Success Quotes

Jan 20, 2011
Nicola Sompayrac

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What does success mean to you? Here is a collection of insight from some of our world's most inspiring leaders, icons, gurus, experts and authors. Enjoy!

Throughout Jack Canfield's best selling book, The Success Principles, there are numerous quotations from some of the world's most respected and accomplished individuals in our history. As you read through the few that I have selected to share with you, it is my hope that you may apply these thoughts, ideas and principles to your own life, keeping the following in mind:

"Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ~ Buddha.

The Fundamentals of Success

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself." ~ Jim Rohn
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." ~ Ben Stein
YES you CAN. "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does." ~ Venus Williams
"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming." ~ Jim Rohn
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein
"Never give up on your dream . . . Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it." ~ Tawni O'Dell
"We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction." ~ Chuck Gallozzi
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." ~ Robert Collier

Transform Yourself for Success

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." ~ Jim Rohn
"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." ~ Brian Tracy
"Whatever you read, see, listen to, talk about, and experience during the last 45 minutes of the day has a huge influence on your sleep and your next day." ~ Jack Canfield
Forgive. "Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill your enemies." ~ Nelson Mandela
"Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better." ~ Charles J. Givens
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." ~ Richard Bach
"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him - and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires." ~ J. Paul Getty
"If I am through learning, I am through." ~ John Wooden

Build Your Success Team

"Success follows doing what you want to do. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
"Study anyone who's great, and you'll find that they apprenticed to a master, or several masters." ~ Robert Allen
"When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence." ~ Napoleon Hill
"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part." ~ Michael J. Gelb

Create Successful Relationships

"Listen a hundred times. Ponder a thousand times. Speak once." ~ Source Unknown
"Most communication resembles a Ping-Pong game in which people are merely preparing to slam their next point across; but pausing to understand differing points of view and associated feelings can turn apparent opponents into true members of the same team." ~ Cliff Durfee
"When in doubt, tell the truth." ~ Mark Twain
"Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements." ~ Werner Erhard

Success and Money

"You must begin to understand, therefore, that the present state of your bank account, your sales, your health, your social life, your position at work, etc., is nothing more than the physical manifestation of your previous thinking." ~ Bob Proctor
"You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share." ~ Stuart Wilde
"Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability and buy assets. Poor and middle class acquire liabilities, but they think they are assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket." ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others . . . I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent." ~ Thomas A. Edison

Success Starts Now

"No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts." ~ Bob Proctor
"A journey of 1,000 miles must begin with one step." ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader." ~ Dolly Parton
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." ~ Anita Roddick

Dream big. Make a difference. Believe that everything is possible for you.

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined." ~ Henry James

Source

Canfield, Jack, 1944. The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.

Nicola Sompayrac - I am an entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for health, wellness, fitness, business, travel, education and self improvement. With a ...