to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self- fulfilling prophecy. Tony Robbins 2. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau 3. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie 4. Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go. Unknown 5. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. David M. Burns 6. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe 7. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit. Conrad Hilton 8. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi 9. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain 10. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton 11. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett 12. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. Oscar Wilde 13. Dont 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 14. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar 15. If you dont value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it. Kim Garst 16. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee 17. Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: theyre trying to find someone whos going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. Anthony Robbins 18. Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker 19. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi 20. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. Albert Einstein 21. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell 22. The road to success is always under construction. Lily Tomlin 23. If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein 24. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman 25. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson 26. If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn 27. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the someday Ill philosophy. Denis Waitley 28. Dont let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. Robert Kiyosaki 29. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you havent planted. David Bly 30. Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. Wilfred Peterson 31. Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. Vaibhav Shah 32. For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you dont enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are youre not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isnt going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. Andy Rooney 33. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. Robert Collier 34. Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan 35. The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra 36. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte 37. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain 38. Success comes in cans; failure in cants. Unknown 39. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napoleon Hill 40. Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. Milton Erickson 41. The question isnt who is going to let me; its who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand 42. If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein 43. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, Id spend six hours sharpening my ax. Abraham Lincoln 44. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn 45. The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others. Unknown 46. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill 47. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. 48. We become what we think about most of the time, and thats the strangest secret. Earl Nightingale 49. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that dont really matter. Francis Chan 50. A year from now you may wish you had started today.