Quotes on Success

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.