Quotes about Success

People can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success. "Success," said IBM founder T. J. Watson

It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).

It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

What can you get done today, tomorrow, or next week that will bring you that much closer to your final destination? See if you can project a bit and schedule just the first three steps on your list into your planning system. The rest will come later. Then go for it! Move ahead each day with the vision of that goal in mind and keep pressing forward.

There is no effectiveness without discipline and there is no discipline without character. And there is no character without first starting and asking questions.

Success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

Define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.