Quotes About Success

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.