Top 100 Success Book Quotes
#1. I can't promise you that money will bring you happiness, because it didn't do it for me.
But the lack of it, for sure, will bring you unhappiness.
Money buys you options and security. Without options and security your soul cannot soar and be free.
From my Upcoming book
Celso Cukierkorn
#2. You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#3. A good book is not the same as a successful one.
Johnny Rich
#4. In my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
Joe Torre
#5. When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#6. Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.
George R R Martin
#7. Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
Marjane Satrapi
#8. Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.
Dan Poynter
#9. Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#10. Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
Mary Roach
#11. The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.
Myles Munroe
#12. I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
J. Michael Straczynski
#13. Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
Charles Caleb Colton
#14. We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#15. You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
Charles Dickens
#16. [Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell.
Hal Holbrook
#17. There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
Charles T. Munger
#18. Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.
Auliq Ice
#19. The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This
Brian Tracy
#20. Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#21. Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#22. Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.
Rob Martin
#23. There is just one way to get success for me - Live in other's heart.
Anuj Tiwari
#24. Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#25. Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.
Rob Martin
#26. You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#27. Creating an intentional, prioritized, and written plan for your day is everything. Planning how you will use your time is the number one strategy for achieving your own 5 a.m. miracle. It is the most important element in this book and it is the key difference-maker between success and failure.
Jeff Sanders
#28. Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#29. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
Richie Norton
#30. the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining.
Isaac D'Israeli
#31. I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.
J.K. Rowling
#32. Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
Will C. Barnes
#34. Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.
Robin Sharma
#35. My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that we all must face in order to succeed. You are invited on a journey of personal discovery.
Ken Taylor
#36. Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.
Pete Sampras
#37. Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.
Carew Papritz
#38. The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??
For god sake, one drop truth which is about from 10% up to 20% and the other from 80% up to 90% it's a lie.
Deyth Banger
#39. Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
Dolly Parton
#40. MY HUSBAND, STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS
QUOTED THIS RECENTLY IN WANGARATTA AT A BOOK SIGNING WHEN ASKED ADVICE FOR SUCCESS.........
1. Marry Louise.
2. Do what she tells you.
3. Keep her happy!
Louise Dando-Collins
#41. A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#42. For the success,
Although particular, shall give a scantling
Of good or bad unto the general;
And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.
William Shakespeare
#43. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
Jerry Seinfeld
#44. Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.
Steve Maraboli
#45. Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#46. I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.
Ben Horowitz
#47. Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#48. Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.
Guy Kawasaki
#49. Life is a Book. Make it a Great Ending.
We all have flaws, so why would life be flawless.
Progress to Success!!
Ki Allen
#50. Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein
Kate Larkinson
#51. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer
Sol Stein
#52. I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.
Sylvia Beach
#53. If I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
#54. I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.
Kirk Douglas
#55. The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.
Robin Sharma
#56. I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
Michael Koryta
#59. It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.
Rob Martin
#60. If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.
Malcolm Gladwell
#61. Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life.
Debasish Mridha
#62. There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
M.J. Rose
#64. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice
#65. Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.
Rick Yancey
#66. Destiny is manifested only through action.
Suzy Kassem
#67. How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#68. Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#69. It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.
James Fenimore Cooper
#70. A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success;
Daniel Kahneman
#71. There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#72. It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion.
Kim Stolz
#73. Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro
#74. Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.
Rob Martin
#75. As parents, the most important thing we can do
is read to our children early and often. Reading
is the path to success in school and life. When
children learn to love books, they learn to love
learning.
Laura Bush
#76. I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.
Nina Jacobson
#77. There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.
Jordan Belfort
#78. Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.
Malcolm Gladwell
#79. I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
Ashwin Sanghi
#80. I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.
Clifton Cameron
#81. Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
Walter Kaufmann
#82. If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
Sonia Sotomayor
#83. The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate those drives is the secret to success and happiness. This is a smart and beautifully written book, and it will electrify your life. Get this book!
Daniel Amen
#84. There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
Judith Briles
#85. Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.
Rob Martin
#86. Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.
Rob Martin
#87. You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#88. I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.
Rob Martin
#89. I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.
Jan Brett
#90. You create and plan your thought by seeing, reading and hearing the right things.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#91. If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will be a much bigger success than you otherwise would have been. There truly is POWER in words ...
Doug Dohring
#92. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#93. It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival.
Hiroyuki Hirano
#94. Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick's book. Joy, success ... and health and happiness are just around the corner!
Harvey Karp
#95. Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#96. People don't always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.
Johnny Rich
#97. Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony?
Judith Briles
#98. Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success
Herb Brooks
#99. Your life today and tomorrow is patterned alongside your thoughts. You are therefore advised to create good and wonderful thoughts today so they will deliver a beautiful tomorrow for you.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#100. In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.
Sophie Kinsella
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