Desire For Success Quotes:

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

- Alan Moore

topic: Desire, Desire For Success, Fear Of Failure

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: "Thoughts on Writing" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.elizabethgilbert.com. February 24, 2011.

topic: Desire, Desire For Success, Recognition

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

- Mario Andretti

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Commitment, Inspirational Determination

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Desire For Success

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Positive, Being Strong, Dream, Strong Desire, Superhuman Powers

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

- David Frost

topic: Love, Success, Meaningful, About Success, High School Graduation

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

- Tony Dorsett

source: Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Sports Spirit, Professional Career

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Dance, Teamwork, Motivation, Creativeness, Creative People

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Change, Improving Yourself

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

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Inspirational, Strong, Mean, Objects Of Desire, Inspirational Passion

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Dream, Limits, About Success, Inner Growth

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Encouragement, Transcending, Starting All Over

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

topic: Faith, Believe, Inspirational Believe In Yourself, Salespeople, Order To Succeed

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

- Anne Frank

topic: Success, Believe, Heart, Good Success, Success Is Measured

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Wants And Desires, Desire For Success

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

- Sarah Burton

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Success Mantra, Ultimate Success, Vocabulary Words

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

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Starting All Over, Starting All Over Again

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Dream, Life Disappointment, Success Is Measured

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

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

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

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.

- Selena

topic: Attitude, Positive Attitude, Want, Singleness, Desire For Success

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Humorous Love, St Valentine

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

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

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

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

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Softball, Desire For Success, Desire To Win

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Desire, Burning, Action, Desire For Success, Burning Desire

The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

- Stanisław I Leszczyński

topic: Strong, Desire, Achieve, Desire For Success

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

- Marshall Goldsmith

topic: Skills, Achievement, Desire, Desire For Success

In the beginning, I thought that women needed protection, on a style level, to have the right impact to let them realize their desire for success. Now, many years later, women no longer need a masculine uniform. Women have changed.

- Giorgio Armani

source: Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

topic: Impact, Years, Style, Desire For Success

The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 24, 2012

topic: Bombarded By, Growth, Desire, Desire For Success, Bombarded

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

- Natalia Ginzburg

topic: Education, Children, Thinking, Frankness, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

- Mark McCormack

source: Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.245, Bantam

topic: Failure, Desire, Facts, Desire For Success

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

- Norman Mailer

topic: Soul, Secret, Desire, Desire For Success

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (2007). “Think And Grow Rich”, p.103, Lulu.com

topic: People, Criticism, Desire, Desire For Success

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

- Fran Tarkenton

topic: Inspire, Desire, Loser, Desire For Success