“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Success Quotes
118 quotes on success and achievement — from the classics to the everyday.
“The glue that holds all relationships together, including the relationship between the leader and the led, is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”
Brian Tracy
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
Warren Buffett
“Motivation helps you start. Consistency is what carries you after that.”
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“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
Epicurus
“Poverty has a thousand causes, but wealth has only one.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison · attributed
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford commencement address, 2005
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill · attributed
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. 26 times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan · Nike commercial, 1997
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison · widely attributed
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill · widely attributed
“It is a great thing to achieve your dreams, but to keep being successful is more difficult than you might imagine.”
Lionel Messi
“When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, to win all the competitions.”
Lionel Messi
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else.”
Lionel Messi
“I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
Lionel Messi
“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
Lionel Messi
