Quotes about Success

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind®. Another Quadrant II activity is to take the time and initiative to develop a mission statement based on principles. A good mission statement is the key that effective people use to discern which things are important—

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

least some of these goals should reflect Quadrant II activities. Ideally, these weekly goals would be tied to the longer-term goals you have identified in conjunction with your personal mission statement. But even if you haven't written your mission

He realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

Build inner character first—private victory before public victory.

People can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success. "Success," said IBM founder T. J. Watson

It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).