Quotes on Successful People

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

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

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.