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Inspirational Quotes about Success

Famous Success Quotes - Quotes on Success

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success Quotes

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

Nothing can bring you success but yourself.
- Napoleon Hill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win.
- Vince Lombardi

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes on Success

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound - so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quotes about Success

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anaïs Nin

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

The success of a project is best predicted by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Famous Quotes about Success

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

Successful Quotes

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
- Alan Greenspan

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege.
Use it. Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

Success Quotes by Famous People

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
(basketball coach)

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quotes for Success

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Inspiring Quotes for Success

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Famous Success Quotes

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

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Famous Quotes on Success

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
(basketball player)

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Quotes about Success in Life

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Bringing a childlike wonder and a beginner's mind to life maximize both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't give up.
There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
- Michelle Obama

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw


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