If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

Don't chase success; chase excellence and success will come looking for you.