Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
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.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.