37 MORE Success Quotes

I thought it was time to share 37 MORE Success Quotes...

Quite a few folks commented on the last 37, so I think that's a good number. I've tried to attribute these to the correct Author/Source but if there are any which I got wrong, please let me know.

If you have any personal favorites, please share them. I would love to read them. Here we go...

1. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill

2. “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
Henry Ford

3. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso

4. “Success is not a destination. It’s a journey.”
Zig Ziglar

5. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

6. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt

7. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Demosthenes

8. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard

9. “Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.”
Chuck Norris

10. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

11. “If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."
Louise L. Hay

12. “If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."
Brendan Francis

13. “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
Marcus Aurelius

14. “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.”
Carl Schurz

15. “One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.”
Jack Canfield

16. “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
Alexander Graham Bell

17. “The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.”
Confucius

18. “I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.”
Sylvester Stallone

19. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
William Feather

20. “One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.”
Wayne Gretzky

21. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michelangelo

22. “Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.”
Proverbs 4:23, The Bible

23. “Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
Jack Welch

24. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley

25. “People are anxious to improve their circumstances but unwilling to improve themselves, they therefore remain bound."
James Allen

26. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
Jon Bon Jovi

27. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
Brian Tracy

28. “Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.”
Jonatan Mårtensson

29. “There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em..."
Kevin Welch

30. “To be successful, one must take chances.”
Willie Stargell

31. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”
John Foster Dulles

32. “To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova

33. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”
Conrad Hilton

34. “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”
Bob Proctor

35. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu

36. "We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside."
Joel Osteen

37. “That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the 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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

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If I Had Only Known

There used to be this place in San Antonio called Playland Park. It was like a little Disneyland. Okay a very, very little Disneyland. But for someone growing up in San Antonio in the 60’s it was so very, very cool!

It had this huge wooden roller coaster. I can’t remember the name of it but it was BIG and scary for a little kid. I loved riding that roller coaster. I actually loved all the sounds and smells and noises of that place…Playland Park.

It was a part of me and my life and my memories. As I grew older I would go there with family and friends and ride that BIG, scary roller coaster. The older I got, the further back I moved in the cars on the coaster. Then one day I was in the last car. When you reached the top of the big hill, everyone would throw their hands up in the air and scream and act like idiots as the coaster raced to the bottom, leaving your stomachs and your cares somewhere far behind you.

I loved that place and swore I would take my kids there as often as I could just like my parents had done.

I remember the last time I was there. I had been fishing at the coast and came home. I learned my family was at Playland Park so I went there to meet them and have some fun. As we were leaving for the night, several members of my family wanted to ride the roller coaster one more time and get some pictures doing it.

I was tired from the trip and told them we would do it next time. We all went home not knowing that would be the last night Playland Park would ever be open. It never opened again and that BIG, scary roller coaster was torn down and sold.

I’ve often wondered why I didn’t ride that BIG, scary roller coaster just one more time. I always tell myself “If I had only known…”

There are a lot of “If I had only known…” times in our lives.

All of us have them. They may not include roller coasters or Playland Park but they may include seeing a friend or loved one for the last time.

They may include the last time your son lets you hold his hand.

They may include the last time your little girl is a princess.

They all are times we wish we had again.

It’s a human experience we all share…”If I had only known…”

Live today…treat your family…talk to your friends…take in the sights and sounds and smells…as if this were one of those moments…

“If I had only known…”

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Twitter & The Meaning Of Life

Sometimes we get caught-up in things which really aren’t that important when you look at the big picture of life.

I am basically a positive person but sometimes I am tempted to go off on a negative rant.

That almost happened this morning when I was watching the news. I saw a story about Lady Gaga moving into the position of Most Followers on Twitter.

I started to become indignant and then I remembered, in the whole scheme of things, how unimportant Twitter and Lady Gaga and the “Most Followed” really are.

You know what’s important?

LIFE!

That’s really important. Not just life, but living life. Determining that no matter what hand you’ve been dealt, you’re going to come out on top…with a smile.

MY WIFE!

She’s a great person who has stuck with me through thick and thin…And believe me when I tell you there has been a lot more thin than thick. She causes most of my smiles and a lot of my gray hair.

MY CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN!

Tyrants that they sometimes seem to be, they are still my progeny and the way I touch the future. I call them CHAMPIONS and my Buddies.

MY FRIENDS!

Online or offline doesn’t matter, a friend is a friend, and we all need friends. The best way to have friends is to be a friend. I thank God for my friends! That brings me to…

GOD!

HE brings meaning to meaningless lives. HE actually is 1^st on my list of what’s important, and coincidentally HE also has the most followers. But as a writer, I like the way this all flowed. J

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P.S.

If I would have allowed myself to be negative…which I didn’t…I probably would have written something like this…

Twitter and the Meaning of Life

I heard today that Lady Gaga recently moved ahead of Britney Spears as the most followed account on Twitter. Being that I’m not a “little monster” this didn’t nearly impress me as much as when @aplusk pulled off the trouncing of CNN.

In fact, it didn’t impress me at all.

Over the past year I’ve seen the changes @Biz and others have made to Twitter as a sign of things to come. Things most of the “regular” users of Twitter have had to swallow, like one more dose of poison, so the “STARS” can attain their lofty heights in the rankings based on number of followers.

Things which have kept the rest of us mere mortals firmly anchored to the ground, gazing skyward at the loftiness of the Twitter “STARS” knowing, that as mere mortals we can never attain such loftiness.

@Biz and his cronies can make any changes to Twitter they want to make. After all, they started Twitter. We didn’t.

We just started using it. We just started spreading it, virally; spreading the word of this cool little social networking and microblogging service that could be pretty awesome…Spreading the word through emails and texts and blog posts and word-of-mouth.

We didn’t do anything at all to get the little, baby blue “T” at the bottom of most television commercials you see today. Lady Gaga did.

With the ascendancy of the new “Queen of Twitter” life has taken on a new meaning.

Well, actually life hasn’t, Twitter has.

Twitter has become even less important to me now than it ever was. I see a certain banality in it which I see growing exponentially. The new “Queen” is simply a sign of what the “controllers” of Twitter want for Twitter…

STARS!

As for all of us nonSTARS, we can still play with Twitter. We can still use Twitter. We can still promote Twitter. We can still help grow the net worth of Twitter…as long as we stay in our place…nonSTARS.

GOD save the Queen!

I CAN

What are you believing about yourself, right now? Are you believing you can…or you can’t? Do you think you have what it takes to succeed?

Someone once said, “Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.” Are you able to do better than “good enough?” Are you able to keep trying, even when you’re losing?

You know what? Sometimes we lose. That’s just the plain truth…we lose. BUT we are not losers. Every loss helps you become the winner you are destined to be.

Michael Jordan put it this way, “I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

WOW!

Those are the words of the man many say is the best who ever played his sport. He says he succeeds because of the failures he’s experienced.

That is a key we all need to learn. Failures are important to success. If you give up and quit after one failure then you are defeated.

If you learn from that one failure and go on with your life then you aren’t defeated. You’re not defeated until you give up and quit.

Have you failed 300 times or 9,000 times? Michael Jordan did and he just kept on playing. He kept on getting better. He kept on learning what worked and what didn’t work. He kept on believing he could win. He kept on believing “I can!”

If you don’t already believe it, start right now.

Say, “I CAN!”

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Twitter Powers

“The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.” Roger Bannister

In my last post I gave you some great websites and blogs to follow and learn from to help you get a strong foundation on Twitter. In this post I am going to show you Twitter Powers and begin the “how to get Twitter Powers” process.

Remember what it was like in high school or college? Learning was actually a lot of reading. Well, to learn about Twitter Powers you have to start learning from some real Twitter Powers. You need to study what they’ve done…and what they’re doing…NOW!

This will mean doing some reading. Are you up to it? If so let’s start.

These Twitter Powers are by no means the only people on Twitter you can learn from nor are they the only ones you should learn from. BUT, if you study them and what they have done and put some of it into practice…POOF…you’ll be the Twitter Star we talked about last time.

By the way, POOF stands for:

P – practice until you get it

O – occupy your space on Twitter

O – overcome every obstacle and failure

F – finish on top

We’ll spend more time on POOF in my next post, now to the Twitter Powers.

@williger is a Twitter Power you may have overlooked. He has quietly built a following in the millions for his Twitter accounts. His personal account @williger currently has over 160k followers. He uses every tool at his disposal to accomplish extraordinary Social Media feats.

Here is one of his videos which went viral:

It’s called “Twitter DM lament - I won't join your Spymaster Mafia!” and it is hilarious. You want to keep him in view and learn as you do.

@CiaoBella50 is a Twitter Power who adds wit and Twitter expertise to her 85k followers. Although she is "just a girl with a dream" you can learn a lot from this dream-girl and her blog, Ciao Bella.

@Scobleizer is a Twitter Power with 123k followers who understands what being a Geek is all about. In fact he’s interviewed more than 3200 of them. He says “Make every tweet magic.” He also understands using video. He recently had 500,000 views of a 17 minute long video. There are many "teachable moments" with him. Just for grins, check out his Profile on Google.

@GuyKawasaki is a Twitter Power who has grown his following to over 232k and he’s done it organically. He gives amazing tips on his blog “How To Change The World.” He also started Alltop which is basically an aggregator of all things Hot in "Social" and "Tech". Keep him on your radar.

@ProBlogger is another great example of a Twitter Power. He actually makes a living from blogging and tweeting and all things Social, and has more than 96k followers. I'm sure you can learn a few tricks by studying what he does.

@ModelSupplies is a Twitter Power who has grown her following to over 58k by providing great and interesting content as well as conversations with her followers. And if you need more twitter tips, you have to read her blog. Here is an excellent example, "How To Get Listed On Follow Friday Twitter Lists." She is well worth learning from.

This is a good start. Visit these Twitter Powers and learn from them all you can. I will have more Twitter Powers for you next time and we will go over POOF.

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Tweet Night

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'” Charles M. Schulz

Love it! That quote by the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip hits home on so many levels. The one I'm going to talk about here is trying to be a Twitter Star overnight.

I'm sure you've read the DM's (direct messages for all you twitter neophytes) touting "Get 1000's of Followers - Click Here". When you click on the senders profile you notice they have 129 followers. I guess they haven't done the "Click Here" part, yet.

Like all things good, you may have to wait a while to become Twitter Star. Unless your name is Beyonce, or Ashton, or Ellen, or Kardashian you probably aren't going to set the Twitterverse on fire overnight.

But you can practice a few things to leapfrog over the rest of us mere mortals and really put your Twitter life on steroids. I'll start with a few in this post and continue with more in upcoming posts.

The first and most important thing is to understand the rules you must play by. The first are called the Twitter Terms of Service (TOS) and you can find them here: http://twitter.com/tos?PHPSESSID=debec4ce1124da18c632a97423a6fa5e

Next, you need to learn about Twitter Jail and how important it is to stay out of it. Believe me, as someone who has been there...more than once...you don't want to wind up there. My friend Dr. Udi Schlessinger has written some great posts on the subject and that brings me to the next point.

Read some blogs from people who are succeeding at what you want to do...excel in the Twitterverse. Udi is one such person and his blog is here: http://www.industryreview.org/

The post I mentioned earlier on Twitter Jail can be found here: http://www.industryreview.org/social-media/twitter-jail-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma

A must visit for the best blogs about Social Media, Twitter, Facebook and getting followers is http://www.followers.biz . This is one of the most comprehensive and user-friendly sites I've found and although it is currently being revamped, it hosts a wealth of information and is a definite Bookmark worthy site.

It was created by my friend and a guy who understands Social Media Marketing, Larry Wentz. If you wonder whether Larry knows what he's doing, visit http://twitter.com/LarryWentz and see for yourself.

In my next post I'll give some more essential blogs to follow and creative steps to be the Twitter Star you always knew you were. Until then, Tweet Night!

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37 GREAT Success Quotes

I know many of us spend “some” time thinking about success on a regular basis. Several people have asked me for more of the Success Quotes I mention from time to time. I have put together 37 Success Quotes which I really like and muse on.

They are in no particular order, so #1 isn’t necessarily the best nor is #37 the worst. Please don’t complain about where your favorite is on the list…they are random.

I know there are many more I could have included but this list also is not exhaustive. It’s simply 37 Success Quotes which I like. If you have a quote you like on the subject of success, share it. I’d love to see some I have never read. Here goes…

1. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success."
   Thomas J. Watson
   
   
2. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
   Bill Cosby
   
   
3. “Success is dependent on effort.”
   Sophocles
   
   
4. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted”
   David Bly
   
   
5. "Success is a journey, not a destination."
   Ben Sweetland
   
   
6. “If there is no wind, row.”
   Lain Proverb
   
   
7. "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
   Dale Carnegie
   
   
8. “A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.”
   Jan Christiaan Smuts
   
   
9. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
   Jim Rohn
   
   
10. "God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest."
    Swedish Proverb
    
    
11. “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
    Sven Goran Eriksson
    
    
12. “When you get an insight or inspiration, do something about it in twenty-four hours – or the odds are against you ever acting on it.”
    Bill Glass
    
    
13. “For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
    James Allen
    
    
14. “There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
    Christopher Morley
    
    
15. “Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
    Arnold H. Glasow
    
    
16. "Success doesn't come to you…you go to it."
    Marva Collins
    
    
17. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
    Napoleon Hill
    
    
18. “Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
    David Frost
    
    
19. "Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us."
    George Allen
    
    
20. “No one, no thing, no situation can stop you. The power to succeed is within.”
    Bille Baty

21. “Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”
    Arnold H. Glasgow

22. “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.”
    Winston Churchill

23. “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
    Albert Einstein

24. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be”
    George Sheehan

25. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
    Herman Cain

26. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
    Mark Twain

27. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    
    

28. “We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.”
    Rudolf Dreikurs

29. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
    Benjamin Disraeli

30. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
    Mario Andretti

31. “You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.”
    Jerome Bruner

32. “Victory comes not by strength, wisdom or riches but by getting up again, each time we stumble and fall.”
    Bille Baty

33. "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
    Phillip Adams

34. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
    David Brinkley

35. “Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.”
    Neil Kendall

36. “Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
    Ross Perot

37. “Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.”
    Paul J. Meyer

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