Success Quotes
Success quotes inspire us to be better people. When we look to success quotes from famous and noteworthy sources, we gain insight into what it takes to be successful. Abraham Lincoln, for example, was formally educated for only about a year. The rest of his education was self-taught.
Success quotes come from all sorts of people and all walks of life, but we look to those who have acheived great success historically to find the secrets of greatness.
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." Mother Teresa |
"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job." ~ Chin-ning Chu |
"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." ~George Bernard Shaw |
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"Sometimes will can overcome skill. If a man is supremely determined, he can accomplish anything." Muhammad Ali |
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others let go.” ~ William Feather |
"I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it." ~Jonathan Winters |
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“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton |
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ~Robert J. Collier |
"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins." ~Gene Fowler |
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"What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it." ~ The 4 Hour Workweek |
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden |
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill |
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"You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better." ~ The 4 Hour Workweek |
"So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?" ~Lou Holtz |
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." ~ Woody Allen |
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"Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre." ~ The 4 Hour Workweek |
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."~ Lou Holtz |
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result." ~ Michael Jordan |
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"Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are." ~ The 4 Hour Workweek |
"In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention." ~Lou Holtz |
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. ~ Albert Schweitzer |
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“Greatness truly exists in all of us.” ~ Will Smith |
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~ Albert Schweitzer |
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"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." ~ Will Smith |
