“Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.” ~ Denis Waitley
“Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.” ~ Nido Qubein
“Success is not the destination; it’s a way to travel.” ~ Denis Waitley
“Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you get the most from your talent.” ~ Nolan Ryan
“Success is not measured by what a person accomplishes,
but by the opposition they have encountered,
and by the courage with which they have maintained
the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
~ Charles Lindberg
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
“One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” ~ B.C. Forbes
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” ~ Alan Simpson
“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.” ~ French Proverb
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says ‘we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. ‘Spare me the grim litany of the ‘realist;’ give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.” ~ Colin Powell
“All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ~ Brian Tracy
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.” ~ Brian Tracy
“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.” ~ Stephen King
“Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” ~ Robert Albert Bloch
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ~ Pablo Picasso
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” ~ Joseph Sugarman
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~ Mark Twain