Find Your Purpose

Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexander Dumas

Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles

What some invent the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift

Helicopter: An egg beater with ambition - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle

You know what's funny to me? Attitude. - Don Rickles

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. - Oliver Goldsmith

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. - Tony Hsieh

Don't look for perfection. That isn't the goal. - Ash Maurya

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. - John D Rockefeller

Desire is the key that opens the door when opportunity knocks. - Unknown

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. - Arthur Ashe

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale

The height of your persistence will decide the height of your success. - Unknown

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. - Samuel Goldwyn

Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. - Christian Dior

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. - John Madden

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. - Vic Braden

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. - Ambrose Bierce

Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. - Ben Okri

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele