Ashok Chandran

A COLLECTION OF SUCCESS QUOTES

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations. They think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this bit, and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
-Robert Collier

If you desire, intensely, and you act upon it, then everything stands within your reach.
-Unknown

Progress is impossible without changes, and those who can never change their opinion can neither change the world nor change themselves.
-George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge and investing in yourself is power.
-Dravasanthy

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
-Robert Browning

Action does not always lead to happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.
-Napoleon Hill

Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
-Henry J. Kaiser

Better do things yourself than hope they will be done.
-Scottish Proverb

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
-Walter Chrysler

So how do you love yourself? First of all and most important: Cease all criticism of yourself and others. Accept yourself as you are. When you approve of yourself, your changes become positive. Everyone in your world is a reflection of your beliefs. Don’t blame others; change your beliefs. Be gentle, kind and patient with yourself. Praise yourself as much as you can.
-Louise L. Hay

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
-Malcom Forbes

You rarely achieve more than you expect.
-Carol Grosse

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone.
-Unknown

If you want success just do what you love and believe in, and success will come naturally.
-David Frost

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-Abraham Lincoln

To succeed be a “how” thinker, not an “if” thinker.
-Unknown

The mind is the limit. As long as you can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100%.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
-Joyce Brothers, Ph.D.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
-Louis L’Amour

Success…is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
-Wilferd A. Peterson

Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
-Zig Ziglar

We have a problem. “Congratulations.” But it’s a tough problem. “Then double congratulations.”
-W. Clement Stone

If you wait for perfect conditions you will never get anything done.
-Mike Seseed

There are powers inside of you, which if you could discover and use would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
-Orison Swett Marden

Man alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; Man alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
-Napoleon Hill

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Goethe

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
-Orison Swett Marden

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
-Vince Lombardi

All of our dreams can come true, if we adopt a sincere passion to fulfill them.
-Gary Thomas Vojtesak

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Herman Cain

The first law of success is concentration, to bend all your energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
-William Mathews

Anything you desire to do, you can do. Anything!’
-Dr. Wayne Dyer

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau

Do it now. Then it’s done.
-Unknown

Anybody with a little guts can make it, He can make anything he wants to make of himself.
-Willie Shoemaker

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
-C. Schurz

There is no failure. Only feedback.
-Robert Allen

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you are fired with an enthusiastic idea and you allow it to take hold and dominate your thoughts you will find that new worlds open for you. -Norman Vincent Peale

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln

Any individual can be what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets himself steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon it’s attainment.
-J. Hermanj Randall

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
-Unknown

Keep working behind your dreams to make as many of them become real as you can.
-Frank W. Woolworth

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
-Mae West

The thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you’ve got - your everything.
-Duke P. Kahanamoku

The only way to get finished is to get started.
-Melissa Mull

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief there can be no successful outcome.
-William James

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
-Marilyn vos Savant

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-Richard Bach

People become really remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Success demands singleness of purpose.
-Vince Lombardi

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
-Denis E. Waitley

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-Henry Ford

If you really want do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
-Unknown

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
-Dale Carnegie

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Gagehot

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
-Norman Vincent Peale

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
-Thomas Edison

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
-Scott Adams (Dilbert)

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
-Thomas Edison

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.
-Og Mandino

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
-Jonathan Winters

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you’ll never make it.
-Diana Nyad

The more passionate your desire is, the more quickly the thing you want will spring up in your life.
-Mark Fisher

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
-Napoleon Hill

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s your determination and commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
-Mario Andretti

No one can cheat you of ultimate success but yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
-Charles M. Schwab

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
-Henry Ford

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.
-Yogi Berra

Where there is nothing to lose by trying and everything to gain if successful, by all means try. Do it now.
-W. Clement Stone

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
-Sir Edward Appleton

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
-Bill Cosby

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
-Henry ford

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
-Henry David Thoreau

Imagine yourself, as you would like to be, doing what you want to do, and each day take one step towards your dream. One morning you will find that you are the person you dreamed of, doing what you wanted to do.
-Donna Levine

Let your heart soar as high as it will.
Refuse to be average.
–A.W. Tozer

Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that.
Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily
unbearable, and we need to be taught that.
–Rabbi Harold Kushner