how to be successful quotes

1. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

-- Winston S. Churchill

2. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

-- Herman Melville

3. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

-- Colin R. Davis

4. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-- Henry David Thoreau

5. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

-- Chris Grosser

6. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

--John D. Rockefeller

7. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

-- Thomas Jefferson

8. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

-- Ray Goforth

9. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

-- Jim Rohn

10. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

-- Albert Einstein

11. "Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

-- Winston Churchill

12. "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."

-- Tony Hsieh

13. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

-- Winston Churchill

14. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

-- G. K. Chesterton

15. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."

-- Thomas J. Watson

16. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

17. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do."

-- Anonymous

18. "Do one thing every day that scares you."

-- Anonymous

19. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

-- Michael John Bobak

20. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

-- Tony Robbins

21. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

-- Robert Kiyosaki

22. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

-- Steve Jobs

23. "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

-- Barack Obama

24. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

25. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

-- Helen Keller

26. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

-- Walt Disney

27. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

-- Bruce Lee

28. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

-- Colin Powell

29. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

-- Conrad Hilton

30. "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

-- Jim Rohn

31. "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--It is: Try to please everybody."

-- Herbert Bayard Swope

32. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

-- Albert Schweitzer

33. "Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do."

-- Unknown

34. "Fall seven times and stand up eight."

-- Japanese Proverb

1. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." Michael John Bobak
2. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." Philippos
3. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." Mark Twain
4. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
5. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." Earl Nightingale
6. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon
7. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." Bill Cosby
8. "Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending." Carl Bard
9. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." Martha Stewart
10. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
11. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." Mark Caine
12. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
13. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." BruceLee
14. "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." Jimmy Spithill
15. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down." Charles F. Kettering
16. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." Gurbaksh Chahal
17. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs
18. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" T. Harv Eker
19. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." Jim Rohn
20. "The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." Napoleon Hill
21. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." Jane Smiley
22. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." George Bernard Shaw
23. "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman
24. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun
25. "Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." Francis Chan
26. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn
27. "Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan." Larry Winget
28. "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gafka
29. "Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." Baltasar
30. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret Thatcher
31. "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." Stephen Covey
32. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." G. K. Chesterton
33. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
34. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." Robert Hughes
35. "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" Robert Schuller
36. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
37. "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell
38. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." Martha Stewart
39. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
40. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." Mark Caine
41. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
42. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." BruceLee