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Success And Progress Quotes About Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

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

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Perseverance is failing 100 times without giving up.
Unknown

Success is not about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama

Success And Progress Quotes About Focus

The successful person is the one who is able to focus on the task at hand and not be distracted by other things.
Zig Ziglar

The successful person is the one who is able to stay focused on their goals and not be swayed by the opinions of others.
Napoleon Hill

The successful person is the one who is able to turn their dreams into reality by focusing on what they want and taking action to make it happen.
Jack Canfield

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Donald Riggs

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith

The successful person is the one who can spur his or her supporters to work toward their goals.
Bill Bradley

The successful person is the one who is able to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.
Earl Nightingale

Success And Progress Quotes About Motivation

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how persistent and committed you are to your goals.
Debasish Mridha

Success And Progress Quotes About Goal-Setting

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Success And Progress Quotes About Self-Improvement

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Helmut Schmidt

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Success And Progress Quotes About Learning

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King

The expert in anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes

Success And Progress Quotes About Growth

Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how you use your talents, how hard you work, and how persistent you are.
Steve Pavlina

Success And Progress Quotes About Resilience

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.

Success And Progress Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Success And Progress Quotes About Taking Action

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

The only way to do it is to do it.
Mercedes Gleitze

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Bo Bennett

Success And Progress Quotes About Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Anonymous

Innovation is the key to success in this competitive world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
Peter Drucker

Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and move forward.
Richard Branson

Success And Progress Quotes About Leadership

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

Success And Progress Quotes About Determination

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

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

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

Success And Progress Quotes About Hard Work

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
Dwayne Johnson

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 overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips

Success And Progress Quotes About Discipline

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the key to success. Without discipline, there is no achievement.
Richard J. Foster

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith

Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.
Unknown

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.
Unknown

Discipline is the mother of all virtues.
Unknown

Discipline is the price you pay for freedom.
Unknown

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