College Success Quotes

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person.  Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.