Quote from Booker T. Washington

"Success is not to be measured by the position that one has reached in life, but the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." — Booker T. Washington 

Quote from Robert H Schuller

 I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." — Robert H Schuller 

Quote by Nora Roberts

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." — Nora Roberts 

Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

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"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." —Paramahansa Yogananda 

Quote from Ken Venturi

"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." — Ken Venturi 

Quote from Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." — Albert Einstein 

Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something." — Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Quote from Henry Ford

"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right." — Henry Ford 

Quote by Louis Binstock

"Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness." — Louis Binstock 

Quote from Dale Carnegie

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." — Dale Carnegie 

Quote from Og Mandino

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." — Og Mandino 

Quote of the day by Pope VI

"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." — Pope VI 

Quote by Gordon Hinckley

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." — Gordon Hinckley 

Quote by Margaret Thatcher

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction." —Margaret Thatcher 

Quote from Emile Zola

"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." — Emile Zola 

Quote from Pat Riley

"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning." — Pat Riley 

Quote from Zig Ziglar

"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure." — Zig Ziglar 

Quote from Paul Coffey

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top." — Paul Coffey 

Quote from Lou Holtz

"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." — Lou Holtz 

Quote from Catfish Hunter

"Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is." — Catfish Hunter 

Quote from Rhonda Britten

"Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts." —Rhonda Britten 

Quote from Lord Alfred Tennyson

"No rock is so hard but that a little wave may beat it into admission in a thousand years." — Lord Alfred Tennyson 

Quote from Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." —Eleanor Roosevelt 

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." — Niccolo Machiavelli 

Quote by David Viscott

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." —David Viscott 

Quote by Henry Kaiser

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." — Henry Kaiser 

Quote from Wayne Dyer

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside." — Wayne Dyer 

Quote from William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." — William Shakespeare 

Quote by Author Unknown

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." — Author Unknown 

Quote from Sydney Smith

"Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing" — Sydney Smith 

Quote by Brooks Robinson

"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job." — Brooks Robinson 

Quote by Beverly Sills

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." — Beverly Sills 

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments." — Henry Ward Beecher

Quote from John Burroughs

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice" — John Burroughs 

Quote by Jessica Savitch

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one." — Jessica Savitch 

Quote by William James

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." — William James 

Quote by Walt Disney

"If you can dream it, you can do it." — Walt Disney 

Quote by Wayne Gretzky

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it." — Wayne Gretzky 

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." — Thomas Jefferson 

Quote by Evander Holyfield

"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters." — Evander Holyfield 

Quote from Alfred Montapert

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast." — Alfred Montapert 

Quote by Bryant McGill

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"Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are." — Bryant McGill 

Quotes from William Burroughs

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." — William Burroughs 

Quote from Napoleon Bonaparte

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." — Napoleon Bonaparte 

Quote from John Wooden

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it." — John Wooden 

Quote from Abraham Lincoln

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." — Abraham Lincoln 

Quote from Samuel Johnson

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." — Samuel Johnson 

Quote from Anonymous

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"Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world." — Anonymous 

Quote from Author Unknown

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"Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again." — Author Unknown 

Quote from John Fitzgerald

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." — John Fitzgerald 

Quote from John Wooden

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it." — John Wooden 

Quote from Mark Twain

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." — Mark Twain 

Quote from John Wooden

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it." — John Wooden 

Quote from Abraham Lincoln

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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." — Abraham Lincoln 

Quote from Mario Cuomo

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"There are only two rules for being successful; one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. " — Mario Cuomo 

Quote from Oprah Winfrey

"You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." — Oprah Winfrey 

Quote from Robert Gallagher

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward." — Robert Gallagher 

Quote from George Patton

"Always do more than is required of you." — George Patton 

Quote from Norman Vincent Peale

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have." — Norman Vincent Peale 

Quote from Joseph Joubert

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." — Joseph Joubert 

Quote from Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill 

Quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Quote from Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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"Perserverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves glorious success." — Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 

Quote from Lee Iacocca

"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people." — Lee Iacocca