Collection Of My Favorite Success Quotations

SUCCESS QUOTATION

1. Albert Einstein defined insanity as “Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results”.

2. Warren Buffett says the following about diversification “Diversification is protection against ignorance; it makes very little sense if you know what you are doing”.

3. Donald Trump says, “People, who are capable of thinking for themselves, will rarely be part of any herd”. The best way to have an edge is to live on one.

4. “Intelligence is the ability to solve problems” by Robert T. Kiyosaki.

5. “There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise” by Donald Trump.

6. Alexander Graham Bell’s statement: “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. If you can control your energy then you stand a good chance of creating and controlling your own wealth”.

7. Don’t be shortsighted, be a global-thinker.

8. You can’t learn to swim from a textbook. Same is true for Business; you can’t learn business from textbook or business school. Nothing compares with the frontline experience.

9. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us” by Emerson.

10. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” by Robert Browning.

11. If your reality begins with dreams, your dreams will become your reality.

12. Giving up is always an easy option.

13. Birds of a feather flock together.

14. Back to the script idea, I heard someone say once that we are all in charge of writing our own movie, and that movie is our life. Imagine yourself writing scenes – what kind would you want to have? Somehow, I don’t think we’d choose drudgery, boredom or poverty. It’s not only no fun to write, it’s boring and depressing to watch. Write the script, likewise your favorite character from your favorite movie. Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.

15. In The War of Art, Pressfield says, “Many people think amateurs do not play for money, but they play for the love of the game. In reality, the reason amateurs are amateurs is because they do not love the game enough.”

16. Donald said, “If something is going to affect your life, it’s best to know as much as you can about it”.

17. Creativity and control makes you rich.

18. Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst.

19. The biggest risk we all face is not moving forward with that we’ve learned.

20. Abraham Lincoln says, “I don’t think much of a man, who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

21. “Know everything you can about what you’re doing”, says Fred Trump.

22. True success is in obeying God, says Ali A. Dogar

23. Golf legend Gary Player’s saying “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

24. “The best way to deal with problems is just to keep going, to persist and continue working at solutions”, says Donald Trump

25. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity”, says George S. Patton.

26. “What you cannot enforce, do not command”, says Sophocles.

27. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is then not an act, but a habit”, says Aristotle.

28. Ask yourself, “What can I learn today that I didn’t know before?”

29. “The first and best victory is to conquer self”, says Plato.

30. “The quality of a person’s life is in directly proportional to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor” by Vince Lombardi.

31. The Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

32. Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favor the prepared mind.”

33. Think Big. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

34. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow

35. Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.

36. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

37. “You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do” by Henry Ford.

38. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel.

39. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

40. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

41. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

42. Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, "what is the most valuable use of my time right now?"

43. To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.

44. When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.

45. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

46. Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.

47. To earn more, you must learn more.

48. The poor and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

49. Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

50. “Every company has room for the man, who has a definite plan of action, which is to the advantage of that company” by Napoleon Hill.

51. It’s not what you have (money), its what you do with what you have.

52. “Most misfortunes are the result of misused time” by Napoleon Hill

53. We don’t see the things the way they are. We see the things the way we are.

54. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for” by Sokrates.

55. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

56. “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits” by Napoleon Hill

57. “If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there” by Robert Kiyosaki.

58. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” by Steven Covey.

59. Don’t ever give up.

60. Fear keeps people small. Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side if your greatest fear lives your greatest life.

61. Get out of the stands. Get on the court. Play the game of life.

62. Be positive, what you think, is who you become.

63. When someone does well, applaud! You will make two people happy.

64. While most are dreaming of success. Winners wake up and work hard to achieve it.

65. To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

66. Watch you thought; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

67. What a mind can conceive and believe can achieve.

68. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment alone” by Robert Kiyosaki.

69. “The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time” by Robert Kiyosaki.

70. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow” by Robert Kiyosaki.

71. It’s not how much you make that counts but how much money you keep.
72. Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

73. “The rich buy assets. The poor have only expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets” by Robert Kiyosaki.

74. “Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming” by Jim Rohn

75. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment

76. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better” by Jim Rohn

77. 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.

78. Let others lives small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

79. “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become” by Jim Rohn

80. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can’t get more time.

81. “If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you have always gotten” by Tony Robbins

82. “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes are lives, but what we do consistently” by Tony Robbins

83. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know” by Tony Robbins

84. “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them” by Tony Robbins

85. There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

86. “In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth. While the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exist” by Eric Hoofer.

87. Your results are an expression of your level of awareness.
88. George Bernard Shaw says “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are, I don’t believe in circumstances. People, who get on in this world, are the ones who get up looked for the circumstance they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them”.

89. “The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another…. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserves to be preferred to others; but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.” Adam Smith (1759).

90. Many of life’s barriers and obstacles come from within. We create limits for ourselves, but once those barriers are broken, we realize the biggest barriers are our beliefs.

91. “When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.” Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

92. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking” William B. Sprague.

93. “Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”, says Albert Einstein.

94. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford.

95. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become” – Oprah Winfrey.

96. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan.

97. “What you get by achieving your goals, is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals” – Goethe.

98. It’s not what we do, that determines our success; it’s how we do it.

99. Our level of energy, our ability to access direct and utilize energy is more important to our success or failure than our heredity and education.

100. We should do what we love to do. When pursuing our dreams, we run into many obstacles and this is life. So if we don’t love what we do, we will back off or quit whenever we face an obstacle. But when we love what we do, then we try hard and pass over or around the obstacles and succeed to achieve our dreams.

101. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” William James (1842–1910)

102. “Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.” Martin Seligman.

103. “Active, successful natures act, not according to the dictum ‘know thyself’, but as if there hovered before them the commandment: will a self and thou shalt become a self.”

104. “Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul that have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this—that you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment and destiny.”

105. “Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating—and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.”

106. We don't attract what we want, but what we are. Only by changing your thoughts will you change your life.

107. “A person is what he thinks about all day long” says Emerson

108. “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him” James Allen

109. Poverty can happen to a person or people, but the defensive actions such as blaming the perpetrator will only run the wheels further into the rut.

110. Most of us are anxious to improve our circumstances, but are unwilling to improve ourselves – and we therefore remain bound.

111. "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddha.

112. “People work perfectly.” Program in new thoughts, actions, and feelings and you get a new life.

113. If one person can do something, anyone can learn to do it. We can model the thinking and behavior of people who are already successful in order to achieve similar results.

114. You cannot not communicate. Everything about you—eye and body movements, vocal tones, habits—is a form of communication. It is not difficult to sense when what a person is saying does not match with who they are.

115. The meaning of your communication is the response you get. People receive information filtered through their mental map of the world. How you communicate must be constantly adjusted so that the message you want to be received is the one that is received.

116. We must do, what we have to do, in order to do, what we want to do.

117. Education is the only way out, out of ignorance, the way out of darkness, into the glorious light.

118. What is popular is not always right, what is right is not always popular.

119. If the lesson of history teach us anything, it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us [Anon]

120. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

121. You miss 100% of the shots, you never take [Wayne Gretzky]

122. You must be the change, you wish to see in the world [Gandhi]

123. An inventor is simply a fellow, who doesn’t take his education too seriously [Charles F. Kettering]

124. 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]

125. Am I not destroying my enemies, when I make friends of them [Abraham Lincoln]

126. Failing to prepare is, preparing for failing.

127. Einstein says, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at, when we created them”.

128. It isn’t quiet happens to us, that affects our behavior, its our interpretation of what happens to us.

129. Allen Roosevelt says, “No one can make you feel inferior, without your permission”.

130. Gandhi says, “They cannot take away our self-respect, if we don’t give it to them”