Quotes on Success

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.