The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.

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.