I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the
formula for failure — which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert B. Swope
What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
— Unknown wise person
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
— Mason Cooley
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
— Anne Sullivan
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
— Donald A. Miller
How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: try too hard.
— Malcolm Forbes
One principal reason why people are so often useless is that they
neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their
attention
among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
— Nathaniel Emmons
Don’t flaunt your success, but don’t apologize for it either.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his
life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
— William James
If your belief system has not molded the life you desire, how you
think will need to change.
— Asha Tyson
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We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn – Alvin Toffler
Creativity is Humanity’s Best Quality!~CAW
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abe Lincoln
Accept that there is something you don´t know about that can change everything. -Neale Donald Walsch
Keep moving forward.
~ Ambrose Redmon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
There is no such thing as average!
“If you havent been successful yet, it is probably because you havent failed enough. what you need to do fail faster, but not too hardly”.
Sources: Unknown.
This is my favourite:-
“Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a courses greater than oneself.” Viktor Frankl
Cool new pic atop Everest
Another from Napoleon…
“Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.”
It’s directly about “wealth”, not “success”, but the same holds true for both and for many people, they go hand-in-hand.
Okay, Perry!
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
– Napoleon Hill
Yours
John W.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” Winston Churchill
Thank you very much
@adey77
Hey Perry, nice, like em.
Here’s one I like…
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they really need is one reason why they can.” -Willis Whitney
If two business partners always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
“We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.” -Ian Percy
Thanks, Perry! Great way to share.
@DrivenToExcel
My fave success quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
It gets me every time
Love & best wishes
Heather x
“Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
— St. Francis of Assisi
Love this quote. First heard it from Jeff Herring and have been working to live it every since.
Great engaging post Perry, thanks!
@Tina_Williams
“Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught”
- Mark Viktor Hansen
“Someday this will be true for all of us: Our network will equal our “net worth”"
- Tim Sanders
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” –Audrey Hepburn
If I’d yielded to critiques reports about me, I would have lived a far less exciting life. Whose reports do you need to defy? –Zara Green
AMEN! -PB
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” – Henry Ford
Here’s mine…especially because he always follows it!
“Consistently & constantly force yourself to focus on the ‘critically’ few proactive activities that produce exponential results” -Yanik Silver
Here are a few that I like:
“Success usualy comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”
-Henry Thoreau
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”
-Lewis Carroll
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference – to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work. -Werner Erhard
Until one is committed there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitively commits oneself, the providence moves too. All sort of things occur to help that would never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Goethe
These are success related, I think. I find them inspiring.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein.
” If you don’t learn something new everyday, then you are not paying attention”
Kirk Kerber
Here’s one I like:
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames
The difference between mediocrity and excellence is midnight oil, elbow grease, and the power of God. ~ Shelton Smith (not exactly on success, but closely related)
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