Quotes About Success:
What You Think and Believe
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These quotes about success are the inner beliefs of many great people who have found their own truths about life. It's true that what you feed your mind can affect your beliefs... and your entire life.

If you truly want to achieve more in your world, then take the time to read these quotes about success... ponder them... and adopt the ones that ring true for you.

What you think about, what you believe, is what comes to pass. Believe that you are worthy of having and being all that you desire. That is the first step to obtaining your goals.

The key to success is believing that you have the power and the personal courage inside of you to achieve all of your dreams.

To further your goals, it also helps to have quotations such as these handy at all times, so be sure to visit our Books of Quotations page too and see we recommend for reading excellent quotes about success.

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it, nothing great was ever achieved."

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Famous American author, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

~Anatole France

"Nothing can stop man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

~Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)
Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776).

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time."

"The big secret of life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

"Everyone that I have ever known that has been tremendously successful, was successful because they did what they loved. Nobody, including myself, was trying to make money."

~Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
Winfrey is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in the history of television. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years.

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

"I've always believed that if you've put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly, because I know if I do, than I can expect half-hearted results."

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen."

~Michael Jordan (1963 - )
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. He is considered the greatest basketball player of all time, and and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of a another."

~Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)
Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor and innovator who is credited in the United States with the invention of the telephone.

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

~Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Franklin was one of the most important and influential Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and a musical instrument. (Source: wikipedia.org)

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

~Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)Gibran was an American artist, poet and writer who was born in Lebanon, but spent most of his life in the United States.

"Do not think of today's failures, but of the success. That may come tomorrow. If you have set yourself a difficult task, you will succeed if you perservere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles."

~Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Helen Adams Keller was a completely deaf and blind American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to graduate from college and the fascinating story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language can be found in these books about Helen Keller.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead."

~Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
She was was an American novelist and the author of "Little Women" 1868. The novel was loosely based on her own childhood with her three sisters.

"It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"Make your work be in keeping with your purpose."

~Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

~Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Descartes was a highly influential French philospher, mathematician, writer, and scientist. He is also known as the Father of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Mathematics. Much of subsequent Western philosophy is a reaction to his writings.

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"Action is the fundamental key to all succes."

~Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)
Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His final works were a mixture of styles, his means of expression in constant flux until the end of his life. After his death, his style of painting was termed neo-expressionism, a style of modern painting that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.

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