On Defining Your Own Success
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
- “Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.” — Dalai Lama
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” — Bo Bennett
- “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” — Vera Wang
- “Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.” — Marilyn vos Savant
- “Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.” — David McCullough
On Hard Work and Discipline
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King
- “Success is dependent on effort.” — Sophocles
- “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
- “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
- “You don’t have to be extreme. Just consistent.” — Unknown
- “Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements.” — John C. Maxwell
- “Your daily habits are your life in miniature.” — Unknown
- “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Abraham Lincoln
On Mindset
- “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
- “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” — Zig Ziglar
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
- “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” — W. Clement Stone
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
On Action and Momentum
- “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
- “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle
- “Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” — Frederick Wilcox
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
- “Ideas without action are worthless.” — Harvey Mackay
- “Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg
On the Journey
- “Success is a journey, not a destination.” — Arthur Ashe
- “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
- “Every expert was once a beginner.” — Unknown
- “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” — Jon Bon Jovi
- “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” — Unknown
- “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” — Tony Robbins
- “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” — Zig Ziglar
- “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A.A. Milne
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
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