Success Quotes

If you want something to happen, you must make it happen, because if you really don't want it, it's not going to happen without you. You can't make other people do things for you. You can't wait for people to come and give it to you. You must go out and get it.

~ Olga Custodio

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

~ Amelia Earhart

I am still enjoying the successful completion of my PhD; taking time to relax, renew, and refocus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Surely, the Creator was with me in every circumstance. He has granted me a successful completion of my doctorate degree.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We wonder with our thoughts to where we wish to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do the good work, with the resources you have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can do extraordinary deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.

~ Orrin Woodward

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

~ Bill Courtney

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

~ Bill Courtney

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

~ Zig Ziglar

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths.

~ Anthony Liccione

You express the truth of your character, your dedication to your goals, and your commitment to your relationships with the choice of your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)

~ Orison Swett Marden

If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.

~ Successcoach Nilesh

The journey is the REWARD! NOT the destination.

~ Matthew Donnelly

You want it to be easy? But if it was easy, everyone Would be doing it.. And if everyone is doing it? Why do you want to be the same... Trust that the struggle you face Is your path to success & remember If it's easy, it's not worth it.

~ Nikki Rowe

Celebrate the journey. It’s not all about the destination. Savor all of your successes, even the small ones.

~ Dawn Gluskin

Great leaders create memorable journeys

~ John Stein

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them

~ John Stein

The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst. But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.

~ Steve Maraboli

Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

~ Carl Henegan

We should learn to smile as we fall, So much so as when we have it all.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.

~ Duncan Bannatyne

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Choose to do more than just exist, choose to live.

~ Steve Maraboli

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

~ William J. Bernstein

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

~ Brandi L. Bates

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

~ Brandi L. Bates

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

~ Brandi L. Bates

I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.

~ Brandi L. Bates

I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now “God gave it to me!” Don’t you think you are too stupid?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

True Success adds value to others

~ Todd Stocker

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

~ Brian Tracy

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don't have to let his definition of success be yours

~ Jody Hedlund

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

~ Richard M. Stallman

Work out to work up.

~ Toni Sorenson