Some Of My Favorite Success Quotes

Most people are afraid of failure, they suffer emotional and financial stress when things don't work out as expected.  This first quote from Thomas Watson is one that I have found to be very valuable.  When I learned to view failure as part of the success process, everything changed for me.

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success."

– Thomas J. Watson

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal"

--Coach John Wooden

Here is another quote that I found to be absolutely true:

"If it's going to be, it's up to ME."

--Robert H. Schuller

This Quote stresses the importance of educating yourself in order to achieve success.

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.

--Jim Rohn

Does the following quote remind you of any of your friends or family?

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

--Earl Nightingale

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

–Dale Carnegie

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

–– Bruce Barton

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.  Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.

--Jim Rohn

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

--Vincent T. Lombardi

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

--Ben Sweetland

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

--Mario Andretti

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

--Benjamin Disraeli

"God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest."

--Swedish Proverb