There are two kinds of success: success of distinction and success of satisfaction. Success of distinction means getting rich, or famous, or in some way marked out among your fellows. But this point should not be overlooked: that in this sort of success Chance plays a great part. Good fortune has not all to do with making a prominent person, but it always has something … [ Read more ]
Author: Frank Crane | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
Author: G. K. Chesterton | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Author: Tony Robbins | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Success / Failure
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is.
Author: Amy Poehler | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Author: Henry David Thoreau | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Author: Reba McEntire | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure, Wisdom
Success, not greatness, is the only god the entire world serves.
Author: Cameron Crowe | Source: Drew Baylor (character played by Orlando Bloom) in the movie, Elizabethtown (2005) | Subjects: Culture, Life & Society, Success / Failure
The only way to stay a winner is to surround oneself with losers.
Authors: M.D., Thomas A. Harris | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Success / Failure
Don’t aim for success if you want it. Just do what you love and it will come naturally.
Author: David Frost | Subject: Success / Failure
Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Golden Principle | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Success / Failure
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: The Roman Rule | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Success / Failure
It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham | Subjects: Life & Society, Success / Failure
Anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong – the true test is admitting it to someone else.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Morris’s Law | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Gylme’s Formula for Success | Subjects: Gratitude, Success / Failure
For most of those which were great once are small today. And those that used to be small were great in my own time. Knowing, therefore, that human prosperity never abides long in the same place, I shall pay attention to both.
Author: Herodotus | Subjects: Material Possessions, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure, Wisdom
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.
Author: Wayne Dyer | Subjects: Material Possessions, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men. The term implies an individual independence of the past and present which can never exist.
Author: Frederick Douglass | Subject: Success / Failure