In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
— Bill Cosby
Astonishing Desire To Succeed quotations
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.
You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire.
Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret.
You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.
In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.
You can develop a burning desire to succeed.
How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous;
taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.
A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly.
What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art.
.. the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
The heavy odds against finding the desired.
.. work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.
Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?
I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition;
that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Donald Trump's connection is personal.
It's rooted in personal desire, personal loyalty for him to succeed. Barack Obama doesn't have that. Never did. But don't try to tell Obama that. Obama believes that he has the exact kind of connection with voters that Trump has.
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.