Success and Achievement

Posted by Simpli Happy on August 30, 2024

Success and Achievement:

  • "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
  • "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller
  • "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson
  • "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." – Colin R. Davis
  • "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
  • "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett
  • "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney
  • "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." – Bruce Lee
  • "Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." – John Wooden
  • "To be successful, You must be unique, You must be so different that if people want what you have, they have to come to you to get it." – Walt Disney
  • "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
  • "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." – George Bernard Shaw
  • "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." – Bill Cosby
  • "Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph." – Zig Ziglar
  • "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." – Colin Powell
  • "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." – Albert Schweitzer
  • "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit." – Conrad Hilton
  • "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." – David Brinkley
  • "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." – Shiv Khera
  • "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser

Perseverance and Resilience:

  • "The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle." – Swami Sivananda
  • "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something." – Randy Pausch
  • "Perseverance is not a long race; it's many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot
  • "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." – Joseph Kennedy
  • "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." – James A. Michener
  • "You just can’t beat the person who never gives up." – Babe Ruth
  • "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
  • "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." – Julie Andrews
  • "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." – Albert Einstein
  • "Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose." – Josh Shipp
  • "Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce." – Vivian Komori
  • "The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying." – John C. Maxwell
  • "If you are going through hell, keep going." – Winston Churchill
  • "Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
  • "It always seems impossible until it is done." – Nelson Mandela
  • "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." – Robert G. Ingersoll
  • "Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs." – Victor Hugo
  • "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Positivity and Optimism:

  • "Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." – Roy T. Bennett
  • "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." – Helen Keller
  • "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me." – David Bailey
  • "Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior." – Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day." – Alice Morse Earle
  • "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." – William James
  • "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." – Elbert Hubbard
  • "The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." – Robert H. Schuller
  • "Keep a smile on your face. Keep a spring in your step." – Joel Osteen
  • "A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you." – Joyce Meyer
  • "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." – Winston Churchill
  • "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." – Marcus Aurelius
  • "The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." – Charles Dickens
  • "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." – Willie Nelson
  • "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." – Joyce Meyer
  • "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." – Mark Twain
  • "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." – Joyce Brothers
  • "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." – Matt Cameron

Courage and Risk-Taking:

  • "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." – Ambrose Redmoon
  • "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." – Muhammad Ali
  • "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." – Mark Zuckerberg
  • "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." – Mark Twain
  • "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky
  • "Leap, and the net will appear." – John Burroughs
  • "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." – Christopher Columbus
  • "Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair
  • "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
  • "Do not be afraid to take big steps. You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps." – David Lloyd George
  • "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." – Pierre Corneille
  • "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." – John Wayne
  • "Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." – Unknown
  • "Courage is finding the inner strength to press on despite outside resistance." – Unknown
  • "Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." – Robert F. Kennedy
  • "You don’t have to be fearless. Just be sincere." – Gabby Douglas
  • "Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." – Babe Ruth
  • "Courage is like a muscle; we strengthen it with use." – Ruth Gordon
  • "Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail, dare to succeed." – Unknown

Self-Belief and Confidence:

  • "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." – Christian D. Larson
  • "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "You are more capable than you know, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." – A.A. Milne (paraphrased)
  • "Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt
  • "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." – Peter T. McIntyre
  • "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." – Buddha
  • "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
  • "Self-confidence is the memory of success." – David Storey
  • "Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude." – Michelle Obama
  • "With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." – Dalai Lama
  • "The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence." – Blake Lively
  • "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." – A.A. Milne
  • "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
  • "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." – Mark Victor Hansen
  • "Self-trust is the first secret of success." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Confidence is the companion of success." – Unknown
  • "Whatever you believe about yourself on the inside is what you will manifest on the outside." – Unknown
  • "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." – Henry David Thoreau
  • "I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." – Jimmy Dean

Time Management and Productivity:

  • "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." – Stephen Covey
  • "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
  • "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." – William Penn
  • "Lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin
  • "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." – Michael Altshuler
  • "You may delay, but time will not." – Benjamin Franklin
  • "A year from now you may wish you had started today." – Karen Lamb
  • "The future depends on what you do today." – Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." – Theophrastus
  • "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
  • "Forever is composed of nows." – Emily Dickinson
  • "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." – Michael Altshuler
  • "Time isn't the main thing, it's the only thing." – Miles Davis
  • "The key is in not spending time, but in investing it." – Stephen R. Covey
  • "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?" – Henry David Thoreau
  • "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
  • "You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." – Charles F. Kettering
  • "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." – Napoleon Bonaparte
  • "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done." – Bruce Lee
  • "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." – Margaret Peters

Leadership:

  • "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." – Ronald Reagan
  • "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." – Warren Bennis
  • "A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." – Lao Tzu
  • "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs
  • "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." – Ralph Nader
  • "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." – Arnold H. Glasow
  • "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." – John C. Maxwell
  • "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." – Tony Blair
  • "Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge." – Simon Sinek
  • "True leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders." – Tom Peters
  • "The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." – Henry Kissinger
  • "The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision." – Ken Blanchard
  • "Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished." – Lisa Cash Hanson
  • "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes." – Margaret Wheatley
  • "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." – Theodore Roosevelt
  • "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet." – Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh
  • "Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them." – Diogenes
  • "A leader’s attitude is like a thermostat for the place they work. Their attitude determines the climate, the climate determines the culture, and the culture determines the productivity." – John C. Maxwell
  • "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." – Eleanor Roosevelt

Purpose and Passion:

  • "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain
  • "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it." – Buddha
  • "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." – Robert Byrne
  • "It is never too late to be what you might have been." – George Eliot
  • "Purpose is the reason you journey. Passion is the fire that lights your way." – Unknown
  • "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life." – Mark Twain
  • "You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny." – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
  • "The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln
  • "When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny." – Ralph Buchanan
  • "Chase your passion, not your pension." – Denis Waitley
  • "Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it." – Buddha
  • "Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." – Howard Thurman
  • "Someone with passion makes everyone around them want to listen." – Elizabeth George
  • "A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position." – John C. Maxwell
  • "Make your life a mission – not an intermission." – Arnold H. Glasow
  • "Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams." – Donovan Bailey
  • "Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up." – Isabelle Lafleche
  • "Rest in reason; move in passion." – Khalil Gibran
  • "There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive." – Oprah Winfrey

Growth and Learning:

  • "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi
  • "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
  • "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." – Albert Einstein
  • "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." – Nelson Mandela
  • "The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice." – Brian Herbert
  • "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia
  • "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." – Dr. Seuss
  • "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin
  • "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." – Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." – Benjamin Franklin
  • "Learning never exhausts the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci
  • "The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." – B.B. King
  • "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." – Vernon Sanders Law
  • "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." – Abigail Adams
  • "In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn." – Phil Collins
  • "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
  • "Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning." – William Arthur Ward
  • "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – William Butler Yeats
  • "Learning is a journey, not a destination." – Anonymous

Gratitude and Contentment:

  • "Gratitude turns what we have into enough." – Aesop
  • "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." – Cicero
  • "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." – Melody Beattie
  • "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." – Willie Nelson
  • "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." – Robert Brault
  • "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." – Aesop
  • "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." – Eckhart Tolle
  • "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more." – Melody Beattie
  • "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." – Marcel Proust
  • "Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone." – Gertrude Stein
  • "Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." – Henry Ward Beecher
  • "Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." – Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • "Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants." – Epictetus
  • "Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." – William Arthur Ward
  • "Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude." – Joseph Wood Krutch
  • "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." – Kurt Vonnegut
  • "The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." – William James
  • "A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles." – Unknown

Mindfulness and Self-Care:

  • "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." – Buddha
  • "Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live." – Jim Rohn
  • "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." – Anne Lamott
  • "Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you." – Katie Reed
  • "To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life." – Jill Bolte Taylor
  • "Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel." – Eleanor Brown
  • "Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing." – Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde
  • "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your wellbeing." – Renée Peterson Trudeau
  • "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." – Anne Lamott
  • "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." – Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • "Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others." – Christopher Germer
  • "Do something today that your future self will thank you for." – Sean Patrick Flanery
  • "Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that." – Sylvia Boorstein
  • "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." – William S. Burroughs
  • "Be kinder to yourself and then let your kindness flood the world." – Pema Chodron
  • "Wellness is not a one-time event, it is a way of life." – Unknown
  • "To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." – Robert Morely
  • "The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment." – Thich Nhat Hanh

Adversity and Overcoming Failure:

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
  • "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford
  • "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." – Henry Ford
  • "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." – William Arthur Ward
  • "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." – Napoleon Hill
  • "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas A. Edison
  • "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." – Molière
  • "Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe." – Sumner Redstone
  • "Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." – Nelson Mandela
  • "It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." – Bill Gates
  • "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one." – Elbert Hubbard
  • "Sometimes by losing a battle, you find a new way to win the war." – Donald Trump
  • "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." – Truman Capote
  • "In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail." – Anonymous
  • "The phoenix must burn to emerge." – Janet Fitch
  • "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." – Viktor E. Frankl
  • "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." – Roy T. Bennett
  • "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson