450 Quotes About Success-in-life

To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?

If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

The reward for living my life in this manner? An existence like that of a seagull picking up scraps from the back of a fishing boat. Surviving day to day. Nothing left for tomorrow and no idea what tomorrow should be.

Modesty be damned!

If you have designed your last day on earth, if you have decided how you wish to be thought of on your deathbed, only then can you start to plot a course to that point, to your ideal final destination.

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth.