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Quotes Succes
Quotes Succes
It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”
Walt Disney
“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in
life.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when
he hits bottom.”
General George S. Patton
“Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only
feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.”
Michael J. Gelb
“My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.”
Jean Paul Getty
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others
throw at him.”
Sidney Greenberg
“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and
loved much.”
Elbert Green Hubbard
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They
quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from the
winning touch.
H. Ross Perot
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get
along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made.”
Robert H. Schuller
“Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people
who simply don’t know how to quit.”
Robert M. Schuller
“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”
Charles M. Schwab
“I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and
women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything
they had of energy and enthusiasm.”
Henry Truman
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
Mark Twain
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life,
as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
“Opportunity doesn’t knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
Kyle Chandler
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is
more common that 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 are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
William Feather
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
“If there is a way to do it better, find it.”
Thomas A. Edison
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection
of children… To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition… to know even one
life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If at first you don’t succeed, don’t take anymore stupid chances.”
Unknown
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Chinese proverb
“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.”
Vince Lombardi
“To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.”
Sister Mary Lauretta
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln