success

"My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."

"Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide."

"The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions."

"God rewards every act of obedience to His Will."

"Time is a great teacher, but Cosmic Ordering is a great provider."

"Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

"If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it."

"I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself."

"I can’t can’t, but since I can’t, I clearly can."

"'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success."

"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."

"In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life."

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

"There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today."