Wise Words About Success

Zig Ziglar

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

William Butler Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Virginia Woolf

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Oprah Winfrey

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There’s no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Colson Whitehead

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Edna Gardner Whyte

I'll show you what a woman can do. I'll go across the country, I'll race to the moon . . . I'll never look back.

Alice Walker

Look closely at the present you’re constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.

Roger Von Oech

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Paul Valery

There is in you what is beyond you

Abigail Van Buren

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.

Célestine Hitiura Vaite

It takes courage for a fruit to fall far from her tree.