Quotes About Success
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Success Quotations
Success quotations motivate and inspire many people.
When I was a little girl, my dad's friend had a box on his desk labeled, "The Secret To Success." When my little fingers eagerly lifted the box lid to see what the secret was, the word "Work" was such a disappointment to find in there. My young mind was looking for something that was attainable!
The secret of success was not a secret at all for me then, but now, I know that working toward, and for, what you want to be and become in life is the only way there is. If you work to succeed, you will.
Be motivated by my list of success quotes. Inspire yourself here to be successful in all you do! Inspire yourself to be your best you!
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Quotations About Success
Motivation to succeed at the game of life

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. —Jack Kerouac
Success is not the key to happiness — happiness is the key to success. —Unknown
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. —Vincent Van Gogh
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. —George Sheehan
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. —Woodrow Wilson
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. —Orison Swett Marden
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia. —Russel H. Conwell
Success doesn't come to you — you go to it. —Marva Collins
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. —Albert Einstein
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. —Earl Nightingale
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, 
but rather in a lack of will. —Vincent T. Lombardi
Failure is success if we learn from it. —Malcolm Forbes
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. —Carl Jung
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. —Mark Twain
Whether you think you can or think you can't — you're right. —Henry Ford
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent... —Calvin Coolidge
Motivational Success Quotes
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sousababy
Jan 13, 2012 @ 10:33 am | delete
- The best learned lessons are through failure - provided we are WILLING to learn. True power comes in a gentle wave (another one I love). Came back to google +1 this gem.
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ajgodinho Jan 1, 2012 @ 4:14 pm | delete
- Powerful quotes on success you've showcased here, MiMi! I particularly like the ones that show the positive side of failure, that is, turning failures into success. Like Christ said..."everything is possible to him who believes." Wishing you a year filled with much success, peace, love and blessings! :)
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Dec 10, 2011 @ 9:26 am | delete
- You have so many of my favorite quotations here. Very inspiring collection of wisdom. One of the quotes I've had on my office wall for years is from a 1910 speech by Theodore Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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jptanabe
Nov 11, 2011 @ 10:59 am | delete
- Love these quotes about success! Mimi, you encouraged me to believe I could be a Giant Squid, and I did. Without you and Team One I would have remained a floundering baby Squid and never grown to love Squidoo. So here I am giving you thanks for that!
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tcorbs
Oct 30, 2011 @ 7:11 am | delete
- “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.” ~Regina Brett
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FunMoneyBusiness
Oct 10, 2011 @ 5:26 am | delete
- "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure." —Jim Rohn
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christopherwell
Oct 8, 2011 @ 1:11 pm | delete
- "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure." -- Thomas J. Watson
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BilingualHypnotist
Sep 28, 2011 @ 10:07 am | delete
- very nice, it's important to read these wise quotes every now and then to maintain our focus and motivation
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Harshitha
Sep 16, 2011 @ 4:02 am | delete
- Very nice, enjoyed all the quotes.
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cstronner
Sep 14, 2011 @ 5:32 am | delete
- Great lens. Very inspirational :)
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