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Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
May these quotes about success give you direction and suggest answers to the question, "How to be Successful in Life."
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
-
Napoleon Hill
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
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
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
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one.
-
Mark Twain
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-
Napoleon Hill
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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- Anonymous
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-
Thomas A. Edison
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
-
Lee Iacocca
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
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
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-
George Washington Carver
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The success of a project is best predicted by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
-
Elbert Hubbard
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
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
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
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
-
Bill Gates
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial,
hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules.
Sports teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose, it teaches you about life.
- Billie Jean King
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May you be successful in life in whatever ways you choose.
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