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Success And Wisdom Quotes About Perseverance

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

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

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

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

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 the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing

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

Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a choice we make to never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Self-Discipline

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

The difference between successful people and very successful people is the extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair

Discipline is the key to success. Without discipline, there is no achievement.
Lou Holtz

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment, and it's the only thing that separates success from failure.
John Rohn

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Elbert Hubbard

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.
Dan Kennedy

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Patience

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Patience is the key to success.
Bill Gates

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis

Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian

Success And Wisdom 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 a new goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Success And Wisdom 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

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur

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

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
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 is about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

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

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 central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and embrace change.
Todd Davis

Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
Lailah Gifty Akita

Innovation is the key to success in this new economy.
John McCain

Innovation is the lifeblood of progress.
Bill Gates

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Positivity

Positive thoughts lead to positive results.
Maria V. Snyder

Positive anything is better than negative everything.
Elbert Hubbard

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
Harvey Mackay

Positive thinking is empowering, positive action is achieving.
Dr. T.P.Chia

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski

Positive thinking is the foundation of success and achievement.
Dr. T.P.Chia

Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with stress, and achieve your goals.
Brian Tracy

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Elbert Hubbard

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Gratitude

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown

Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Unknown

Gratitude is not only when we receive something, but also when we give something.
Unknown

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Humility

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill

The more humble we stay, the more God blesses us.
Mary Mary

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.
Carlos Barrios

The wise man is he who knows he knows nothing.
Socrates

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Learning From Failure

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

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

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

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 And Wisdom Quotes About Taking Risks

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Author Unknown

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
Drew Barrymore

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
Barack Obama

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo F. Buscaglia

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

The greatest risk in life is not taking one.
Unknown

Success And Wisdom 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

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

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

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

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 thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

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

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Creativity

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment.
Rollo May

Creativity is not a talent, it's a mindset.
Unknown

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Creativity is the foundation of innovation.
Naveen Jain

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Teamwork

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

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker

Teamwork makes the dream work.
Bang Gae

Success And Wisdom Quotes About Adaptability

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.
Chinese Proverb

The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus

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