Success
618 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 590 from other voices.
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- The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.Alexander PopeSourced
- The recognition of a determinate purpose in life, and a sturdy adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.
- The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit,--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
- The same effort that wins a small success would, rightly directed, have won a great success.
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- The secret of success chiefly lies in the determination to succeed and the resolve that every repulse, every knock-down he receives in the battle, will only nerve him the more.
- The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin DisraeliSourced
- The secret of success is focus of purpose.
- The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
- The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
- The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.
- The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
- The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow’s game.
- The single most important factor to success is the ability to make things happen. This requires determination, resourcefulness, focus, tenacity, confidence, a willingness to look like an idiot, and an ability to do the work when no one is watching.
- The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
- The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well – not just a few – and integrating among them.Michael PorterCommonly attributed
- The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
- The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
- The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
- The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.Irving BerlinCommonly attributed
- The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
- The truest success is that which is earned slowly, but which surely strengthens itself.
- The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
- The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.
- The way to get ahead is to start now.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
- There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
- There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- There is always room at the top.
- There is but one method of success, and that is hard labor; and a man who will not pay that price for distinction had better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox.
- There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
- There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- There is no question that our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves.
- There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
- There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.
- There’s no substitute for hard work.
- There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.