Quotes About Success

God has given you the gift of his Son, not to make your little kingdom successful, but to welcome you to a much better kingdom. Now what in the world does that mean? Paul David Tripp

Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

We all fail somehow, someway every day. Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

pays pretty well, and does not involve getting my hands dirty or risking death. And I will remind them that, whatever else they may achieve

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.

We act not to gain the fruits of our actions but because this is how the Christ-Spirit or our Buddha-nature acts, though we rejoice when our actions do bear fruit. The well-worn dictum applies: "We are not called to be successful, but to be faithful" to what we are, though we also know that if ever there is to be success, it will come out of such fidelity.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

Now, even in the growing days of his success, he was girl shy. His mother was all he wanted. He did not realize it, but this was to cause him heartache later when the thing happened he did not ever believe or dream would happen … that he would fall happily in love.

To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'. To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.