To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova
Where there is an effort, there is a success. — Thai Proverbs
Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up. — Heidi Klum
Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up. — Rihanna
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter. — Robert Forman Horton
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. — David Bly
Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere. — Patanjali
Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals. — Gary Ryan
Short Strive For Success Quotes
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal — Abdul Kalam
The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success. — R. Kelly
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. — Charles O. Finley
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. — John H. Johnson
Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat — Kim Hyun-joong
Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance. — Manfred von Richthofen
In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme. — Aliko Dangote
Strive For Success Image Quotes
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
Desire For Success Quotes
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. — Bill Cosby
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. — Adrienne Rich
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Oprah Winfrey
This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks. — Elon Musk
With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be. — Selena
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. — Robert Foster Bennett
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. — Lionel Messi
I have affirmed that cooperation between the State's bodies is the basis of any successful national action and the optimal method for achievement to meet development aspirations desired by the country's people, in line with the democratic path. — Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Strive For Greatness Quotes
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. — Rick Pitino
I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace. — Morgan Freeman
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour. — Philippe Halsman
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. — John Calvin
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician. — Charlie Haden
There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings. — Rex Harrison
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection. — Anton Corbijn
Desire To Succeed Quotes
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. — Eddie Robinson
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. — Marcel Proust
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. — Ramakrishna
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it. — Neil Simon
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want. — Jim Rohn
What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed. — Dave Thomas
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. — Alan Moore
For a Company of One to succeed, a strategy for simplifying isn’t just a desirable goal but an absolute requirement. — Paul Jarvis
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. — W. Clement Stone
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. — Confucius
Strive To Excel Quotes
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. — Pat Riley
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck
He played a near-perfect game, but to him, not perfect enough. — Tim Grover
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. — Richard Rorty
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. — Laurence Olivier
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. — Jeremy Collier
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it. — Pat Riley
In all you do, always strive to acquire skills that make you stand out and excel. — Folorunsho Alakija
We always strive to be the best in the wage package. — James Sinegal
Strive Quotes
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. — George Washington Carver
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie
To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability. — Joseph Pilates
The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers. — Maximilian Kolbe
When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is. — Avicenna
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. — Alfred Adler
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Tennyson
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. — George Whitefield
We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God. — Vincent de Paul
Strive For Excellence Quotes
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough — Henry Royce
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. — Harriet B. Braiker
Better work often comes from those striving for excellence than from those who have already achieved it. — Greg Brockman
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. — Joyce Meyer
Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Your actions speak louder than words, so always strive for excellence in everything that you do. — Joe Rogan
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection. — Alan Kulwicki
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. — Laurence Olivier
Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter. — Orison Swett Marden
Continue To Strive Quotes
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. — Marc Chagall
The people of the UAE, and striving to empower them, always has been and continues to be our nation’s top priority. Their happy lives remain the basis of all our future plans. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. — Frank Lloyd Wright
That's my motto. That's what I stand by. That's what I believe in. Just continue to tell yourself 'why not?' Continue to strive and make the right play to help your team win. — Russell Westbrook
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win. — LL Cool J
I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased. — Marie Curie
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. — Eamon de Valera
Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done. — Brian Tracy
Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all. — Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances. — Harold B. Lee
Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible. — Jackie Chan
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them. — Edmund Hillary
I’ve come to understand that if you want to learn something badly enough, you’ll find a way to make it happen. Having the will to search and succeed is very important. — Wim Hof
Only the passion for the dreams, courage to pursue them, determination to succeed, turns them into reality. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. — George Allen
All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over. — Tony Wheeler
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. — Vince Lombardi
Be diligent to succeed as there is a way where there be no way, only the persistent and diligent finds it. — Folorunsho Alakija
Striving For Excellence Quotes
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. — Brad Henry
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. — Charles R. Swindoll
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude — Colin Powell
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile. — Ed Bliss
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. — Akhenaton
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. — Melody Beattie
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence. — Andrew Harvey
I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. — Clara Hughes
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. — John W. Gardner
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. — Nelson Mandela
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J. R. D. Tata
Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way to do this is to have the right people working with you - not for you, but with you. I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others. — Farrah Gray
As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success. — Chris Voss
SEO success comes to marketers who strive for stellar content and an impeccable user experience. — Brian Dean
A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality. — Strive Masiyiwa
Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it — Drake
Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation. — Strive Masiyiwa
The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts. — Jose Raul Capablanca
True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence. — Reggie Jackson
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success. — Fran Tarkenton
Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values. — Henry A. Kissinger
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity. — David Maister
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
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. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want — Fran Tarkenton
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule
People are always asking what's the secret of my success, and the answer is easy - at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive. If you don't have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don't think that you have much of a life. You've got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to - that's what living is all about. — Aaron Tippin
Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams. — Alice Foote MacDougall
Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity. — Keith Ferrazzi
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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. — Matt LeBlanc
Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary. — Jack H. Goaslind
And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success. — Andy Andrews
That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service. — Barack Obama
Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not. — Douglas Merrill
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence. — Don Shula
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him. — William James
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. — William Hurt
Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. For all Americans together. — Hillary Clinton
If you expect to be successful and you expect to raise a family while having a career then you will strive for that; if you strive for it then hopefully you will achieve it. So I think for my own daughter, she's going to grow up with a working mom. One that has had to make some painful choices and face some painful realities. — Sarah Treem
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory. — John Dewey
I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power. — Allen Ginsberg
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving. — Dinesh D'Souza
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. — Alan Ball
You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people. — Jim Burke
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third. — Charles Caleb Colton
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. — Marc Veasey
I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order. — Serzh Sargsyan
Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something. — Philip Zimbardo
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking. — Daniel Gilbert
The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves. — Albert Schweitzer
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job. — Valeria Lukyanova
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