Daily Quote's to Ponder

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Success is simple. Do what''s right, the right way, at the right time.

Don''t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Success is not built on success. It''s built on failure. It''s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ''Get up early, work late - and strike oil.''

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

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

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that''s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It''s all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

There''s a way to do it better - find it.

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I''m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I''ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you''d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it''s hard work, almost harder once you''re successful because you''ve got to maintain it.

When one side benefits more than the other, that''s a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the ''60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show''s success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I''ve had.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don''t know how to feel good about the work you''re doing or the life you''re leading.

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can''t be happy as a success, it''s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That''s what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

There''s two kinds of rock n'' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there''s when you''re in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream''s taken away from you even before it happens.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I''ve been blessed to be somebody that''s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it''s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I''m saying, and it feels good ''cause it''s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

My success isn''t a result of arrogance - it''s a result of belief.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

I''ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one''s origins and one''s final achievement.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

I want to build a legacy at the WWE, but I definitely want to continue to grow the Bella Empire. I want it to go beyond the ring. I would love to be a motivational speaker.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It''s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others'' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ''permanently'' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

Of course the success of A Boy''s Own Story took me utterly off guard.

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it''s possible to achieve the American dream.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I''ve had quite a bit of success but I feel that I''m just the same person as I always was.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

If you think you can do it, you can.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it''s a good job that will continue.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

True leaders don''t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

I''m not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

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.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it''s time for America''s corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master''s programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

Do you want to know who you are? Don''t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person''s point of view and see things from that person''s angle as well as from your own.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.