Quotes on Road To Success

You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can - including the obstacles - to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.