Defining success
Success is not a destination thing, it’s a daily thing.
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Success is something you attract by the person you become.
All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.
A good life is one where you develop your strengths, realize your potential, and become what it is in your nature to become.
What you seek is seeking you.
Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.
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, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.
Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Start with the end in mind.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.
It is a simple and obvious fact that nothing of value can be achieved until you first see it in your mind. So tell me: When you unlock that secret treasure chest in your mind, what do you see?
Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.
To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.
Success is a decision, not a gift.
You can have what you want, but you have to think what you want, and you have to think of it as already being so. This is the science that Jesus exemplified.
Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Success without fulfillment is failure.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Human beings are by nature actors who cannot become something until they have first pretended to be it.
The number one risk that rich people are willing to take is to be paid for their results rather than or in addition to their time. They choose to take a chance on themselves. They believe in their own self-discipline and their own ability to produce results.
Success comes down to choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Consistently.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.
Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
Imagineering is vital because it leads to greater self-belief and greater confidence, which in turn leads to better performance and achievements.
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.
...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
We all want to be famous people—and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free.
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
Success, ultimately, is up to the individual. It isn’t the pen—it’s the writer; it isn’t the road—it’s the runner that counts.
If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.