Appreciation Quotes
To be successful you must be willing to work hard, work smart, work consistently, and most importantly do all three simultaneously over a long period of time.
Goals are the result of bringing your dreams, ideas, and ideals into a real and examinable form by giving them permanence in written form.
They are probably the single most important deciding factor for long-term success, and your ability to set and make plans to achieve them is the master skill to your successful future.
Long-term goals provide focus, but inspiration comes from the accomplishment of short-term goals.
In order to be successful you must decide to be intentional about what you do, how you live, and who you are becoming.
Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.
Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it’s impossible to persevere.
The person you grow to become in pursuit of a goal makes the journey a memorable experience.
Life isn’t about what you have, it’s about who you are.
Select carefully and continuously review your circle of influence, and be unapologetic about who you exclude.
Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times.
Don’t be naïve – appearance matters. Style comes before substance during first impressions. People judge based on what they see before they find out what’s within.
You’ll live your life at the least common denominator of those you spend the most time with if you are not watchful.
Your associations play a crucial part of your success equation. Study them closely because they will help or hinder you from reaching your potential.
Your environment and the associations you keep will affect how you think, feel, and act, and ultimately the results you get.
Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success.
If you wish to be successful, you have be willing to invest the time, energy, and money necessary to associate with the right people.
Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from.
You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone.
Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.
Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.
You could be performing below your potential in areas where you are relying on your own experiences alone and without the guidance of a trusted mentor.
Develop a strong thirst for positive associations and learning from others, because the right people can take you further than you can go on your own.
Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.
Incredible ideas, results, and outcomes are possible when two or more minds come together for a common purpose.
Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.
Less is more, especially in relationships. You must understand and appreciate the importance of quality in relationships over quantity.
Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence.
Don’t live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today.
Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly
Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.
The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance.
You are often prevented from reaching your full potential because you hold so tightly to your past success.
To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.
Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
Success comes with a promise and a price. The price has to be paid in full and in advance before the promise is fulfilled.
The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.
The level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make.
The discipline of delaying gratification is a factor for predicting success.
In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.
Without a compelling vision to draw you away from your present and pull you through any challenges and into the future, it becomes easy to settle for a lesser life than the one you could achieve.
If you pay the price for success, you win. If you avoid payment, you lose. It’s really that simple.
Your willingness to sacrifice who you are today for who you need to be in the future is a necessary decision on the success journey.
You can only build on success, but to do this you have to be willing to let go of your last success and use it as a stepping stone for your next achievement.
Success has more to do with what you are willing to sacrifice than your skills, talent or IQ.
Success comes as a result of working towards fulfilling your potential and closing the gap between who you are now and who you are capable of becoming.
The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.