Quotes about Success
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
— Henry B. Eyring
Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.
— Henry B. Eyring
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
— Henry David Thoreau
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
— Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute?
— Henry David Thoreau
it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is once well done is done forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
At times emerging leaders limit their future possibilities by their impatience. They look for shortcuts to success, but God is methodical. He typically lays a foundation of character before building a superstructure of leadership.
— Henry Blackaby
God taught Joshua the key to people's success is not the rung they reach on the corporate ladder but the level of intimacy they reach with God.
— Henry Blackaby
Jesus does not need your resolutions, your recommitments, or your promises to try harder this year. If your resolve to obey God last year did not help you to be faithful, it will not make you successful this year. Jesus asks for your love. If you truly love Him, your service for Him in the new year will be of the quality that He desires.
— Henry Blackaby
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
— Herman Melville
There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.
— Tim Tebow