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The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.
Abraham (Jerry and Esther Hicks), excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996 (see works by Abraham-Hicks )
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
My chief ‘success philosophy’ is, ‘Give people every opportunity to say “Yes” to you’.
from Living Wonderfully, by Robert Holden (see works by Robert Holden )
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A Peer
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton
There is only one success – to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
There is a way to be successful every day. It is to determine that each worry or tension will reveal some new esoteric secret to you. Then, no event can be called a failure, for you are succeeding inwardly, which is the only place that counts.
The Daily Guru
What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
from Megaliving!, by Robin S Sharma (see works by Robin Sharma )
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
Og Mandino (see works by Og Mandino )
Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.
from Pulling Your Own Strings, by Wayne Dyer (see works by Wayne Dyer )
…I don’t have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.
Michael Smith in The Inside Edge, by Peter James
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 and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan (see works by and about Michael Jordan )
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian spiritual leader (see works by and about Gandhi )
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
J Harold Wilkins
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Vauvenargues
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! – thine own has reached the shore.
Hindu Proverb (see more Hindu proverbs )
He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
Henry B Wilson
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) English novelist (see works by Anthony Trollope )
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Longfellow (see works by Longfellow )
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
Publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in a letter to his son
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark
Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.
from The Trick to Money Is Having Some!, by Stuart Wilde (see works by Stuart Wilde )
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones (1899-1981) Welsh theologian
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Vauvenargues
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer (see works by and about Helen Keller )
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
Harrison Ford (1942-) American actor (see works by and with Harrison Ford )
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They are companions – the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames
Money like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.
Wayne Dyer (see works by Wayne Dyer )
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