Fortune befriends the bold.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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.
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
It’s about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don’t matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn’t matter.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company’s success framework.
Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.
I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
I’m not a big fan of fame; I’m a big fan of success.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.
Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I’ve made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There’s nothing that I would re-do. I’ve always done what I felt was right.
We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
Success is best when it’s shared.
Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.
Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.
I don’t believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn’t help me.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.
Success unshared is failure.
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.
Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
My Chinese name is Man Shing which means ‘ten thousand success.’ It’s a name that’s sure to set me up for failure.
There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Success is survival.
Success doesn’t find you when you’re alone in your house.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I’ve really learned to appreciate that.
I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.
I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease.
What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
Remember, it isn’t the dreamers who have good lives – it’s the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
