Success Quotes - 166 quotes

The meaning of success can be deeply personal and subjective. Broadly speaking, success is the achievement of a goal or the attainment of a desired outcome. It can be measured in various ways depending on individual aspirations and values. Examples of professional success may include earning a pr... show more

 James Farmer, Sr.: What do we do here? James Farmer, Jr.: We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do. James Farmer, Sr.: And what do you have to do right now? James Farmer, Jr.: My homework. James Farmer, Sr.: So get to it.
- The Great Debaters (2007 Movie)
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 I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot, and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
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 I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
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 I have more and more people telling me I must be so overjoyed and amazed by the success and the bigness. How big everything is getting. But the bigger things get the less likely they really are to be sustainable. Or to be personal.
- Gotye
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 Perhaps maybe I feel a tinge of regret when I sense that when things get to a certain scale, when things get maybe too big, it's really hard to keep it personal. I think there's a scale beyond which you can't really, truly communicate with a large number of people.
- Gotye
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 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
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 I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

- Aaron Lynch

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 Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

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 We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

- Adrienne Rich

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 The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

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 Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

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 I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

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 Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

- Brian Tracy

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 Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

- Bruce Lee

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 There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

- Carrie Fisher

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 Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

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 There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

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 Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

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 Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

- Dave Ramsey

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 A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

- David Brinkley

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 Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

- David Frost

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 There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.

- Deepak Chopra

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 I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

- Donald Trump

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 Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

- Earl Nightingale

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 Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration.

- Evan Esar

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 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

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 If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

- Frederick Douglass

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 If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

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 The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

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 If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

- Jim Rohn

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 If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

- Jim Rohn

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 Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

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 You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.

- Jim Rohn

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 Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

- Jim Rohn

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 Watch for the right time and season, show gratitude for your gifts by magnifying and using them with pure intentions with an eye single to the glory of God and He will bless your efforts.

- JoAnn Larsen

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 If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

- John D. Rockefeller

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 The biggest impediment to success is rarely a lack of ideas or strategies—it’s an inability to influence people to carry out those ideas or strategies. In others words, it’s a failure of leadership.

- Joseph Grenny

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

- Joyce Brothers

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 The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

- Joyce Brothers

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 Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

- Joyce Meyer

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 Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

- Joyce Meyer

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 Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

- Kobe Bryant

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 Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

- Marianne Williamson

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 Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant

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 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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 The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first.

- Mark Twain

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 Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

- Marlon Wayans

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 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.

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 Imposing a strict system of quantified metrics to evaluate and reward performance has serious deleterious unintended consequences. It induces gaming of the system, a kind of rent-seeking behavior that adds nothing to productivity and often detracts. It siphons attention toward goals whose achievement can be measured and away from goals whose achievement is difficult or impossible to measure but may be of greater importance.

- Michael Edesess

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 It poisons employees’ desire to do their job by substituting external and often arbitrary-seeming requirements for internal motivation.

- Michael Edesess

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 In K-12 education, government programs such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) led to extensive gaming and even cheating. Teachers’ schools’ funding, and their own employment, was dependent on their students’ performance on standardized, government-mandated math and English exams. Hence, many teachers spent much of their class time “teaching to the test.” This moved the emphasis toward test-taking and away from arguably more important activities with unmeasurable results, such as cultivating students’ capacity for intellectual curiosity, good behaviour, and creative thought and innovation.

- Michael Edesess

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 As Muller explains, part of the reason for the increase in metricization is that employees and executives are not trusted. Therefore, quantitative requirements are imposed on their behavior to keep them in line. In response, they behave in precisely those ways that the quantification model expects them to behave. And by gaming the quantification system and cheating, they make it appear that the measurement system is working. And yet, the ultimately desired results are not improved and are often even made worse.

- Michael Edesess

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 But it feeds the expectations of funders that low overhead is the measure they should be looking at to hold charities accountable. Thus the snake of accountability eats its own tail.

- Michael Edesess

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 The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

- Michael Korda

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 To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

- Michael Korda

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 I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

- Mike Tyson

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 If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

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 He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

- Muhammad Ali

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 The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

- Nancy Astor

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 If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill

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 The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

- Napoleon Hill

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 Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Napoleon Hill

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 One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

- Napoleon Hill

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 Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Nolan Ryan

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 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.

- Nora Roberts

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 Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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 Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

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 Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

- Oprah Winfrey

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 In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

- Oscar Wilde

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 I realized at some point that you can do anything if you love it enough. I don't think I do anything special. It's just that I stick around things that I love. When I do that, everything tends to fall into place very quickly.

- Pardis Sabeti

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 If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

- Paulo Coelho

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 The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

- Ray Kroc

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 A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

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 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

- Robert Collier

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 Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

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 Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

- Robert H. Schuller

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 Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

- Robert Kiyosaki

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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

- Robert Orben

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 The very first word in the Doctrine and Covenants is hearken.12 It means “to listen with the intent to obey.”13 To hearken means to “hear Him”—to hear what the Savior says and then to heed His counsel. In those two words—“Hear Him”—God gives us the pattern for success, happiness, and joy in this life. We are to hear the words of the Lord, hearken to them, and heed what He has told us!

- Russell M. Nelson

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 Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

- Samuel Johnson

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 What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

- Samuel Johnson

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 What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

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 A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction.

- Steve Harvey

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 In our course we teach that "no thought lives in your head rent-free." Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost. It will either move you toward happiness and success or away from it. It will either empower you or disempower you. That's why it is imperative you choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.

- T. Harv Eker

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 Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas Edison

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 The more success or money you get, the more you should simplify your life. The more you should spend time with the people who will be by your side no matter what.

- Tiffany Sonnier

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 The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

- Tony Robbins

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 Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.

- Tony Robbins

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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

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 Failure is not getting knocked down. Failure is not getting back up.

- Vince Lombardi

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 Success demands singleness of purpose.

- Vince Lombardi

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 Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

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 Success is never so interesting as struggle

- Willa Cather

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 Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

- William Shakespeare

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 Eighty percent of success is showing up.

- Woody Allen

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 The first thing you might try to do is challenge yourself to define success. What does it mean to you to be successful? It is vital that you don't get your success from your peers or the general public that you can never please. You should first of all feel success for your own self.

- Yavor Ivanov

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 You don't pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.

- Zig Ziglar

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 The Secret to Getting Anything You Want in Life
- Jennifer Cohen
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 Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

- Abdul Kalam

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 Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

- Aeschylus

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 Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

- Al Bernstein

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 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

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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 People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

- Andrew Carnegie

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 A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

- Arthur Golden

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 Your success as a family, Our success as a society, Depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens in your house.

- Barbara P. Bush

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 The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

- Baron de Montesquieu

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 One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

- Benjamin Disraeli

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 You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

- Benjamin Franklin

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 It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

- Ben Stein

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 Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

- Bobby Unser

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 There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

- Buckminster Fuller

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 Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

- Dalai Lama

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 Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

- David Brooks

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 We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

- David Cooperrider

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 There are no speed limits on the road to success.

- David W. Johnson

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 A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

- Dawn Staley

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 Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

- Denis Waitley

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 A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

- Denis Waitley

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 If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

- Donny Osmond

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 Real success doesn't care how you get there.

- Ernie J. Zelinski

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 I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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 The best revenge is massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

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 "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

- George Bernard Shaw

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 Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

- George Bernard Shaw

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 I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

- George Burns

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 It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

- Hans Asperger

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 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

- Henry David Thoreau

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 The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

- Henry David Thoreau

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 Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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 For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

- James Allen

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 It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

- Joel Osteen

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 If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

- John Bartholomew Gough

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 I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

- Kobe Bryant

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 There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships.

- Kobe Bryant

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 The road to success is always under construction.

- Lily Tomlin

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 To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

- Mark Twain

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 Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

- Marva Collins

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 We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.

- Michael Jordan

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 The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

- Michael Jordan

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 Winning isn't always championships.

- Michael Jordan

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 To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

- Michael Jordan

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 Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

- Michael Jordan

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 To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

- Munshi Premchand

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 One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

- Napoleon Hill

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 Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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 I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

- Oprah Winfrey

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 Impossible is just an opinion.

- Paulo Coelho

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 Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

- Richard Branson

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 When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

- Robert Foster Bennett

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 You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.

- Robert Griffin III

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 Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.

- Rory Vaden

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 People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

- Stephen Keshi

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 One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

- Sting

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 Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

- Sumner Redstone

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 I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

- Vince Lombardi

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 The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vince Lombardi

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 Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

- Walter Cronkite

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 Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.

- Wilferd Peterson

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 All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

- William Halsey

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 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

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 Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

- Winston Churchill

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 I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

- Zig Ziglar

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