I hope that you will find these 50 quotations about success inspiring and uplifting. They certainly are for me, which is why I have added them as a permanent record to my blog!
1. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” Earl Nightingale
2. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” Ray Goforth
3. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” Thomas J. Watson
4. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” Pablo Picasso
5. “Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.” Ryan Blair
6. “Failure is not in your vocabulary; rather, you convert all working experiences, be they positive or negative, into fuel for future success.” Anonymous
7. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absense of fear.” Mark Twain
8. “Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.” Dwayne Michael Carter
9. “Top Achievers are improvisors, not perfectionists. If you want to create more success in your life you have to move forward not knowing all the answers.” Douglas Vermeeren
10. “Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.” Eliphas Levi
11. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan
12. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” Robert Collier
13. “All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.” R. Sharma
14. “The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.” Chae Richardson
15. “Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.” Thomas Edison
16. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” Dr. APJ Kalam
17. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson
18. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always some one to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising to tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has it’s victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “How you see the world first determines your attitude, and then your attitude determines how the world sees you.” Mark Amend
20. “As soon as you realize that you don’t need anyone to make it in life. That’s your first step towards success.” Vusi Ndlovu
21. “Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” Anonymous
22. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” Napolean Hill
23. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak
24. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” Philippos
25. “There are some things you can’t learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.”Norman Vicent Peale
26. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” Anonymous
27. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood” Stephen Covey
28. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” Dale Carnegie
29. “When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.” Steve Pavlina
30. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” Anonymous
31. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “An object at rest tends to stay at rest, an object in motion tends to stay in motion.” Isaac Newton
33. “The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.” Norman Vincent Peale
34. “The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. “Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.” Sam Walton
36. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” Robert T. Kiyosaki
37. “Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is.” Anita Roddick
38. “Action generates motivation; not the other way around.” Mark Amend
39. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
40. “I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” Russell Simmons
41. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” Proverb
42. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela
43. “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” John Wooden
44. “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen
45. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” Vaibhav Shah
46. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein
47. “Success belongs to those who believe in the power of their ideas.” Michael Irwin
48. “Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” Orison Swett Marden
49. “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts breaks their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali
50. “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” Napoleon Hill
These quotations were ‘borrowed’ from this page – http://www.mindpowernews.com/SuccessQuotes.htm – as I wanted a permanent record of them.
These 50 quotations about success are priceless jewels that will help to sustain you on your journey in business.