The Collection of Goal and Success Quotes

Maybe you're asking me why among all famous quotations and sayings I chose to collect and write about "success" quotes. For one main reason, I've chosen this topic because I believe that everyone wants to become successful. Who doesn't want it, anyway? I know that there are people that no matter how hard it is for them to become successful, they never lose hope. They never let obstacles to hinder their ways. That's why we have successful people to look up to, and to inspire us to keep moving forward.

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." --George Edward Woodberry

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." --Dale Carnegie

"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" --Logan P. Smith

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." --George Burns

"If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed." --Juliana Hatfield

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." --Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." --Ross Perot

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." --Bill Gates

"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

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." --Joe Paterno

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." --Ayn Rand

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."--John Foster Dulles

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."--Irving Berlin

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." --Larry King

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." --Dale Carnegie

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ~Ayn Rand

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~Og Mandino

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ~William James

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

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. ~Kevin Smith

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett

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

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going. ~Robert Brault

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. ~Fitzhugh Dodson

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

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.-Benjamin Mays

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. -Bo Jackson

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. -Oliver Wendell Holmes