Quotes About Success

Drunk with success and sick with ambition, such empires expand to grotesque proportions and meet a ruin that is total. This

What is bloated beyond its proportions inevitably collapses. The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion.

So it is important to judge over time whether a person is rational or irrational. Can they sustain success and hit upon several good strategies? Can they adjust and learn from failures?

the personality we project to the world plays a substantial role in our success and in our ascension to mastery.

Daily Law: Concentrate on maintaining a high sense of purpose, and the success will flow to you naturally. The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness

The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power.

The period after the inauguration became known as the "Hundred Days," and its success in altering the country's mood partly stemmed from Roosevelt's clever pacing and use of dramatic contrast.

I have always believed," he later wrote, "that when a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties.

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timings, the contributions of others, the teachers who helped us along the way, the whims of the public in need of something new. Our tendency is to forget all of this and imagine that any success stems from our superior self.

They forget the favors they have received and imagine they have earned their success by their own merits.

The key to success in any field is first developing skills in various areas, which you can later combine in unique and creative ways.

Create a Ladder of Descending Goals

Robert Greene

Periodically return to your original vision and imagine the immense satisfaction you will have when it comes to fruition.

they are able to direct their focus and their love into their work, becoming great artists, creators, and inventors. Because their outward focus on the work is more intense, they tend to be successful in their ventures, which gives them the necessary attention and validation.

Daily Law: Remember that what you are after is a series of practical results and accomplishments, not a list of unrealized dreams and aborted projects. Working with smaller, embedded goals will keep you moving in such a direction. The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness

lo que separa a quienes dominan un campo de los muchos que sencillamente ejercen un empleo es una cualidad emocional. El nivel de nuestro deseo, paciencia, persistencia y seguridad termina por desempeñar en el éxito un papel mucho más importante que la posesión de facultades mentales extraordinarias. Si nos sentimos motivados y vigorizados podemos vencer casi todo.

The worst fate in the world for a man who yearns fame, glory, and, of course, power is to be ignored.

Nosso nível de desejo, paciência, persistência e confiança acaba contribuindo muito mais para o sucesso que a capacidade de raciocínio. A motivação e a energia podem superar quase tudo. A monotonia e a inconstância desconectam a mente e nos tornam cada vez mais passivos.

In the process leading to this ultimate form of power, we can identify three distinct phases or levels. The first is the Apprenticeship; the second is the Creative-Active; the third, Mastery.

the source of their success (the various power players in history) could almost always be traced to one single skill or unique quality that separated them form the others.

Two Kinds of Failure A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, THE GAY SCIENCE

Poor is the apprentice who does not surpass his master

In fact, it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt. You will fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch. When you do inevitably fail, it will confuse and demoralize you past the point of learning.