Quotes About Striving For Success

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Thomas Peterffy

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

Andre Agassi

#4. One does not fail at a task. One merely does not succeed. And since one is always striving for success, so long as one continues striving, one can never truly fail.

Margaret Weis

#5. I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

Anthony Noto

#6. I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure.

Drew Sidora

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

David Bly

#8. Realize that significance is not dependent upon success. Too many people fall into the trap of thinking, "Once I make it rich, I'll become significant." This is rarely the case. Begin striving for it now.

Joshua Becker

#9. More important than success is the individual who strives towards his goal. It is the effort which counts. The goal is just a finish line - it accomplishes there and its happiness short lived.

Amit Abraham

#10. I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madeleine K. Albright

#11. I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.

Tony Robbins

#12. I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Carolyn Wells

#13. In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

Mario Cuomo

#14. The simple recipe for success that Mendel had instilled in his children from the cradle on consisted in never complaining, never asking for anything, striving to be the best in everything you do, and never trusting anyone.

Isabel Allende

#15. You can't move things by not moving.

Suzy Kassem

#16. Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Alfred North Whitehead

#18. Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

Thomas Leonard

#19. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.

Gary Patton

#20. I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.

Noel DeJesus

#21. I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Charles Handy

#22. 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

#23. If you are striving to have a stable success and riches in joy, you need to be truly dedicated to God

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Surrender is when we stop toiling and striving and we begin receiving and arriving. Nothing is more beautiful to experience than the inner rest that follows surrender.

Shannon Tanner

#25. We found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

Katty Kay

#26. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#27. Hold it down until you come up

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#28. Always remember that striving and struggling precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#29. A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.

Jeff Merkley

#30. Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

Pindar

#31. 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

#32. Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.

Mark LaMoure

#33. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

Brene Brown

#34. It is a question of will, Mr. Wells," he said, striving to imbue his slurred voice with a tone of authority. "That's all.

Felix J. Palma

#35. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#36. Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

Shashi Tharoor

#37. Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call.

Victoria Addino

#38. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Douglas Merrill

#39. I don't need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Roy Bennett

#41. I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Criss Jami