses. Life has a downward pull. People on the success curve live in responsibility. People on the failure curve live in blame. People on the success curve are pulled by the future. People on the failure curve are pulled by the past. No matter where you are, at any moment you can choose to step onto the success curve.

The predominant state of mind displayed by those people on the failure curve is blame. The predominant state of mind displayed by those people on the success curve is responsibility.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Compensation

Remember: success does not lead to happiness—it's the other way around.

If you've ever been told, "You'll get it if you just want it bad enough," I'm here to let you off the hook: it simply isn't true.

it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succeeding as it is to slip into the habit of failing.

two critical areas of life, everyday happiness and long-term impact,