Everyone needs to be inspired now and then. These quotes are great because you know the person who said them has been there before, knows what you’re going through, and is proof that you can succeed too.
“If you want to succeed, first help others to succeed.” Japanese Proverb
“Do you stop yourself by your own attitude?” –from Quotations on Life
“To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.” –George Bernard Shaw
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” –Dale Carnegie
“In everything we do, our own thoughts can help us succeed, or they can help us fail. Maintain a positive attitude.” –Catherine Pulsifer
“One fails forward toward success.” –Charles F. Kettering
“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!” –Henry Ford
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.“– John Paul Getty
“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” –Thomas Fuller
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” –Nelson Mandela
“Goals have made a tremendous difference in my life. They have allowed me to achieve success, and to accomplish what I had previously only dreamed of, or wished for.” –Catherine Pulsifer
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” –Albert Einstein
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.” –Confucius
“We weren’t born to think negatively, we were taught to do so.” Cypert Samuel
“Dedication will allow you to attain success in areas that YOU want.” –Catherine Pulsifer
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” –Arnold H. Glasow
“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” –John Paul Getty
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” –Mark Twain
“Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.” –Bernard M. Baruch
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” –Benjamin Disraeli
“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.” –Norman Vincent Peale
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” –Dale Carnegie
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” –Bernard M. Baruch
“You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.” –Orison Swett Marden
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –Henry David Thoreau
“Successful minds work like a gimlet, – to a single point.” –Bovee
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.” –Ovid
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