Success Is Not an Accident Quotes

“Before you can have, you must do; but before you can do, you must first become.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“If there is anything in your life that is not the way you want it to be, you and only you are responsible for changing it. You must believe that it is up to you to create solutions to the challenges of life. Whether they are big or small, you’re still responsible. Each time you give an excuse, you diminish your respect, your credibility, and your integrity. Each time you make an excuse, you reinforce your propensity to make even more excuses in the future, and excuse making becomes a habit.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“More than any other single factor, you are where you are today because of the choices you have made. To achieve things you have never achieved before, you must take action today that you’ve never taken before.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“My daily choices create my perfect health.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“No matter who you are, your progress and success in life will depend, more than any other factor, on how you invest the twenty-four hours you’re blessed with each day.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Success is a planned outcome, not an accident. Success and mediocrity are both absolutely predictable because they follow the natural and immutable law of sowing and reaping. Simply stated, if you want to reap more rewards, you must sow more service, contribution, and value. That is the no-nonsense formula. Some of God’s blessings have prerequisites! Success in life is not based on need but on seed. So you’ve got to become good at either planting in the springtime or begging in the fall.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Successful men and women train their minds to think only about what they want to happen in their lives.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“You can’t make more time, only better choices.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they’re trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it’s this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it’s often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“If you don’t have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed with goals just as your body was designed to be fed with food and water.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Top 10 Reasons to Establish Written Goals for Your Life       10. Written goals strengthen your character by promoting a long-term perspective.       9. Written goals allow you to lead your life as opposed to simply managing it.       8. Written goals provide internal, permanent, and consistent motivation.       7. Written goals help you stay focused—to concentrate on what’s most important.       6. Written goals enhance your decision-making ability.       5. Written goals simultaneously require and build self-confidence.       4. Written goals help you create the future in advance.       3. Written goals help you to control changes—to adjust your sails, to work with the wind rather than against it.       2. Written goals heighten your awareness of opportunities that are consistent with your goals.       1. And finally, the most important benefit of setting effective goals is the person you become as a result of the pursuit!”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“When you take responsibility for your actions, accept that life isn’t fair, get rid of excuses, become a doer, and develop an abundance mentality, you will break down many of the barriers keeping you from true success. You will be well on the way to maximizing the potential that God has given you.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Success will be measured at the end of your career, not at the peak. When you’re finished with baseball, if you love God, if you’re still in love with your wife, if your children know who you are, and if your reputation is still intact, then you’ll be successful.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do—and don’t do it.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“There is only one thing in the world that you have complete control over, and that is your thinking. If you don’t deliberately give yourself positive directions, your mind and your body will continue to act upon directions from anywhere and everywhere,”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“success is not measured so much by our accomplishments in life but by what we had to overcome in the process.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“When you know what you want and when you want it, you can always find a way to make it happen.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“The Bill of Responsibilities       I. You have the responsibility to ask only for opportunity.       II. You have the responsibility to seek and find your true place in life.       III. You have the responsibility to write down compelling goals for your life.       IV. You have the responsibility to invest your minutes and hours wisely.       V. You have the responsibility to visualize the attainment of your goals in rich, vivid detail.       VI. You have the responsibility to talk yourself into success.       VII. You have the responsibility to choose a high-energy lifestyle.       VIII. You have the responsibility to develop every area of your life to its maximum.       IX. You have the responsibility to provide more value and contribution if you desire more rewards.       X. You have the responsibility to persist until you succeed.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“while I was making excuses, others just like me were making progress.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“No one plans to become mediocre. Rather, mediocrity is the result of no plan at all. Let me give you a simple but true formula: If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do—and don’t do it.”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“your trainer for life. My passion is to help you become”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“live or work, you can tap into the ongoing power”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“stick with you over the long haul, pushing and challenging you to break through”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“equips you to take command of yourself and your future—start-”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“student. Thank you to Dick Parker, who helped me develop the original version of this book. Special thanks to my agent,”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Thank you to my business partner, Steve Cesari,”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Success Is Not an Accident in 1999, I was certain that the principles I was teaching”
― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life