Success
618 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 590 from other voices.
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- If there is ever a time to be ambitious, it is not when ambition is easy, but when it is hard.
- If there is no risk of failure, there can be no success.
- If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. If we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Ben CarsonCommonly attributed
- If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And--which is more--you’ll be a Man, my son!
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
- If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
- If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
- If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.
- If you want to be successful in life, respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
- If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
- If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.
- If you’re somebody when you’re successful, what are you when you’re unsuccessful?
- I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
- In its last analysis, the cause of all failure can be traced to the scattering of forces, and the cause of all achievement to the concentration of forces.
- In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.
- In proportion as one loses himself in the way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
- In the twenty-first century, survival of the fittest means survival of the focused.
- In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
- Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- Internal victories precede external victories.
- It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.
- It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.
- It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
- It is not ease, but effort,--not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
- It is not luck, nor is it great mental endowments, but it is well directed, honest toil.
- It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
- It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
- It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed," would be nearer the truth.
- It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.
- It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.
- It pays to be smart — but it pays more to be determined, disciplined, dependable, and driven.
- It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.