Quotes on Successful People

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.