Success Quotes: Inspiration for Your Ascent - Page 54

Learn from the successful with quotes that outline paths to success. Inspire your personal and professional growth. Page 54 provides more success quotes.

Image of Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
- Helen Keller
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Image of Magic Johnson
Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
- Magic Johnson
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Image of William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
- William James
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Image of Robert Baden-Powell
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
- Robert Baden-Powell
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Image of Steve Jobs
Overnight success stories take a long time.
- Steve Jobs
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Image of Lynda Obst
Everything can be undone, including success.
- Lynda Obst
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Image of Michael Jordan
Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.
- Michael Jordan
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Image of Alice Foote MacDougall
In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.
- Alice Foote MacDougall
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Image of Michael Jackson
"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
- Michael Jackson
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Image of Joseph Joubert
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Garry Kasparov
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of John F. Kennedy
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Ashley Judd
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.
- Ashley Judd
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Image of Steve Jobs
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
- Steve Jobs
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Image of William James
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
- William James
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Image of John F. Kennedy
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Garry Kasparov
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of Garry Kasparov
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Jon Bon Jovi
Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
- Jon Bon Jovi
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Image of Joseph Joubert
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Hubert H. Humphrey
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
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Image of Jay-Z
I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
- Jay-Z
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Image of Dwayne Johnson
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to mince about was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
- Dwayne Johnson
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Image of Anatoly Karpov
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
- Anatoly Karpov
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Image of Anatoly Karpov
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
- Anatoly Karpov
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Garry Kasparov
Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of Garry Kasparov
If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of Garry Kasparov
Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of Helen Keller
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
- Helen Keller
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Sugar Ray Leonard
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
- Sugar Ray Leonard
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Image of Vince Lombardi
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
- Vince Lombardi
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Image of Stan Lee
I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.
- Stan Lee
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Image of Ann Landers
If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.
- Ann Landers
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Image of Dov Davidoff
I would imagine that most of the people who consider themselves successful aren't, at least in the ways that really matter-myself included.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Vince Lombardi
In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.
- Vince Lombardi
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Image of Walter Lippmann
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of Stan Lee
To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.
- Stan Lee
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Image of Ann Landers
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
- Ann Landers
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Image of Sugar Ray Leonard
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
- Sugar Ray Leonard
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Image of Honore de Balzac
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
- Honore de Balzac
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Image of Tom Baker
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
- Tom Baker
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Image of Billie Jean King
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
- Billie Jean King
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Image of Billie Jean King
Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.
- Billie Jean King
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Robert Kiyosaki
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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