Inspirations

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

For true success ask yourself these four questions, Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

- James Allen

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

- John R Amos

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

- Doctor Robert Anthony

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

- Arthur Ashe

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

- Gilberte Beaux

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

- Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

- Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

- Henry Ward Beecher

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider, and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation, persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

- Alexander Graham Bell

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

- Irving Berlin

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

- Al Bernstein

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

- Sir Walter Besant

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

- Louis Binstock

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures, it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

- Edwin C Bliss

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

- Edward William Bok

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

- Nelson Boswell

My definition of success is control.

- Kenneth Branagh

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorothea Brande

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

- Doctor Joyce Brothers

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

- Charles Browder

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

- Bob Brown

I hope I have convinced you, the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

- Helen Gurley Brown

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Warren Buffett

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

- Eddie Cantor

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

- Thomas Carlyle

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

- Johnny Carson

Success makes success, like money makes money.

- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

- Robert Collier

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

- Marva Collins

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

- Russel H Conwell

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

- Walter Cronkite

The road to success runs uphill.

- Willie Davis

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

- Benjamin Disraeli

To succeed� you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

- Tony Dorsett

Success, it's what you do with what you've got.

- Leroy Van Dyke

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so, I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

- Thomas A Edison

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

- G Emmons

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

- Benjamin F Fairless

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

- William Feather

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

- Art Fettig

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

- Charles Fillmore

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

- Harvey S Firestone

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

- Ernest A Fitzgerald

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

- Malcolm S Forbes

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

- Franki

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

- Mimfa A Gibson

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

- Joe Girard

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

- Charles J Givens

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

- Andrew Granatelli

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

- Albert Gray

You never become a howling success by just howling.

- Bob Harrington

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

- Napoleon Hill

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

- Napoleon Hill

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.

- Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

- Napoleon Hill

To give your best is to receive the best.

- Raymond Holliwell

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

- Hamilton Holt

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

- Edgar Watson Howe

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

- Elbert Hubbard

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

- Bunker Hunt

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

- Reggie Jackson

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

- John Johnson

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

- Stewart B Johnson

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

- Joe Karbo

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

- Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

- Michael Korda

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

- Michael Korda

The Lord gave us two ends, one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

- Ann Landers

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success is that old AY B C, ability, breaks, and courage.

- Charles Luckman

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

- Og Mandino

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

- Orison Swett Marden

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

- Cecil B De Mille

There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.

- Christopher Morley

Successful people are not gifted, they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

- G K Nielson

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

- Earl Nightingale

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

- Earl Nightingale

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

- Earl Nightingale

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

- Alex Noble

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

- Donny Osmond

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

- Norman Vincent Peale

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Jack Penn

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

- Colin Powell

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

- Leontyne Price

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

- Proverb

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

- Diana Rankin

The only journey is the one within.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

- Anthony Robbins

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

- Anthony Robbins

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain, and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

- Anthony Robbins

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?

- Anthony Robbins

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

- Anthony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

- Anthony Robbins

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

- John D Rockefeller

Success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become.

- Jim Rohn

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

- Jim Rohn

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

- Jim Rohn

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

- Jim Rohn

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ''Certainly I can!'' -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical, it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

- Donald Rumsfeld

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

- John Ruskin

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

- Robert H Schuller

The man who has done his best has done everything.

- Charles M Schwab

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is. Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

- David J Schwartz

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

- Albert Schweitzer

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

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

- William Shakespeare

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

- Ruth Smeltzer

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

- May V Smith

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is a journey, not a destination.

- Ben Sweetland

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

- Fran Tarkenton

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you, suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

- Margaret Thatcher

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

- Robert Thibodeau

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.

- Brian Tracy

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

- Goldstein S Truism

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

- Source Unknown

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed, you have to stay awake days.

- Source Unknown

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

- Source Unknown

There is plenty of room at the top, but no place to sit down.

- Source Unknown

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

- Source Unknown

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

- Source Unknown

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

- Source Unknown

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

- Source Unknown

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

- Source Unknown

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

- Source Unknown

Formula for Success, and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some, then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

- Source Unknown

Success and money have nothing in common.

- Source Unknown

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

- Source Unknown

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

- Source Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

- Source Unknown

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

- Source Unknown

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

- Denis Waitley

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

- Basil S Walsh

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

- An Wang

Men never plan to be failures, they simply fail to plan to be successful.

- William A Ward

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

- William A Ward

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T Washington

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Thomas J Watson

There is always room at the top.

- Daniel Webster

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

- H G Wells

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

- C W Wendte

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

- Howard Whitman

Nothing succeeds like success.

- Oscar Wilde

There is no royal road, you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

- Charles E Wilson

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

- Thomas Wolfe

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way, seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

- John Wooden

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

- John Wooden

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

- John Wooden

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting, in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Zig Ziglar

Success is dependent upon the glands, sweat glands.

- Zig Ziglar

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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 8: Believe in Yourself

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

For true success ask yourself these four questions, Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures, it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

My definition of success is control.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I hope I have convinced you, the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

The road to success runs uphill.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

To succeed� you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Success, it's what you do with what you've got.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so, I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The Lord gave us two ends, one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.

Success is that old AY B C, ability, breaks, and courage.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.