Quotes about Success
You can't help people become winners unless they want to win. Champions become champions from within, not from without.
— John Maxwell
Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally. They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive attitude. At the very least, these things keep their personal momentum going. At their very best, they make every day a masterpiece.
— John Maxwell
Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.
— John Maxwell
If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.
— John Maxwell
Most people tend to underestimate the time it takes to achieve something of value, but to be successful, you have to be willing to pay your dues. James Watt spent twenty years laboring to perfect his steam engine. William Harvey labored night and day for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body. And it took another twenty-five years for the medical profession to acknowledge he was right.
— John Maxwell
You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.
— John Maxwell
Self-discipline is a quality that is won through practice. Psychologist Joseph Mancusi noted, "Truly successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Real success lies in experiencing fear or aversion and acting in spite of it.
— John Maxwell
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
— John Maxwell
The Unrealistic Expectation Trap For some reason, many people think everything in life should be easy, and when they find out that achievement takes effort, they give up. But success takes hard work.
— John Maxwell
With hope, failure is a skipping stone. Without hope, failure is a tombstone.
— John Maxwell
To put significance in our stories, we must also take action. Being passive may feel safe. If you do nothing, nothing can go wrong. But while inaction cannot fail, it cannot succeed either. We can wait, and hope, and wish, but if we do, we miss the stories our lives could be.
— John Maxwell
Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.
— John Maxwell