Inspirational Quotes : Success
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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.
Vince Lombardi
2
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
3
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
4
Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.
Marva Collins
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
7
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
Chinese Proverbs
8
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
9
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.
10
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
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
