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Literary success quotations, secret to success quotes and success quotes for the future can help you to move towards success yourself, with their inspiring messages. There are so many quotes by famous people about success that it can be hard sorting through the sheer volume to find a treasure. We have done it for you by picking out the very best here.
"There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!" - Jack Canfield
Quotes on key to success
Literary success quotations come from all sorts of sources. Here is a crucial message on success from Napoleon:
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Strong quotations about success
Your success quotations will help to define your path to success.
Think about these special choices of ours:
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is to try to please everyone
Bill Cosby"
"The secret of my success is that I bit off more than
I could chew and chewed as fast as I could"
Paul Hogan
"Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value"
Albert Einstein
More Success Quotes
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed"; you find that it simply means to follow through"
F. W. Nichol
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
Aristotle
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to"
George E. Allen
"It's always too soon to quit"
Norman Vincent Peale
"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful"
Malcolm S. Forbes
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"You got to do before you can be, you got to be before you can have"
Zig Ziglar
"Earn all that you can, save all that you can, and give all that you can"
John Wesley
"Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgement"
Tony Robbins
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary"
Anonymous
"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents"
Eric Hoffer
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience"
Jean De La BruyèRe
"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet"
Roy D. Chapin Jr.
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins... not through strength, but through persistence"
Unknown
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison
"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top"
Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success"
Henry Ford
"Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down."
Anonymous
"If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go"
John B. Gough
"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take"
Peter F. Drucker
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves"
Dale Carnegie
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure"
Earl Nightingale
"The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't"
Zig Ziglar
"Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are"
Jim Rohn
"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it"
Josephus Daniels
"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems"
Mark Victor Hansen
Quotes by famous people about success
An interesting thing is that not only do most of these quotes come from famous people - but you will often hear famous successful people quoting others about success. I guess the hint here is that we can certainly learn from others who have been successful before us.
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