Inspirational Quotes : Success
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Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.
Marva Collins
2
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3
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
4
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
Chinese Proverbs
5
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
6
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.
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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
9
Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.
Bill Bowerman (quoted in Nike’s ad for Olympic 2008) thanks Phillip!
10
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
