Achieved Success Quotes:

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Doubted, Achieved Success

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Giving Credit, Inspirational Achievement

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Perseverance, Best Success, Inspirational Determination

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Motivational, Success, Meaningful, Odds Against You, Against All Odds

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Achievement

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Best Success, Inspirational History

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Is Not Measured

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Planners, Perseverance And Hard Work

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Success, Time, My Mistakes, Mistakes You've Made

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Source Of Life, Innovation And Business

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Dare To Try, Daring To Be Great

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Success, Inspirational Achievement, Student Success

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Social Good, Failure In Life

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Achievement, Inspiring Presidential

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Motivational, Success, Congratulations, Inspirational Goal, Taking Risks

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Do your best with what you have where you are.

- Lucy Punch

topic: Where You Are, Social Good, Inspirational Achievement, New Career, Inspirational Charity

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

topic: Success, Persistence, Will And Determination, Inspirational Hard Work, Sure Thing

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

source: "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Future, Blooming

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

- Porter Stansberry

topic: Moving Slowly, Accomplishment, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Success Is Not Measured

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

- Sarah Burton

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Success Mantra, Ultimate Success, Vocabulary Words

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

source: "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty, Joint Efforts, Inspirational Team

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Intelligent Man, Laugh And Love

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Change, Improving Yourself

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

The best revenge is the massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Pursue Your Dreams, Source Of Life, Innovation Inspiration, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational And Innovation

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Achieved Success

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

- Ross Perot

topic: Motivational, Strength, Success, Favorite Sports, About Success

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Achieved Success, Achieving Success

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration