Quotes on Successful Life

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by which you may build a successful life. Make each day your masterpiece and live so nobly that you may witness honestly each day: Whatever came to your hands this day, you did it to the best of your ability

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.