Success Quotes - Page 17

• What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Anger, Inspiration, Recovery

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• I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Encouragement, Failure

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God”, Image

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Perseverance, Business

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Money, Business, Optimistic

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Business, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 20, 2013

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Educational

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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• Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Men, Giving

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Future

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Thinking, Self, Way

  Booker T. Washington (2007). “The Story of My Life and Work”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1004, Penguin

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• If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

  Orson Scott Card

  Inspirational, Motivational Work, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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  If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year". Book by Norman Vincent Peale. Entry for April 13, 1993.

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• Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from May 03, 2016

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• Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

  Amelia Earhart

  Responsibility, Experience, Realizing

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