Achieving Success Quotes:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Success, Time, My Mistakes, Mistakes You've Made

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Esteem

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Success, Opportunity, Young Entrepreneurs, New Opportunity

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Social Good, Failure In Life

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Success, Witty, Perseverance, Strive For Success, Spiritual Success

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

- Thomas Watson, Jr.

topic: Encouraging, Simple, Giving, About Success, Failure In Life

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Aspire, Inspirational Goal Setting

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Unsuccessful, Vary

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

- Joyce Brothers

source: "The Pocket Philosopher/ Psychologist" by Mark J. Merten, (p. 87), 2004.

topic: Positive, Success, Motivation, Student Success, Desire For Success

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Opportunity For Success, Best Opportunity

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Steps To Success, Self Discipline

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

- Stephen Brennan

topic: Business, Goal, Vehicle, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation And Drive

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Live For Yourself, Social Life

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Soul Life

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Common, Competence, Wells, Common Things, Secret To Success

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

topic: Want, Eldest, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Success Failure, Singleness

If you think you can - you can!

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Failure, Good Luck, Thinking, Inspirational Goal, Great Positive Attitude

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

- Michael Korda

source: "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

topic: Success, Responsibility, People, Love And Responsibility, Great Responsibility

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

- George Eliot

topic: Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are, Meant To Be Alone, Achieving Your Goals

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Success, Failure, Inspirational Success Failure, Inspiring Sales

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

- Steve Miller

topic: Successful, Too Late, Might, Achieving Success, Goals And Ambitions

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Lying, Goal, Mind, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Weight Loss

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Success, Struggle, Men, Against All Odds, Success Is Measured

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Success, Secret, Common, Common Things, Secret To Success

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

- Ross Perot

topic: Motivational, Strength, Success, Favorite Sports, About Success

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Achieved Success, Achieving Success

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

- Marva Collins

topic: Success, Job Opportunities, Journey To Success, Student Success, Succeeding In Life

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Success, Giving, Want, Starting Anew, Achieving Success

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Success, Congratulations, Literature, Achieving Success

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

- George Eliot

topic: Successful, Goal, Too Late, Inspirational Goal, Meant To Be Alone

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

topic: Success, Persistence, Will And Determination, Inspirational Hard Work, Sure Thing

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Motivation And Drive, Motivation Goal Setting

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Doubted, Achieved Success

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football