Quotes on Success

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Well done is better than well said.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.