Quotes on Success

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid is different than for another kid.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Concern yourself not with what you tried _x000D_ and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Consult not your fears but your hopes _x000D_ and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.