Success Quotes - 2
 Commonly attributed to Walt Disney, but actually coined by Disney employee Tom Fitzgerald for the Epcot ride Horizons in the 1980s. 
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More Success Quotes - 2
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
michael korda— p. 36 (Success! (1977))
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
bill gates— Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (1995)
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
henry kissinger
Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
michelle obama— Speech at Democratic National Convention, September 4, 2012
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford— American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
duke ellington— At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986)
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
thomas jefferson— American Founding Father and third President of the United States
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
norman vincent peale— Norman Vincent Peale, Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), "April 13"
— Earlier variant: People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. And those who have learned to have a realistic, nonegotistical belief in themselves, who possess a deep and sound self-confidence, are assets to mankind, too, for they transmit their dynamic quality to those lacking it.
— ?You Can If You Think You Can? (1987), p. 84
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other and everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
Taylor lautner— Taylor Lautner Addresses Kristen Stewart's Affair with Rupert Sanders; Interview with US Magazine (Nov. 6, 2012)
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.
Oliver Cromwell— To M. Bellièvre. Found in Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
The difference between success and failure is a great team.
Dave Kerpen— American entrepreneur, author and reality television personality. As quoted in The Big Book of Business Quotations (2016), by Johnnie Roberts.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory.
vince lombardi
Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
edmund hillary— As quoted in Great Climbs: A Celebration of World Mountaineering (1994) by Sir Chris Bonington.
Reducing our levels of consumption will not be a sacrifice but a bonus if we simply redefine the meaning of the word "success."
David wann— Found in Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness by Cecile Andrews and Wanda Urbanska
I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
Taylor Swift— "20 Questions with Taylor Swift" November 12, 2007
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
ted williams— American professional baseball player and manager (1918 - 2002)
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner— American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist/record producer
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
sun yat-sen— Former President of the Republic of China
Some people show up and do just enough to get by. But success requires you to always give your best effort.
Steve Harvey
I've missed more than 9,000 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— Without Failure, Jordan Would Be False Idol, Article in the Chicago Tribune (May 19, 1997)
I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential.
john wooden— Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (2011), by John Wooden and Steve Jamison.
