"Personal Success Quotes"



"Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings that you have and ultimately your actions as well."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anantha G. --- A.P, India



"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
Walter Savage Landor



"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces."
Joseph Sugarman



"Whatever you do in life or whatever talents you have been blessed with, give it your best performance. Performance is positive psychology; it is an art of communication, creativity, of contribution to society's happiness. Never do anything half-heartedly. Always perform to your heart's content."
Copyright © 2003 Ivona Evans



"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."
Arthur Ashe



"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
Leonardo da Vinci



"If we don't change the direction we are going, we are likely to end up where we are heading."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michaela Goad --- Dorset, United Kingdom



Every achiever I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me."
Robert Schuller



"With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life."
Doc Childre



"WIN, WIN, WIN in mind is the only solution of DEFEAT."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saif Rehman --- Chandigarh, India



"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
General George S. Patton



"One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything."
Scott Reed



"Always tell the truth, because when you tell the truth, you make it the other person's problem."
Michael Crichton --- Submitted by Christin Olsen
I read this quote in Michael Crichton's very good book 'Travels'



"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
Stephen Covey



"How you act is who you become."
Steve Chandler



"Success cannot be obtained without failure, for we are to experience the drought to appreciate the abundance."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Courtney Deon --- Western Cape, South Africa



"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."
Brian Adams



"Say only what you mean. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."
Don Miguel Ruiz



"Learning to use difficulties as a source for positive input is the key to success."
Dexter Yager --- Submitted by Will Scott --- Tennessee



"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
Anthony J. D'Angelo



"When we are angry about having a problem, we are choosing anger as a way of continuing not to look at whatever it is that is being brought to our attention."
Malcolm D. Muir



"Leaders, stuck in old cow paths, are destined to repeat the same mistakes. Effective change leaders recognize the need to avoid old paths, old ideas, and old plans."
Reed Markham, Ph.D --- Submitted by B.M. --- Utah



"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences."
Midori Koto



"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
Dr. Robert Anthony