Why am I posting success quotes?
Success comes in many forms and from many directions. Often it does not come easily and all the obstacles and distractions thrown in our direction will do their best to stop us from acting on our dream and achieving the success we want.
I find it helpful, when I'm going through a difficult time and the obstacles look insurmountable, to read about how others have succeeded -- in whatever way they were pursuing their dream and working to make it real.
Favorite Success Quotes
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Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.4 points
Sir Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.2 points
Sir Winston Churchill
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.2 points
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved.2 points
Mark Twain
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.2 points
Malcolm Forbes
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.1 point
Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.1 point
Thomas Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.1 point
Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self.1 point
Charles Lindbergh
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.1 point
Henry Ford
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.1 point
J.C. Penny
Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.1 point
Thomas A. Buckner
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.1 point
Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.1 point
Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.1 point
Benjamin Mays
The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.1 point
Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.1 point
Gene Roddenberry
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.1 point
Vince Lambardi
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.1 point
Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.1 point
John Maxwell
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.1 point
David Ambrose
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.1 point
Ken Evoy
Try. Make mistake. Fail. Learn.
Try better. Make mistake. Fail. Learn.
Try better still. Make mistake. Fail. Learn.
Repeat until...
Try. Succeed.1 point
Napoleon Hill
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.1 point
John D. Rockefeller
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.1 point
Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.1 point
Harry S Truman
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.1 point
Sidney Greenberg
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.1 point
Conrad Hilton
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.1 point
Kim Lyons
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.1 point
George B. Shaw
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.1 point
Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.1 point
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.1 point
Beverly Sills
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.1 point
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.1 point
Dale Carnegie
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.1 point
Ronald E. Osborn
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.1 point
John Maxwell
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.1 point
Herbert Bayard Swope
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: try to please everybody.1 point
Booker T. Washington
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 while trying to succeed.1 point
Warren Buffett
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.1 point
Napoleon Hill
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.1 point
Leonardo da Vinci
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.0 points
Satchel Paige
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.0 points
General George Patton
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.0 points
Wayne Dyer
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you.0 points
John Wooden
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.0 points
Sam Ewig
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.0 points
Irving Berlin
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.0 points
Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.0 points
Mario Cuomo
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.0 points
Robert L. Schwartz
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.0 points
Albert Pike
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.0 points
M. Sainte-Lague
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.0 points
Talleyrand
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.0 points
Ray Kroc
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.0 points
James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.0 points
Lester C. Thurow
A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change.0 points
Rosabeth Moss Cantor
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.0 points
William Menninger
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.0 points
Sandra Carey
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.0 points
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AppalachianCountry wrote...
This is an awesome lens. We enjoyed it tremendously. Thank-you for the work.
Posted May 27, 2009
rydigga wrote...
Thanks so much, this lens is bookmarked for when I need an extra boost. 5*
Posted January 06, 2009
Joan4 wrote...
John, I thoroughly enjoyed this lens. Thank you! This is a great resource for all of us. Super quotes. I think you found the best of the best!
Posted May 29, 2008
johndilbeck wrote...
I hope you will find inspiration from reading these quotes.
Please vote for your favorites, and add any that are missing.
Act on your dream!
JD
Posted August 26, 2007
by johndilbeck
John Dilbeck lives in the mountains of western North Carolina, near the small town of Murphy. He loves living in the southern Appalachian mountain... (more)
