Success
618 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 590 from other voices.
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- Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
- Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.Nelson MandelaSourced
- Everyone who wins pays a price. You have to give up something to get something.
- Everyone you admire was once a beginner.
- Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.
- Everything you want is on the far side of hard work.
- Exceed your customers' expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want—and a little more.
- Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that got us there.
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
- Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
- Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.
- Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
- Failure is so important. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.
- Failure is the first rung on the ladder of success… watch an infant learn to walk.
- Failure isn’t final until you quit.
- Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success.
- Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
- Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
- Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
- For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
- Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.
- Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are.
- Genius is fine, but if it comes to a show-down, gumption is better.
- Give me health and a day, and I will make ridiculous the pomp of emperors.
- Give more than you take, and you’ll get more than you give.
- Goals are for signalling. Systems are for winning.
- Goals give direction. Systems deliver results.
- Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
- Great determination can overcome most odds.
- Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
- Great successes have been made as often in quiet ways as with the blare of trumpets.
- Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
- Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
- He soon exploded for himself the misleading and comfortable theory of luck: the only lucky people, he found, were those who worked hard.
- He that can have patience, can have what he will.
- He who deliberately adopts a great end, has, by this act, half accomplished it, has scaled the chief barrier to success.
- He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.