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Success Quotes


"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."


"When your journey to success gets extremely tough, use your past accomplishments as your motivation to keep pushing forward. You did it in the past, and you can also do it again in the present, and in the future."


"If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they're fortunate and lucky beyond anyone's imagination. It remains a shock to me that I've had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I'd written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I've managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder."


"A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it."


"The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect."


"We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game."



"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."


"Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another-if we seek it."


"Stop confusing yourself and wasting your time doing everything you see or hear from other people. The core is to make time to find your niche, embrace it and run with it before your confusion create envy that will lead to resentment. Wake up! The whole situation undermines your your worth on this planet. Your divine calling and your divine purpose are both patiently waiting for you to come to senses."


"In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel un-comfortable."


"Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success."


"The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone."


"To be successful you must be willing to work hard, work smart, work consistently, and most importantly do all three simultaneously over a long period of time."


"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author."


"Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret."


"Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures."


"Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses."



"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."


"Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you."


"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success."


"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."


"Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that obstacles wear to pull you away from reaching your destination will become slippery!"


"No longer will I doubt my abilities...I will give myself a chance."



"I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up. Someone once told me that that was me low-balling my own creativity. That might or might not be the case. But still, on the story I am working on now, I do have some unresolved problem. It doesn't keep me awake at nights. I feel like when it comes down, it will be there..."


"Develop the winning edge, small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."


"Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter."


"Commitment is the foundation of focus."


"Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me."


"The universe likes speed, focus and dedication. Whatever we put our attention on, drives miracles towards us without much efforts."


"Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for."
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