Quotes on Success

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

His head was turned by too great success.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.