Find Your Purpose

Passion + Planning = Success - Barry Farber

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. - Elvis Presley

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Unknown

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. - Oscar Wilde

Ambition is destruction, only competence matters. - Jill Robinson

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. - Peter F Drucker

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. - John Boorman

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. - Robert A. Heinlein

I wake up with a good attitude every day. Then idiots happen. - Unknown

To be happy in the home is the ultimate result of all ambition. - Samuel Johnson

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. - Sam Ewing

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

In order to please others, we lose our hold on our life's purpose. - Epictetus

Some quick advice for success in life: Don't be afraid, be amazing. - Cuthbert Soup

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig van Beethoven

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - Napoleon Bonaparte

With birds flying around, man's desire for having wings rises to infinite. - Mehmet M Ildan

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. That's success. - Tom Petty

One often goes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. - David Bly

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham

Success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it. - Paul Harvey

My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. - Liza Minnelli

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings

Whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. - Colin Powell

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. - James Cameron

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi