Here's one of my own - We are all about as successful as we choose to be.

Great quote and I absolutely agree. So many people sit and think about success and dream about success and what it would be like if they were successful. Instead they forget that any success requires you to first get up off your lazy butt and go out there and take direct action to make it happen.

Anyone can learn to be successful. However success requires work, education and the determination to keep on trying. It requires remembering that failure is only failure unless you fail to learn from it. If you can learn from any failure, then failure becomes a stepping stone on the road to success.

Go out there and make it happen. Find the success within yourself.

Kyle

Q: How would you like your coffee?
A: In a cup.

It was a non magic related situation but it made me remember to really make sure that the people that I am speaking with understand what I am presenting or speaking about.

The guy that gave the answer was dead serious and was not joking with me.

Pikard:

Great quote there and certainly gets you thinking. I often time have to remind myself that the client or prospect may not turly understand what I am saying or trying to say. This quote reminds me that I need to listen to my prospects and clients and work with them to understand not only what I have to say but also hear what they intend as well.

Kyle

Hey, Kyle!

Good to read your comments, as always

Gekko's quote actually serves a motivational purpose for me at times, goading me to practise sleights or do marketing when I'd rather be...well, lazy. While the context and perhaps intent of the quote are negative, the gist of it is that achievement requires directed effort, and thus it's become a succinct and much more positive reminder than the director meant.

My poem's snippet reminds me largely of the same thing, but in a much more explicitly positive way: In striving towards a goal, not every job will be glamourous or pleasant, but each is necessary for achievement.

Leland

On April 23, 1910 Theodore Roosevelt had this to say:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

This can be applied to so many things in life and inspires me to strive for the 'triumph of high achievement.'

Here are a few other interesting quotes that I like.

The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli



Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Brian Tracy



It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill



It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

Mabel Newcomber



I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller



You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

Susan Jeffers




Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
Brian Tracy



Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.

Frank Davidson

"If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life"

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

This is simply great stuff and I am not sure about anyone else, but I not only thank everyone for posting here, but I am using some of these and posting them up in my office to remind me of things and how these quotes can efectively help me and my magic business. There is a wealth of great stuff here.

Kyle

Alright, this one is biblical- so I know it must be good!

"It came to pass..."

This is important! Basically, if you are in a rut weither it be routining, a dry-spell of shows, kids parties, etc... Just know, it came to pass... It is not here to stay!

-Bryan

That is so very true. We must also learn that when we seem like we have failedor done a show that did not go over well, that we can not look at failure as failure. Learn from the experience. Study why something did not go over well and learn from the experience. When one learns in this manner, then even failure is not failure at all but a step in the right direction towards success.

Kyle

"Shoot for the Moon, and even if you don't make it, at least you'll be among the stars."


- Not Sure...


Jester

"Do or do not, there is no try"

......Yoda

I think that one may also have been used by Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid.

"Within each us of GOD has instilled the power to change their destiny.
Tap into that divine power and move mountains while others struggle to climb them".
...Christopher Kavanagh

This has helped me through so much in my life. It's my own, so maybe that's why.

Are you a magician, or do you just do tricks - Tony Slydini

Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle looks just like a daimond ring? - John Prine

If you don't do it your own way, you're just like everyone else - Jack Kodell

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you make it - ?

YOU are the magic. - Albert Goshman (God rest his soul)

but the greatest, deepest yet simplest, quote comes from my hero...my father

The only thing you can learn with your mouth open is how something tastes.

Scott



Scott

"vin,vidi,vici"
(I'd be my spelling is wrong on that..sorry!)
It's latin as quoted from Julius Ceasar.
"I came, I saw, I conquered".
I always saw that quote maybe a little too deeply as a method for success in business.
Kind of like Woody Allen's: "80% of success is just showing up" thing for Julius' "I came"...that kind of, maybe, "reading a little bit much into" it.
I really liked all the quotes here! Some real gems!
Love the Slydini comment, Compton!