Reaching Success Quotes:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Success, Perseverance, Persistence, Try Again, About Success

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Becoming, Standards, Succes, Personal Success

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Wisdom, Mean, Succes, Personal Success

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

- Robert Collier

source: Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Success, Effort, Pushing On, Inspiring Business

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Martial Arts Inspirational, Journey To Success

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Best Success, Inspirational History

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Spiritual Success, Life Motivation

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Success, Successful Life, Reaching Success

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Confidence, Business, Answers, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Motivational, Karma, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

- William Edward Hickson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Try Again, About Success

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

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

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

- Fitzhugh Dodson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Greatness, Life Goal, Career Goals

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Motivation, Steps, Steps Forward, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

- William Feather

topic: Success, Perseverance, Hard Work, Try Again, Spanish And English

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Job Opportunities, New Career, Greatest Achievement, Successful Career, Motivational Career

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

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

- Vince Lombardi

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Best Of Me, Best Coaches

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

- Harriet Tubman

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Dream

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Going To College, Inspire Students

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Inspirational, Adventure, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation Goal Setting

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

- William C. Menninger

topic: Inspirational, Success, Integrity, Personal Qualities, Personal Integrity

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Inspirational, Life Is Short, Thinking, Life's Too Short, Social Media Marketing

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Successful, Young Entrepreneurs, Perserverance

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

- Sarah Burton

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

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

- Benjamin Franklin Fairless

topic: Motivational, Team, Successful, Job Opportunities, New Career

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Motivational Goal, Reaching Goals

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Sunshine, Far Away, Aspiration, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Happiness, Success, Perseverance, Secret Of My Success, Constancy

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, About Success

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Taking Risks, Motivational Work

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivational Achievement

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Pushing On, Taking Risks

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

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

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

- Dale Carnegie

source: "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Fun Work, Just Want To Have Fun