Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orison Swett Marden

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

Orison Swett Marden

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Orison Swett Marden

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Orison Swett Marden

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Orison Swett Marden

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Orison Swett Marden

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Orison Swett Marden

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Orison Swett Marden

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Novak Djokovic

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

Novak Djokovic

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

Norman Vincent Peale

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Norman Vincent Peale

Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

Norman Vincent Peale

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Norman Vincent Peale

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Norman Vincent Peale

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

Norman Vincent Peale

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Ellen Glasgow

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Ellen Glasgow

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Ellen Glasgow

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Eric Ries

What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.