Quotes about Success
imaging has its own formula: 1) the goal, 2) the purpose, 3) prayer activity, 4) thoughtful planning, 5) innovative thinking, 6) enthusiasm, 7) organized hard work, and 8) always holding the image of success firmly in mind. If this formula is faithfully carried out, the desired results will be achieved despite all difficulties or setbacks.
— Norman Vincent Peale
mind can conceive and believe, and your heart desire, you can achieve.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.
— Norman Vincent Peale
A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.
— Norman Vincent Peale
There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;
— Norman Vincent Peale
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
— Og Mandino
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
— Og Mandino
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
— Og Mandino
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
— Og Mandino
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
— Og Mandino