“Focus precedes success in all situations.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Focus always comes before success. Very little is accomplished without removing what we don’t want so that we focus on what we truly do.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“The great truth in life throughout history is this: People with goals succeed and people without goals then fail.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or worthy ideal.”

- Earl Nightingale

“Success is created through consistency turned into repetition.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“Success begins with figuring out what you want, then making the choices that will get you there.”

- Shellye Archambeau

"Plans are the threads that weave the fabric of achievement."

- Liane Cordes

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.”

- Jim Rohn

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

- William Jennings Bryan

“Make sure that you have a clear goal in mind and prioritize your actions around achieving the goal. What do I need to be doing more of? What do I need to be doing less of? What habits do I need to start? What is one habit you could start tomorrow that would improve how you performed in your personal and your professional life? What habits do I need to stop?”

- From Tom Ferry: Mindset, Model, and Marketing

“Here’s one way to approach it: Push the ultimate desired outcome off into an unknowable future horizon then break the big goal down into smaller chunks. Identify THE next most important little domino that needs to get knocked over. Set a challenging but realistic target for THAT goal, then figure out the PROCESS you need to engage in on a daily basis to hit that goal and voila! You’re an instant success as you show up and take the next baby step, remembering to celebrate the small wins as you create a feeling of continuous achievement. Remember: We want that inspiring, jumbo-huge goal to serve as a RUDDER pointing us in the right direction as we practice staying fully engaged in one moment after the other. That’s much better than using our unrealistic goal as a measuring stick that depletes our energy as we worry about why we’re not already at our goal.”

- Brian Johnson, Heroic.us

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” 

- W. P. Kinsella

“We all say that we want to succeed, but sooner or later our level of activity must equal our level of intent. Talking about achievement is one thing; making it happen is something altogether different. Some people seem to take more joy in talking about success than they do in achieving it. It is as though their ritualistic chant about someday lulls them into a false sense of security, and all the things that they should be doing and could be doing on any given day never seem to get done. The consequences of this self-delusion have their own inevitable price. Sooner or later the day will arrive when they will look back with regret at all those things they could have done, and meant to do, but left undone. That is why we must push ourselves in the present to experience the milder pain of discipline. We will all experience one pain or the other—the pain of discipline or the pain of regret—but the difference is that the pain of discipline weighs only ounces while the pain of regret weighs tons.”

- Jim Rohn

“Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. Discipline is the master key. It unlocks the door to wealth and happiness, culture and sophistication, high self-esteem and high accomplishment, and the accompanying feelings of pride, satisfaction, and success. Even the smallest discipline can have an incredible effect on your attitude.”

- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

- Jim Rohn

“Imagine the following:

You buy a ticket to an NBA game… let’s say a Lakers game at Staples Center.

You fight traffic, land a $40 parking spot, grab some snacks and drinks, and finally get to your seat.

The game starts, and you look up in the rafters, and the scoreboard is… missing!

There’s nothing there.

The players are dribbling, passing and shooting, but no one’s keeping score. After some arbitrary amount of time, they decide to stop playing, and everyone goes home.

Tell me…

Would that be the same experience as attending a game where the teams are battling for every important point as the clock counts down to the final buzzer?

No, of course not! If you take away the scoreboard and the clock, all the drama, tension, urgency, and excitement vanishes as well.

So here’s my question to you: Are you playing your game with or without a scoreboard?

Track & Measure Everything!”

- From TomFerry.com, Tom Ferry

“20% of what we do leads to 80% of the results; but 80% of what we do leads to only 20%. We are wasting 80% of our time on low-value outcomes….calm down, work less and target a limited number of very valuable goals where the 80/20 Principle will work for us.”

- From The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch

“Success has always gone to those who could apply their talents in a single-minded manner over an extended period of time to achieve a given outcome.”

- From Unsubscribe by Jocelyn K. Glei

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

- From The Miracle of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy