Quotes on Success

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

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

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.