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There is a funny story I always tell my students...when I came for the first time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word “exit” which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :”No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they take leads to success” ~smile :)
— Pablo
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.
— Mollie Marti
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
— Nur Sakinah Thomas
The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition.
— Andrew      Brown
I awoke one morning to find myself famous.
— George Gordon Byron
An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
— Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones
Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
— Michael Connelly, Chasing the Dime
Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.
— Amanda Beard, In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir
The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
You can actually recreate your world with the Word of the Creator in your mouth.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.
— Mike Schmoker, Results
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
— George P. Shultz
Knowledge is very vital in life`s transformation and transition
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization—in our arts, languages, sciences, technologies, businesses, governments, and so on—it is clear that we are a profoundly creative species. Yet many of us only access a smidgen of our creativity.
— Scott Edmund Miller
Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence
— John Milton Lawrence
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
Yes, all you need do is to change your orientation and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that He can make you whole, change your status, and add value to your destiny.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.
— Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy
your right standing with God and your connection to Him remains your strongest defense in the day of calamity.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Set out time to worship God in your closet, give Him quality praise and watch Him raise you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.
— Frederick Drimmer, Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People
There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If obstacles are large, jump higher.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Act like a champion, and then become one.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is action that creates motivation.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If not now, when?
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If not you, who?
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
(Ulrich, 100 year old Bulgarian man): in Solo, by Rana Dasgupta"Ulrich has sometimes wondered whether his life has been a failure. Once he would have looked at all this and said yes. But now he does not know what it means for a life to succeed or fail. How can a dog fail its life, or a tree? A life is just a quantity; and he can no more see failure in it than he can see failure in a pile of earth, or a bucket of water. Failure and success are foreign terms to such blind matter." (p. 160)
— Rana Dasgupta
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
See it, feel it, trust it!
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that.
— Kristi Bowman
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
— Mark Cain
People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.
— Randy Gage
If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
— George Burns
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
See it first in your mind, then become it.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
To think is good. To obsess is bad.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
— Bud Wilkinson
Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated
To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
— Moss Hart, Act One
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
— George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
— Wade Davis
Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
— Grantland Rice
Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.
— Shannon L. Alder
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.
— John Powell, Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.
— Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.
— Scott Cherney
Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.
— Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.
— Ian Fleming, Doctor No
Your career success in the workplace of today–independent of technical expertise–depends on the quality of your people skills. (9)
— Max Messmer Jr., Managing Your Career for Dummies
I can only strive for what is important
— Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
— David J. Schwartz
He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter
— John Grisham, The Testament
We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of "success" from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game. 
— Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones
— Pamela Glass Kelly, From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers
How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.
— Rana Dasgupta, Solo
Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.
— John Hanley Jr.
If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.
— John  Dalton
Failure are given power, not success ..
— David S. Mark
Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money – you cool with that?” - Gable
— J.M. August
A great deal of success in life depends on the relationship you have with yourself, your partner and your money.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
Learning, empowering, studying, practicing, and not repeating the same mistakes will help you move forward, move up, and move on to where you want to be.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.
— Dr. Dragos, Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.
— Dr. Dragos, Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.
— Dr. Dragos, Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.
— Dr. Dragos, Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental. Without every member feeling deeply that he or she belongs to that group there is no team.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
Most people accept living unhappy lives because it is the only way they know, they refuse to be open to the new emerging possibilities and refuse to make positive changes. Because they are afraid of being outside their own comfort zone and don’t risk anything, they live lives that are far less fulfilling than they could actually have.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
Social context trumps reason and social context drives your behaviors with an influence akin to an invisible force. We naturally adapt our behaviors to the context.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
As humans, we unconsciously embrace the group’s beliefs and behaviors without questioning them or surrender to their opinions.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
Failure opens the door to the most powerful lessons and discoveries – but it does so only if you have the courage to accept reality and look failure in the eye.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
Issues or fears of confrontation tend to showcase unhealthy and unprofessional communication. If you are trusting someone to tell you all the good, bad and ugly, but they only give you the good out of their fears and confrontational issues… the bad and the ugly can grow worse and worse quickly.
— Loren Weisman
Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure.
— Charbel Tadros
When you decide to remove the word “failure” from your dictionary, it is definitely time for you to re-evaluate your definition of the word “success”. Those who found success without going through failures never found true success, only delusions.
— Charbel Tadros
There are two kinds of people: goal-oriented and ego-oriented. Goal-oriented people work together and get things gone. Ego-oriented people don’t work.
— Charbel Tadros
The future, when it comes, is just like the present. The present is all you have and the opportunity of the present is worth more than the success of the past or the promise of the future.
— William J. Reilly, How to Avoid Work
Nobody played poker with Mike Walsh--at least, not twice--but people fought to get aboard Constellation. Her command record since Mike took her was almost the equal of Enterprise's for danger, daring, and success not only snatched from the jaws of failure, but afterward used to beat failure over the head.
— Diane Duane, My Enemy, My Ally
A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.
— Charbel Tadros
Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Every step we take toward the top is possible because of all the little steps we took in the past.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
You are capable of great things.Show up.Show up consistently.Show up consistently with a positive outlook.Be prepared for and committed to the long haul.Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith.Be willing to pay the price.And do the things you've committed to doing-even when you don't feel like it, even when no one else is watching.
— Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life
As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.
— Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life
Always take failure as an opinion never as an option. 
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Don't let societies perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great at more than one thing?
— Nyki Mack
Determine how you are going to measure your success.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at a time.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Be sure to ask for help, and vent or brag on your progress along the way.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Do your best in the day, for the day, and then work on tomorrow when it comes. Show yourself grace and laugh at yourself.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
You want to be able to say, for example, “I will know I am successful if these three things happen.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If you cannot tie your marketing efforts to actual dollars that the electric company will accept, it’s time to adjust your plan.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I’ve always said we can’t all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other’s experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Business is fluid and you can always improve and progress as your time and financial resources allow, and as your learningcurve shortens.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Keep the momentum while you are moving to guarantee additional motion and momentum.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
We only have one life (unless you’re a cat or a Buddhist) and it’s often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to take a breath. We praise fat pay checks, but forget to be generous. We flaunt accumulation, but don’t use what we have. We value our diplomas, but forget how to be curious. We push a button on a treadmill that doesn’t take us anywhere as we look out at the park across the street.
— Ellen Rowland, Everything I Thought I Knew: An Exploration of Life and Learning
If you don’t know your tendencies and can’t analyze when you are most effective, then how can you get the most done in the least amount of time with the best results?
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
There is something vibrantly beautiful, a glow, that radiates from someone who is actively moving towards their goals and dreams. I’m not sure what it is, but I know I love it, I’m attracted to it, and I surround myself with people who have it. The courageous few who dare to radiate this life essence... those are my people.
— Steve Maraboli
Habits are tools. They can either propel you toward success or drag you down.
— Silvica Rosca, Champion's Planner
The more you tell yourself that you are trying to do something rather than telling yourself that you are doing said thing, the harder it is to have success in your attempts. By saying that you are trying to do something you are focusing on the negatives making it impossible to have a positive outcome.
— Avina Celeste
Want true success? Ask yourself these 3 questions daily:1. Who can I serve?2. Where can I contribute greatest?3. Is my work today congruent with my future goals?
— Richie Norton
Work is meant to create a desired outcome. If your work is not creating the dream, what are you working on?
— Richie Norton
It does not matter how many times you fall, the most important thing is there exist grace to shake of the dirt, and pull all forces for a rise up.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With grace, you will succeed despite strong opposition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Marketing and promoting doesn’t come down to the likes, the pins, the plus ones, the followers, the fans, the friends, the views, or the plays online. Marketing and promoting comes down to the conversions.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
A road often travelled has heavy traffic and you take more time to reach the destination.
— Ajeet Sharma, Three Marketeers
Where there is no integrity, there is no unity.
— Richie Norton
Integrity is the bond of trust.
— Richie Norton
Being broke is part of the journey. Staying broke is a fucking choice.
— Jaymin Shah
No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become "Successful".
— Jaymin Shah
My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best musicians in the business.
— Artie Kane,
When something looks impossible, don’t give up without testing its impossibility
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved in “making it”, and what actually is happening behind the scenes. Too many artists take at face value what they see on some TV documentary or read in a fan magazine. Whether you are working with others in a band, looking to connect with a manager, an agent, a label, or an investor, or you just want to work in the industry, it is more crucial than ever to know what you are working for and toward.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
The true meaning of success is not in how many times you failed because of your hindrances, but how you became a success regardless of your hindrances and failures
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You can do it. That thing you just thought of, you can do it.
— Avina Celeste
When your car needs gas, you go to a gas station and get back on the road. You don’t stay at the gas station for the rest of your life. Learn to rest and never to quit. Remember this while you journey through life.
— Avina Celeste
If you go with the flow, life will take you where it pleases, good or bad. If you take charge and fight, you can go anywhere that you please.
— Avina Celeste
If you are willing to work for it, you can obtain whatever you want. Just put in the hard work and watch everything begin to move your way.
— Avina Celeste
True success is the soundness of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there any success, without the soundness of mind?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you stop learning, you forget what you ready know.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want your life to be successful, you must look inward. You must change how you think before your life can change. You change your thinking. You change your actions. You change your life.
— Avina Celeste
When nothing seems to be going right, take a break. Clear your head and give yourself some time to rest. Then try again. Rinse and repeat. Over and over again until you see the results you want. Take your time off as a time to change your perspective, as a time to find a solution to your problem. With hard work and dedication, any problem can be solved. Don't expect instant results with no work, expect small successes and many failures that will build up to become your dreams.
— Avina Celeste
Win or lose, you are trying, that's what matters.
— Avina Celeste
Carrying someone else’s weight is only going to weigh down on you and add stress, frustration, and pain. Choose who you work with and play with wisely.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the “right time,” the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you—no one else.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
A Bombshell’s constant struggle is living up to her God given potential while also battling in her mind the difference between her expectations and the world’s expectations.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
A Bombshell wants it all, yet she is beginning to see shecan’t have it all at once.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
The concept of “work-life balance” is a fleeting idea for a Bombshell. Instead, a focus on work-life success—where her time and energy shifts based on the rotating demands of each area of her life—is far more realistic.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Sorry, Sister. You're not “normal.” You're exceptional. You're a Bombshell. If this was easy, everyone would be a successful business owner.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Too much success spoils success.
— Marty Rubin
Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I hold in my hand a million ideas and more. But if I am puzzled as to why they have never leapt out of my hand and been birthed into the realities they were crafted to be, it is likely because the other hand has withheld the sacrifice that is necessary to birth an idea.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The educators pride of their profession opens the space to more giving that knows no limitation, and it is a demand that is forced by things nature, and a logic that is required by the profession reality to every organization that wants success and chooses winning by making sure that all of their employees has this effective spirit.
— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
Success is only possible to those whose hearts are willing and ready to embrace hard work
— Topsy Gift
Success breeds ambition, and our recent achievements are now pushing humankind to set itself even more daring goals. Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are likely to be immortality, happiness and divinity.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The mindset of the Champions is All of it or None of it they don't play second- fiddle. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
The Best Things In Life Aren't So Sweet But Their Results Are Sweeter!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don't Expect Others to Read or Hear Your Thoughts; if You Want to be Heard, Speak Up and Speak Out!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don’t long – just be. Don’t even look – just be! Don’t think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything – because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.
— Osho
Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected Poetry
Don't be afraid to wake up your dream... give it a hard nudge, a toss of cold water... make it leap, make it fly. Dreams won't come to life without action.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Those who are determined to succeed are those who eventually succeed.
— Jeanette Coron
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
— Anita Roddick
Another method of handling a perceived negative energy is to temporarily remove yourself emotionally and physically, from the situation.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.
— Marty Rubin
A business is like an automobile. Its people its wheels, their passion its fuel.
— Ajeet Sharma, Three Marketeers
If you lose money in business, you can still cover up the loss. If you lose time, the only thing you have by your side is wreckage.
— Ajeet Sharma, Three Marketeers
The ability to differentiate between life challenges and who you are at the core is everything. A failed business, relationship or dream doesn’t make you a failure as a person.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When in darkness, you lose your own shadow too
— Zain Baloch
The experiences you get from failures early in life, will carry you for the rest of your life.
— Tarun Sharma
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
— Henry David Thoreau
Success is not about age, it's about action.
— Richie Norton
Without failure, there is no success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The more risk you can take upfront in life, the better off you will be later.
— Tarun Sharma
Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.
— Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.
— Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
Being mad at failure and being analytical about the reason for failure are 2 different things, first reason slow us down the second will give us an extra boost to try better next time, being mad at things, people or situation is easy, the difficult part is giving your madness a method to succeed.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Fail early, fail often.
— Tarun Sharma
Let attitude be Your determination, go for success and not for money, because success is money
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Start before you're ready.Don't prepare, begin.
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
We feel stuck in a rut, unable to say ‘no’ to our parents, unable to put an end to their controlling behavior, unable to grab hold of our own lives, simply because we fear that we will hurt, insult, disrespect or disappoint our parents (entire families).
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
..., there are two things most important in preparing yourself for success. One is going the extra miles. Never settle for average. If other people study for one hour, study for five. If other run two kilometers, run three. If people give up in 10 seconds, don’t give up until 20. Always try to be more than ordinary...” ... “Another recipe is to never let yourself be influenced by elements outside of yourself. By anyone, anything, or any atmosphere. Meaning, don’t be sad, angry, or disappointed because of external factors. You are the ones with power over yourselves, do don’t give that power to others. Someone may hold a gun, but you have a choice, to feel fear or stand tall. You have choice, most deeply inside, and it has nothing to do with outside influence.” -101
— Ahmad Fuadi, Negeri 5 Menara
So choose your mood, in even the most messed-up situation. Because you are the masters and rulers of your own hearts. And the heart that always can be controlled by its owner is the heart of successful person,” -101
— Ahmad Fuadi, Negeri 5 Menara
Success does not start at the top it begins by deciding to get up from the bottom. 
— Ken Poirot
You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, ‘I made it!’ You will rarely feel done or complete or even successful. Most people I know struggle with that complicated soup of feeling slighted on one hand and like a total fraud on the other. Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else’s. It doesn’t matter how much you get; you are left wanting more. Success is filled with MSG.
— Amy Poehler
When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you lose your own shadow too
— Zain Baloch
The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Cheer those passing through tough times but trying to smile all the same. Encourage them to keep trying and not to give in or give up. Tell them it’s not over until YOU say it’s over. Appreciate their positivity tell them that you are proud of them and that they deserve to succeed. 
— Latika Teotia
Celebrate your achievements and victories without waiting for recognition from others; after all it’s your efforts which brought that accomplishment. A flower blooms in the desert with nary a person to appreciate its beauty, yet it blossoms, spreads its fragrance and enjoys its existence. A dew drop caught on the leaf in an unexplored forest sparkles like a diamond; it doesn’t need spectators to appreciate its beauty. You shouldn’t be dependent on others to encourage you instead be your own cheer leader… Love yourself to bits.
— Latika Teotia
We let life down: it doesn't let us down.
— Marty Rubin
Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want.Picasso created nearly 100 masterpieces in his lifetime. But what most people don't know is that he created a total of more then 50,000 works of art. .. Thats two pieces of art a day. Success is a numbers game. You are not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed.
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.
— Jim Rohn
You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife's bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty - always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.'It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me...And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!
— Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Procrastination should not be linked with failure, just as early action should not be tied to success.
— Mary Lamia
If nobody else will give you a platform, build your own!
— Suzette Vearnon
I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those legends in Russia, confirmed by Passek, Sleptsov and others, that one only has to come to the Caucasus to be showered with decorations. Everyone expects it of us, demands it of us. But I've been here two years, taken part in two expeditions and received nothing. For all that, I've so much pride that I won't leave this place until I'm a major, with an Anna or a Vladimir round my neck. I've reached the point where it really rankles when some Gnilokishkin is decorated and I'm not. What's more, how could I look my elder in the face again, or merchant Kotel'nikov to whom I sell grain, or my aunt in Moscow and all those fine gentlemen in Russia, if I return after two years in the Caucasus with nothing to show for it? No, I don't want to know those gentlemen and I'm sure that they couldn't care less about me. But such is man's nature that though I couldn't give a damn about them they're the reason why I'm ruining the best years of my life, my happiness and whole future.
— Leo Tolstoy, The Wood-Felling, The Raid, and Other Stories
Men's lives are short .The hard man and his cruelties will beCursed behind his back and mocked in death.But one whose heart and ways are kind - of himstrangers will bear report to the whole wide world,and distant men will praise him.- Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)
— Robert Fitzgerald, The Odyssey
The person you will be in 5 years is decided by the people you spend time with and the books you read today
— Unknown