Past Success Quotes

Never rest on past success. Create something better.

Ron Kaufman

Past, Service Culture, Something Better

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Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Motivation, Past, Use

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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

Robert Greene

War, Past, Battle

Robert Greene (2010). “The 33 Strategies Of War”, p.18, Profile Books

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

Conrad Hilton

Past, Forward Motion, Satisfied

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

Motivational, Mistake, Past

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

Colin Powell

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.

Valentino Rossi

Humility, Hard Work, Home

"I still have the strength to go head-to-head with my rivals". Yamaha Motor Intreview, global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

George Washington Carver

New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

Jay Maisel

Photography, Past, Able

Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.202, New Riders

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Change, Positive

Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.

Barack Obama

Wise, Military, Smart

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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Saul Alinsky

Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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The world is full of educated derelicts.

Calvin Coolidge

Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Joe Strummer

Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Brian Tracy

Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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Do your best with what you have where you are.

Lucy Punch

New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

Marianne Williamson

Art, Fall, Character

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Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

Jack Canfield

Success, Confidence, Self Esteem

FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 08, 2013

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