Strive For Success Quotes

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world? That is such a common question these days among artists. I truly believe that most artists will come to a cross road where they will have to decide on which route to take as it's extremely hard to be successful in both worlds.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having those things, certainly doesn't guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. And that's when all those outer things come. They don't come from going after them first to get the happiness, it's backwards; you go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all of the other things from the outside appear.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

All great achievements require time.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

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

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

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

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The best revenge is massive success.

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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.

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.