Success Quotes

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Ecce Homo (1888) Actually more accurately translated as "What does not kill him, makes him stronger," but is often paraphrased as the quote listed. Add Category or Author

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." — Napoleon Hill
As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) As one of the pioneers of self-empowerment literature, this quote is famously attributed to Hill, though no further specific contextual information is available. Add Category or Author

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." — Will Rogers
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"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." — George Burns
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison
Commonly attributed to Edison and certainly in-line with his tone and things he frequently spoke about. Add Category or Author

"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors." — Norman Vincent Peale
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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
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"There are no gains without pains." — Benjamin Franklin
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"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." — Zig Ziglar
Secrets of Closing the Sale (1984) Add Category or Author

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing." — Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855) Written in a letter by Lincoln to one Isham Reavis, who was engaged in the process of becoming a lawyer. The above quote was part of Lincoln's response. Also notable in the same letter was, "If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not." Add Category or Author

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." — Thomas Jefferson
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." — Thomas A. Edison
As quoted in Civilization's quotations: life's ideal (2002) pg. 218 This quotation is frequently used in an entrepreneurial sense. Add Category or Author

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas A. Edison
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"To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards success and then take more of them." — Larina Kase
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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." — George Woodberry
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"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." — Vince Lombardi
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"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." — Dale Carnegie
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"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first." — William Shakespeare
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." — Bill Cosby
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau
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