Success
618 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 590 from other voices.
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- A successful life is nothing more nor less than living as well as we know how and doing the very best that we can.
- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.
- A young man makes of a position exactly what he chooses, either a millstone around his neck or a stepping-stone to larger success.
- A young man who holds back for fear of making mistakes loses the first point of success.
- Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- Accomplishment is something you cannot buy. If you have a chance and don’t make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth. It is not what you do in baseball or sports, but how hard you try. Win or lose, I try my best.
- Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.
- Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
- Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Adversity is always the partner of progress.
- After success, keep working.
- All great achievements require time.
- All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere.
- All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonor, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor.
- All my successes have been built on my failures.
- All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
- All the beautiful rewards of life come by indirection, and are the incidental results of simply doing our work up to our highest and best.
- All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.Baruch SpinozaSourced
- Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
- Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a mean to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
- And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.
- Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
- Anyone can start something. No one quits right before the prize. The middle sets people apart.
- Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?
- Arouse your energy for the attainment of the as-yet-unattained, for the achievement of the as-yet-unachieved, for the realization of the as-yet-unrealized.
- As successes come your way, remember that you didn't do it alone. It is always we.Colin PowellSourced
- Attain the unattainable.Alfred TennysonCommonly attributed
- Avoid multiplicity of business; the man of one thing, is the man of success.
- Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
- Be so good they can’t ignore you.
- Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
- Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.Alexander Graham BellSourced
- Before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.
- Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
- Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Boring progress today makes exceptional outcomes in the future.
- Call hope to your aid, and picture a bright, successful future.