success

"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful."

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."

"Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!"

"If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to."

"To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works hard, then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to be successful."

"Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements."

"You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do."

"Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!"

"When you think a positive thought, you become positive."

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."

"Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential."

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

"Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less."

"No one can take the shot for you."

"Today is the only day in which we have any power."

"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."

"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it."

"You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that."

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"