Inspirational Quotes : Success
1
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
2
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
3
Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.
Marva Collins
4
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
6
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
Chinese Proverbs
7
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
8
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
Lou Holtz, one of college football’s most successful coaches. He catapulted University of South Carolina’s football team to a level unprecedented in the 107 years of the school history. From zero victory 1999, the team won the Outback Bowl and a place in the final top 20 national poll in just his second year as a coach.
9
The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
from the poem: The Ladder of St. Augustine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
11
Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.
Bill Bowerman (quoted in Nike’s ad for Olympic 2008) thanks Phillip!
