“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Ryun
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Success Quotes
118 quotes on success and achievement — from the classics to the everyday.
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford University commencement, 2005
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford University commencement, 2005
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
Elizabeth Gilbert · Big Magic, 2015
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Every great piece of music is a set of problems solved so well that the listener never notices the problems existed.”
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“A melody that costs you nothing is worth exactly that.”
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“Originality is mostly just stubbornness applied to a very small idea.”
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