My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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