Success Quotes - Page 126

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

Confucius

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

Ogwo David Emenike

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Michelle Sagara West

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. GlassLook back on my life like the ghost of Christmas pastToys R Us where I used to spend that Christmas cashAnd I still won't grow up, I'm a grown ass kidSwear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I didBut I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumphMake music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

No one can take the shot for you.

For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.

I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

Richard P. Denney

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

How would your life be different if...you had a plan of action towards your goals? Let today be the day...You stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

Amy Tan

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.

Shannon L. Alder

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Tim Fargo

A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Ashok Kallarakkal

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

Sophie Kinsella

Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper

Israelmore Ayivor

And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe.

Don`t allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out.That was the military.

Orson Scott Card

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

Nothing succeeds like success.

Alexandre Dumas

Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.

Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

Ogwo David Emenike

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.

Hyman G. Rickover

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Timothy Ferriss

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.

How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

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