New Year : The will to succeed

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, only dreams give birth to change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The way for a permanent change

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

T. Harv Eker

Your own life plan

“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.”

Jim Rohn

The extra mile

“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.”

Roger Staubach

On the side of the majority

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Mark Twain

Following your inner vision

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Audre Lorde

The Success Momentum

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Tony Robbins

The first step towards success

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”

Mark Caine

A real entrepreneur

“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.”

Henry Kravis

The leaders

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

Bill Gates

What's success?

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

Maya Angelou

The function of leadership

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

Ralph Nader

Almost the same road

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”

Colin R. Davis

What you see matters more

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

Anonymous

Sleep is redundant

“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.”

Martha Stewart

Living our dreams

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

Les Brown

Achieving success takes hard work

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

Vidal Sassoon

We're what we think

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.”

Earl Nightingale

Motivation

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily.”

Zig Ziglar

Postponement

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

Pablo Picasso

Courage

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.”

Mark Twain

Succeeding & Failing

“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.”

Philippos

Progress

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

Michael John Bobak

Achieveing Excellence

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”

Thomas J. Watson

How is success built?

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”

Robert Collier

Desire

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

Napoleon Hill

Luck

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

Thomas Jefferson

Inferiority

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Let the insults strengthen you

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

David Brinkley

Private Sacrifices behind the Public Glories

“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”

Vaibhav Shah

The Tipping Point

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”

Proverb

Success & Failure

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill

Waiting

“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”

Anonymous

Making our dreams come true

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Walt Disney

Deeds over Words

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

John F. Kennedy

Winners & Losers

“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”

Sylvester Stallone

No one is born a genius

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Share your ideas

“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”

Seth Godin

Stop Gossiping

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you're on autopilot

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”

Larry Winget

Every New Day

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity.”

Og Mandino

Don't be afraid to dream big

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

Henry David Thoreau

Embrace change & thrive

“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”

Seth Godin

Stay focused

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

Warren Buffett

Be an Optimist

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

Carlos Castaneda

Impossible is nothing

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Nelson Mandela

A good head & good heart

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

Nelson Mandela

Be Courageous

“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”

John Nash

Less is More

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there Is nothing left to take away”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Don't Give up

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas A. Edison

Rise above the dificulties

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”

Walt Disney Company, Mulan

Live Life to the Full

“Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.”

Stephen Richards

Fitness

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

Jim Ryun

Surpass Yourself

“The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.”

Stay strong always

“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”

Stephen Richards

Personal Excellence

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

Confucius

Be Quiet

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear”

Ram Dass

How to succeed in life?

“To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

Tony Dorsett

Go do it!

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

Jack Canfield

No pain, no gain!

“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.”

Denis Waitley

Look sharp!

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature's way of warning us to get busy.”

Dr. Henry Link

Just do it!

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh Perspectives

“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”

George Kneller

You're what you think

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.”

Napoleon Hill

Never stop learning

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Success & Failure

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

Coco Chanel

Never ever give up

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

 A Japanese Proverb

TRUE BEAUTY

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Don't rest on your laurels!

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”

 Babe Ruth

You're what you think

“The only person you're  destined to become is the person you decide to
be.”

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impossible is Nothing

“If you hear a voice within you say " you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

 Vincent Van Gogh

Be Courageous

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

 Christopher Columbus

Stop Excusing

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

 Florence Nightingale

Improve yourself everyday

“People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.”

 Kevin Kline

Self-reliance

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”

 Albert Einstein

Accept Challenges

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

 Joshua J. Marine

Develop Positive Habits

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

 Warren Buffett

Look Ahead

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

 Warren Buffett

Always love what you do

“It’s not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.”

 Mother Teresa

The Will to Succeed

“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”

 Joel Brown

Be Humble

“Bamboo: The taller they grow, the lower they bend.”

 Proverb

Be Adaptable

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind, just adjust your sails.”

 H. Jackson Brown Jr

Be Nice to All

"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses."

 A Chinese Proverb

Procrastination

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

 Pablo Picasso

Success

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."

 Colin Powell

The Will to Succeed

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

 Vince Lombardi

Value of Persistence

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

 Steve Jobs

Seize the Day

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

 Oprah Winfrey

Cultivate Imagination

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

 Albert Einstein

Keep Moving Forward

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin

Keep Moving Forward

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Martin Luther King Jr

Follow Right Advice

"Follow right advice. Otherwise you might wake up one day and realize that you’ve lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones …"

Reaching the Top

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Edison

Reaching the Top

Climbing to the top demands Strength, Commitment & Wisdom whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

Feedback counts very much

Because none of us has the total mastery of everything we do, it's hugely important to give & receive feedback. But, in offering feedback, we should do it without understating or overstating as both of these give a distorted view of the reality. Also, in receiving feedback, we should listen attentively to the facts without letting our opinions, preferences or memories cloud the reality in essence.

Value Of Smile

No matter how busy, stressed or pressured you feel at work, don't forget to smile with your colleagues, superiors or subordinates and keep your chin up. While it won't cost you anything, it'll surely make you feel good about yourself and also strengthen your relationship with all people at work.