Trying To Succeed Quotes

• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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  People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

  Michael Korda

  Failure, Successful, People

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda (p.240), 1977.

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• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

  Samuel Smiles

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.352

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• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Attitude, Business, Failure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.926, e-artnow

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• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  Failure, Envy, Political

  Quoted in Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 3 Nov. 1978

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• To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

  David Viscott

  Hurt, Failure, Thinking

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Trying, Spiders, Firsts

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Michael Korda

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

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• If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Running, Stupid

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• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Motivational, Success, Faith

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

  Lloyd Jones

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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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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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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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, Success, Encouragement

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

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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