Only you can decide what success really means to you- but achieving success requires the same steps for nearly everyone.  You can transform your future by taking action starting today.

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."

Braveheart

"Keep away from people who try to be little your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain, Writer

"My inner mind is weak and negative when it speaks to itself, but when I read someone else's words they become my own and I become strong - I need to learn to listen to my own positive voice and drown out that negative one."

Russell Bowyer, Entrepreneur and author

"The only difference between a success and a failure is that the successful person is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do."

J. R. Ridinger, Market America Inc

 "Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!"

Paul J. Meyer, mentor, philanthropist, personal growth and development guru

 "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali, former world champion heavy weight boxer

 "Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to your success."

Harry Fosdick, Baptist minister

 "Shoot for the moon if you miss you will land among the stars."

Peter Cohen, Author

 "Obstacles are those frightful things you see before you take your eyes off your goals."

Henry Ford, Founder The Ford Corporation

 "The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

Anthony Robbins, Author, life coach and business guru

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems."

Mark Victor Hansen, Author, life coach and marketing guru

 "In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein, Inventor

 "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

George Patton, US Army General

 "Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me."

Robert Schuller, Pastor

 "Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. If you are willing to consider failure a blessing in disguise and bounce back you can harness one of the most powerful success forces."

Joseph Sugarman, Chairman of JS Group, Inc. and BluBlocker Corp. and author of numerous sales and marketing books

 "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer."

Nolan Bushnell, inventor of Pong and founder of Atari

 "Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed."

Bruce Lee, Martial Arts fighter and actor

 "If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

 "A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."

Bruce Lee, Martial Arts fighter and actor

 "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

Colin Powell, US Army General and Statesman

 "Keep away from people who try to be little your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain, Author

 "You will never find time for anything you must make it."

Charles Buxton, Author

 "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

 "It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it."

Jim Crowe, President and Chief Executive Officer of Level 3 Communications, Inc

 "Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician

 "Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."

Bruce Lee, Martial Arts fighter and actor

 "People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success. "

Pete Zafra, Athelete

 "It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. "

Charles Kettering, inventor of the first electrical ignition system

 "Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there."

Marcus Washling

 "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author 

"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart."

Winston Churchill, UK Prime minister

 "I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't."

Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medallist

 "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

George S. Patton, American military leader

 "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

 "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

Bruce Lee, Martial Arts fighter and actor

 "Success never comes before work, except in the dictionary!"

Vidal Sasoon, entrepreneur

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