Top 55 Quotes About The Desire To Succeed
#1. The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what; the desire to...
Assegid Habtewold
#2. One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore. But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.
Abbi Glines
#3. If you've passion- the desire to succeed at all cost, there won't be any lack or limitation that could stop you. Passion wipes out excuses.
Assegid Habtewold
#4. The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
Gerald Seymour
#5. 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.
Confucius
#6. I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Hale Irwin
#7. Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.
Denis Waitley
#8. Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?
Zig Ziglar
#9. 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.
Tanya Tucker
#10. Each one of us has a unique spot in this harmonious and self-sustaining universe. If our desire is to succeed and enjoy life to the full both personally, professionally, and business wise, we should spot our unique place in the universe.
Assegid Habtewold
#11. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
#12. To succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract
William Walker Atkinson
#13. Desire lies dormant in our hearts; slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed.
Balroop Singh
#14. 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.
Stephen Covey
#15. To succeed at anything, one must have a desire to dream of things some would think is impossible.
Ellen J. Barrier
#16. 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
#17. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#18. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Simon Sinek
#19. Let your resolution and confession be, 'I will change these things because I want to succeed, and I want to succeed because it will bring me the happiness I seek and desire.
Archibald Marwizi
#20. If our thoughts and beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - are in conflict, they will cancel each other out and nothing will manifest. So if you desire success but believe you have not earned it, you will not succeed.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#21. (whom they could not find) and some sympathetic relatives. The poverty hurt, and they assumed, correctly, it had bred the intense desire to succeed.
John Grisham
#22. Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
Neil Simon
#23. It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.
Rebecca West
#24. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
Idries Shah
#25. When I fail, I feel jealous or resentful of these others. When I succeed, I worry that others will be jealous or resentful of me. I become suspicious or defensive and increasingly afraid that I won't get what I so much desire or will lose what I already have. Caught
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#26. Desire plus sacrifice plus discipline equals preparation. Preparation plus success equals confidence. Mental toughness plus pride equals perseverance. If you have confidence and persevere, you will always have the edge. If you have the edge, you will succeed. Eventually.
Steve Siebold
#27. 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
#28. 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.
Charles Garfield
#29. To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
Ovid
#30. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
#31. 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
#32. Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.
Crystal Evans
#33. A person's success is often limited by the level of their desire to succeed
Mark W. Boyer
#34. These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire - I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#35. 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
Donald Hall
#36. Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander
#37. Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure!
Lorii Myers
#38. A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#39. You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a beloved sister succeed, and a passionate desire to see a rival fall.
Philippa Gregory
#41. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
Ed Greenwood
#42. That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes
in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender
is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.
Frederick William Robertson
#43. First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
Henry Maudslay
#44. For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
#46. 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.
Mitt Romney
#47. It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#48. To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces - desire, belief, and expectation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#49. You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.
Tama J. Kieves
#50. I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#51. Don't ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your trail.
Roopleen
#52. Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed...
Assegid Habtewold
#53. If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.
Arnold Palmer
#54. To succeed in everything we do, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think are impossible.
Ellen J. Barrier
#55. You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart
