Quotes About Success

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

Performance releases pressure.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.