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Success.

The pursuit of goals, achievement, and leaving a legacy.

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.”

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

Winston Churchill

“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”

“In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'”

Charles Spurgeon

“Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'”

“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”

William Shakespeare

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”

Charles Dickens

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

Albert Einstein

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

George S. Patton

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”

Susan B. Anthony

“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

“For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”

“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“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.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”

Albert Einstein

“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”

“In life lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough. You must take action.”

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

Margaret Thatcher

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Win through your actions, never through argument.”

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”

John D. Rockefeller

“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.”

“Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?”

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.”

John C. Maxwell

“Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.”

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”