We’ve all been there before. That moment when you’re about to conquer something you’ve been working towards for what feels like forever, only to have someone shoot you down with a half-hearted “Congrats!” or a flat, “You’ll get there eventually.” It can be disheartening.
But instead of letting these naysayers get to you, use their words as fuel to propel you forward. Here are some of the best dread quotes on success in life that will inspire you to reach your goals, no matter what anyone else says.
Dread Quotes On Success In Life
- “If you don’t have any dread, you’re not going to have any success.” -Pablo Picasso
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” -Michael Jordan
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” -Steve Jobs
- “You can’t put a limit on how much you can improve and how much you can do. There are no limits on what you can be, do, or have in life.” -Tony Robbins
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” -Steve Jobs
- There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
- I am a great believer in luck; the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock
- Success is not final, and failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
- Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do.-Steve Jobs
- Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. -Steve Jobs
- If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” -Steve Jobs
- Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.- Steve Jobs
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”- Steve Jobs
- “In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.” ~ William H. Wharton
- “I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.” ~ Margrethe II of Denmark
- “Hollywood… a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.” ~ Dirk Benedict
- “My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.” ~ Charles Inglis
- “Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.” ~ Beatrice Webb
- “The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.” ~ Jack Cade
- “The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.” ~ June Jordan , Dread quotes nation
- “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.” ~ William Goldman
- “I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.” ~ George Combe
- “He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.” ~ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
- “His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer’d and as God He taught.” ~ Edmund Waller
- “As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.” ~ Hans Selye
- “Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.” ~ Benjamin Spock
- “How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” ~ Bram Stoker
- “The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.” ~ Ice T
- “Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.” ~ Owain Glyndwr
- “Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.” ~ James Wolfe
- “I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.” ~ John Mortimer
- “I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself.” ~ Dennis Potter
- “Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.” ~ Rajneesh
- “It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- “We hope vaguely but dread precisely.” ~ Paul Valery
- “In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.” ~ Peter Wessel Zapffe
- “Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard