Best 31 quotes of Jeff Olson on MyQuotes

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

Successful people fail their way to the top!

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME..." Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.

Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

Don't try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start.

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. GREATNESS IS ALWAYS IN THE MOMENT OF THE DECISION. But you have to start.

You are capable of great things. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing-even when you don't feel like it, even when no one else is watching.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.