Success

“Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.”

Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power

“Man may be called a point of energy, a centre of application of divine Power.”

Horatio W. Dresser

The Power of Silence

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”

Orison Swett Marden

Pushing to the Front

“Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.”

Orison Swett Marden

Pushing to the Front

“The first principle of success is desire—knowing what you want.”

Robert Collier

The Secret of the Ages

“Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.”

Russell H. Conwell

Acres of Diamonds

“Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means.”

Russell H. Conwell

Acres of Diamonds

“Your wealth is too near to you. You are looking right over it.”

Russell H. Conwell

Acres of Diamonds

“The foundation of godliness and the foundation principle of success in business are both the same precisely.”

Russell H. Conwell

Acres of Diamonds

“The opportunity to get rich, to attain unto great wealth, is here in Philadelphia now, within the reach of almost every man and woman.”

Russell H. Conwell

Acres of Diamonds

“You will learn of the unlimited power that is yours.”

U.S. Andersen

Three Magic Words

“You can turn this power to work for you, here on earth, to make your life majestic and overflowing with good.”

U.S. Andersen

Three Magic Words

“Every efficient act is a success in itself, and if every act of your life is an efficient one, your whole life MUST be a success.”

Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

“Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

Brian Tracy

Effective Leadership

“Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, 'If it's to be, it's up to me.'”

Brian Tracy

Effective Leadership

“Do not wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it!”

Catherine Ponder

The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Claude M. Bristol

The Magic of Believing

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People

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

Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Excuse-itis, the failure disease, will ruin any chance for success.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”

Earl Nightingale

The Strangest Secret

“We are human in expression but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.”

Eric Butterworth

Discover the Power Within You

“Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.”

Eric Butterworth

In the Flow of Life

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”

Jim Rohn

The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

Jim Rohn

The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”

Maxwell Maltz

Psycho-Cybernetics

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich1937

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

“I will persist until I succeed.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“Big doors swing on little hinges.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”

Angela Duckworth

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

Angela Duckworth

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”

Angela Duckworth

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.”

Angela Duckworth

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”

Arianna Huffington

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success

“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“The power paradox is this: we rise in power and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst.”

Dacher Keltner

The Power Paradox

“In reality, we are divinity in disguise, and the gods and goddesses in embryo that are contained within us seek to be fully materialized.”

Deepak Chopra

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“Quality is a tremendous filter. Cream always rises, no matter how many cups of coffee you pour.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

Crush It!

“You cannot hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.”

Jack Canfield

The Success Principles

“Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.”

John C. Maxwell

Developing the Leader Within You

“All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere.”

John C. Maxwell

Failing Forward

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

John C. Maxwell

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

“Greatness is the result of visionaries who persevere, focus, believe, and prepare. It is a habit, not a birthright.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Greatness is what remains when that talent and vision meet adversity—and persist in the face of it.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Remember, no one has ever achieved anything truly great without going through extreme adversity.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Success is not defined by your bank account balance, your career title, or your impressive possessions. Success is defined by how deeply you love and are loved, how freely you give and receive from others, and how continuously you live in your passion.”

Lisa Nichols

Abundance Now

“It's never about the lack of money or time or anything else. It's about your internal game.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”

Martin Seligman

Authentic Happiness

“If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“Ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real, substantive relationships. Of a sustainable, long-term, and successful career.”

Ryan Holiday

Ego Is the Enemy

“Only 25 percent of job successes are predicted by IQ, while 75 percent are predicted by your optimism levels, your social support, and your ability to see stress as a challenge instead of a threat.”

Shawn Achor

The Happiness Advantage

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”

Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last

“Building trust requires nothing more than telling the truth.”

Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last

“Trust is like lubrication. It reduces friction and creates conditions much more conducive to performance.”

Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last

“Abundance can be destructive because it abstracts the value of things. The more we have, the less we seem to value what we've got.”

Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last

“Being authentic means we already know who we are and what we stand for.”

Simon Sinek

Start with Why

“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”

Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek

“The idea that you need to set realistic goals is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever encountered.”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book II, Ch. 4 (trans. James Legge)

“When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. When his work is done, the people say, 'Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!'”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 17 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“Deal with the difficult while it is still easy; deal with the big while it is still small.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 63 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 64 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 76