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Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do.
— Steve Maraboli
Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.
— Charles T. Munger
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
— Arnold H. Glasow
Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of the world in general, you are given the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. And that is all anyone should ever expect from the Capitalist system. The rest is up to you.It's up to you to educate yourself.It's up to you to learn speaking skills and people skills.It's up to you to try (and usually fail, but to try again) all sorts of ventures.The rest is a combination of hard work, being at the right place ...at the right time...with the right thing...oh yes...and more (never ending) hard work.
— Gene Simmons
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.
— A.L. Kennedy
I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
— Josh Billings
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.(pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")
— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.
— Charles F. Glassman
The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.
— Steve Maraboli
Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.
— Isra
Big things begin with big thinking.
— Kent Healy
Discovering While Doing Is Natural...But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
— Derrick A. Bell, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.
— Charles Colton
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
— Robert W. Service
Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.
— Will Rogers
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
— Bryant McGill
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
— Karl Lagerfeld
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
— Ernest Hemingway
Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger W. Babson
An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.
— Eloise Ristad
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
— Truman Capote
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
— Biz Stone
Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice
— Ken Poirot
If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.
— Anamika Mishra
The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.
— Epictetus, Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses
Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.
— Ryan Lilly
If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches. 
— Hyman G. Rickover
Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.
— Tony Evans
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
— Orison Swett Marden
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
— Timothy Ferriss
Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.
— Toni Sorenson
How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.
— Toni Sorenson
Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.
— Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.
— Taylor Swift
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
— Russell Simmons
Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.
— Albert Camus
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.
— David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.
— Ashish Patel
The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it - BE it!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.
— James Kennedy
How would your life be different if...you had a plan of action towards your goals? Let today be the day...You stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.
— Robert Arnot
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.
— Shannon L. Alder
Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.
— Tim Fargo
A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!
— Donna McGoff
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
— Bryant McGill
Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.
— Ashok  Kallarakkal
We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper
— Israelmore Ayivor
And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe.
— Erin McCarthy, Hot Finish
Don`t allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out.That was the military.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
— Orrin Woodward
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
Nothing succeeds like success.
— Alexandre Dumas, Ange Pitou
Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.
— Lionel Suggs
Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. GlassLook back on my life like the ghost of Christmas pastToys R Us where I used to spend that Christmas cashAnd I still won't grow up, I'm a grown ass kidSwear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I didBut I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumphMake music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire
— Kanye West
Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
— Abraham Lincoln
So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
Why be a man when you can be a success.
— Bertolt Brecht
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Success is a decision, not a gift.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
No one can take the shot for you.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
— Richard P. Denney
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
— Doris Lessing
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.
— John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.
— Ana Monnar
My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
— Stella Oladiran, Winning Formulas
It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.
— Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
Victory does not come to cowardsit comes to the brave ones. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.
— Israelmore Ayivor
When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.
— John Patrick Hickey, Oops! Did I Really Post That
Life may bring you to your knees pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution! 
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.
— Ryan Lilly
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.
— Rob Liano
You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.
— Nancy D. Butler, Above All Else, Success in Life and Business
Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.
— Confucius, The Analects
The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.
— Lionel Suggs
Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.
— Mike  Norton, White Mountain
Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
— Michelle Sagara West, Cast In Courtlight
The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.
— Samael Aun Weor
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
— Alain de Botton
Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
— Gregg Harris
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.
— Solange nicole
It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.
— Therone Shellman
Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Story of Avis
The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.
— Brian Tracy
The way to be nothing is to do nothing
— Nathaniel Howe
hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever
— Chiranjit Paul
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
— William Hazlitt
Destiny, Talent, Calling, purpose. each of us came with our Talents, Purpose and Calling. What you do with them is the summary of your life here on earth.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..
— Bhadra
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
— Nelson Bunker Hunt
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
— José Ortega y Gasset
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
— Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.
— Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.
— Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
— Karl Lagerfeld
When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.
— Marilyn Suttle
Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
— An Wang
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
— Janette Turner Hospital, The Last Magician
Success certainly isn’t achievement of popularity. Success in God’s kingdom is loving God, loving one another, and being faithful to what He’s called us to do.
— Gabriel Wilson
If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service. 
— Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them
— Frank Eberhart
You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.
— Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. 
— Cecil B. DeMille
I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well.
— Shannon Drake, Reckless
Sharing your success with others reveals your true humanity. Don't ever be afraid to open your heart to that practice. It has made all the world of difference to me.
— Andrea Michaels, Reflections Of A Successful Wallflower: Lessons In Business; Lessons In Life
One person's success doesn't take away from your own.
— Jeremy Piven
The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When I was small I felt like a Superhero as my father threw me up in the air.Now after reaching this success peak I unmask - Real Superhero made me Superhero!
— Hasil Paudyal
Run wild and free like a waterfall
— Anamika Mishra
Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success.  
— Rob Liano
Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.
— Julian Pencilliah
Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
— A.C. Benson, Escape and Other Essays
Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much better to be criticised for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.
— Epictetus
If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
— Confucius, The Analects
Success is a choice you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her 
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
don't read the success storiesyou will get messagebut read the failure storiesyou will get the ideas become successful
— Asif Jaana
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
— Mollie Marti
The secret code of success is patience,a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you’ve left their presence.
— Mollie Marti
BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success live this day accordingly! 
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.
— Mollie Marti
Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are an artist. Your single greatest work of art is your self. As with any art form, the more you understand and develop your talents, the more empowered and masterful you become as an artist. This is particularly important when engaging in the art of consciously shaping your own life.
— Scott Edmund Miller
I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible.
— Walter Knott
The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.
— Stacy Keach
The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
— Rensis Likert
If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.
— Tommy Newberry, Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life
Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.
— Julien Smith, The Flinch
Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.
— Julien Smith
You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused...You have been described, do not accept any other description!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
life is a continous journey of transformation
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
— Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited
— Robert Freedman
Failure is The Way of Success
— Chiranjit Paul
The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.
— Noor Ahmad
I wokeup in morning and saw, world has move on
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.
— Howlin' Wolf
I don't define success by how much money someone makes. I don't define success by how many trophies or plaques or awards someone has.I don't define it by membership in exclusive clubs or the ability to name-drop about someone's famous friends.I don't define it by how many luxury cars or opulent homes someone might own or how many sumptuous vacations they might taken in exotic locales all over the 
— Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
Do the things you were sent here to do effectively.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you’ve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...
— J.M. August
The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
— Michael   Lewis
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
— Arthur Lydiard
Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.
— Derrick A. Bell
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
— Gloria Vanderbilt, It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
— Tom Robbins
Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection, too.
— David J. Schwartz
So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people.
— Christian A. Dumais
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
— Lee Iacocca
Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!
— Victoria Addino
Anything worthy is worth the fight!
— Besa Kosova
Success comes to those who hustle wisely.
— K.A. Jordan
As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65
— Marcel Benabou, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books
Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
— Monty Hall
Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do.
— Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
— James Arthur Ray, Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want
Did you once have a grand plan which has become obsolete and no longer serves you? If there are areas in your life which must change to help you create better results, a redesign may be in order. Consider going back to the ‘drawing board’ to deconstruct what isn’t working and start anew.
— Susan C. Young
It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.
— Lana M. H. Wilder
Be a life-long learner. Whether you are seeking to achieve peace and harmony, learn a new technology to do your work faster, or design a strategy to blow your competitors out of the water, retraining is a pivotal way to strengthen your knowledge and realize your goals
— Susan C. Young
There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.
— Susan C. Young
Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying.
— Steve Goodier
Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one and help others to have a great day and you will find that not only they like you but you will like you too.
— John Patrick Hickey, Oops! Did I Really Post That
The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you — envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.
— Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life
You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
— Napoleon Hill
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Winners were not born winners; they learnt and practiced how to win and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate" until something happened... an a breakthrough became evident!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.
— Kaimana Wolff, Broken Sleep
Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity.
— Confucius, The Analects
People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a midget if you were bald.
— Lemony Snicket
Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
To succeed in this competition means finding yourself in a place where you call the shots and get the gains. This is not an easy feat, unless you are born into it. if you are not, you will need to out-smart your equals. You need to be more ambitious than they are. You need to work harder. You need to look better and smarter. You need to justify why it should be you and not them. It’s a competition.
— Emi Iyalla
As long as we consider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.
— Ahmed Alibage
The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.
— Confucius, The Analects
There is no try. There is only do.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Have nuts and be nuts.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
This just gets worse and worse," Rob Pierre sighed as he skimmed Leonard Boardman's synopsis of his latest gleanings from the Solarian League reporters covering the PRH. "How can one person—one person, Oscar!—do this much damage? She's like some damned elemental force of nature!""Harrington?" Oscar Saint-Just quirked an eyebrow and snorted harshly at Pierre's nodded confirmation."She's just happened to be in the right places—or the wrong ones, I suppose, from our perspective—for the last, oh, ten years or so. That's the official consensus from my analysts, at least. The other theory, which seems to have been gaining a broader following of late, is that she's in league with the Devil.
— David Weber, Ashes of Victory
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.
— Marc Maron, Attempting Normal
Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days, you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist.
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that.
— Sakshi Chetana, How to be Successful: Powerful Lessons for Success
I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success...victory it has my complete focus. 
— Spuds Crawford
Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential.
— Sakshi Chetana, How to be Successful: Powerful Lessons for Success
Failure has its successes.
— Brian  Howard
Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.
— Robert A. Schuller
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards
— Dag Ekeberg, Missing in Thailand
We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing is impossible, Everything should be possible when we trying for achieve the goal
— Sanjeev Murukan
Be as successful as a Smith.
— Gregory C. Dugger
I shall not dwell in the past...I shall not dread the present...I shall not fear the Future...For as Long as I live...I shall only think of success.
— Oscar Trejo Jr., Remember Me Tomorrow
Result of HARDWORK Is Neither Friends Nor Enemy,To the AGE Of the ACHIEVER!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained.
— Sakshi Chetana, How to be Successful: Powerful Lessons for Success
Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother
— Isra