If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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