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Success And Ambition Quotes About Setting Goals

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Bo Bennett

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.
Michelle Obama

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Success And Ambition Quotes About Determination

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

Success And Ambition Quotes About Passion

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

Passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives.
Unknown

Passion is the difference between having a job and having a career.
Unknown

Passion is the fuel that drives the engine of success.
Unknown

Passion is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Robert J. Sternberg

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success And Ambition Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

Success And Ambition Quotes About Self-Belief

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Paul Bryant

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.
Chantal Sutherland

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Brad Henry

Believe in yourself, take action, and never give up.
Ryan Reynolds

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

Believe in yourself, and the world will believe in you.
Unknown

Believe in yourself, and the universe will conspire to help you achieve your dreams.
Unknown

Believe in yourself and your abilities. That's the only way to attract success into your life.
Unknown

Success And Ambition Quotes About Embracing Change

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power

The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
Miuccia Prada

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Success And Ambition Quotes About Staying Focused

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

The successful person is the one who is able to spur himself or herself onward and upward, even when everything seems to be going against them.
Brian Tracy

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say 'no' to almost everything.
Warren Buffett

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith

The successful person is the one who can focus and concentrate on the task at hand, without getting distracted by other things.
Brian Tracy

The successful person is the one who is able to stay focused on their goals, even when things get tough.
Brian Tracy

Success And Ambition Quotes About Being Resilient

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success And Ambition Quotes About Achieving Greatness

Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how you use your talents, how hard you work, and how persistent you are.
Steve Pavlina

Success is not something that happens to you; it's something that happens because of you and the actions you take.
Grant Cardone

Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.
Jose Silva

Success is not a matter of luck, it's a matter of doing the right things consistently over time.
Unknown

Success And Ambition Quotes About Perseverance

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Success is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
Vivian Komori

Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing

Success And Ambition Quotes About Taking Risks

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
Drew Barrymore

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Author Unknown

The biggest risk is not taking risks. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.
Unknown

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Success And Ambition Quotes About Hard Work

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele

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 overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

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

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Success And Ambition Quotes About Learning From Failure

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Success is not about avoiding failure, it's about learning from failure.
Brian Tracy

Success And Ambition Quotes About Staying Motivated

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

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success And Ambition Quotes About Taking Action

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Bo Bennett

Success is not something you pursue. Success is something you attract by the person you become.
Jim Rohn

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

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