Success!, Various Quotes - Empower Yourself! Options

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will only include best of the best authors on this subject here:
Quotes from my No.1 mentor and personal motivator - Anthony Robbins:

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.' Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgement.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving,
1. You're willing to take massive action,
2. You notice what's working or not, and
3. You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming

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Quotes from Brian Tracy

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

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

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

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

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling confidence and personal power.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

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Quotes from Napoleon Hill:

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the wonlost record of the referee.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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Strangely enough, one I find useful throughout life is this: "Crom, lord of the mound, gives man but two gifts, life and will." If nothing else, the epxerience of this life and the power (will) to affect it as we choose is the greatest gift, which an unfortunately high number of people squander on simply "existing" instead of actually "living/"

“The point of Manual is not to grant you success. If you do, you will forever be under his dictatorship. The entire reason why Manual exists is to not grant you success but illustrate the means of success.”
~Pook

“Foresight teaches gently; error teaches brutally”
~Pook

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

– Oprah Winfrey

Would this have anything to do with the concept of willpower ?
I read a book "The power of your subconcuious mind" by Joseph Murphy once , and it helped me during an exam.
Do you know it ?

Would this have anything to do with the concept of willpower ?

yes!

"Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality"
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" - Nap. Hill

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So I'm not of course.That's a relief.By the way what authors do you recommend if it comes to willpower ?
I real appreciate the quote.
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By the way could you help me , I would like to aquire wealth using willpower and I'm not sure i'm doing it right , but so far I have been visualising the sum written on a bank account and what i would like to do with the money , well ?

~ Succeess and motivation quotes only in here please. Start a new topic if you like. Kinjo

Sorry Kinjo , won't happen again ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/oops.gif)