Anyone else keep a book of inspirational quotes about success (and love and aging)? The post-Olympics season seems like an ideal time to share some favorite words of wisdom about achieving great things:
"Statistically, 100 percent of the shots you don't take, don't go in" - ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky
"It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got" - Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps
"Things may come to those who wait - but only the things left by those who hustle" - former U.S. President Abe Lincoln
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
"My message is to never quit, never give up, and when you have little troubles here and there, just keep fighting, and it will all pay off. " - Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas
"Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration" - inventor Thomas Edison
"Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion" - comedian and actress Tina Fey
"Eighty percent of success is showing up" - writer and director Woody Allen
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life" - actress Sophia Loren
"Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm" - U.S. essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet" - author and journalist Damon Runyon
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent...Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
"No one makes it alone. Everyone who has achieved any level of success in life was able to do so because something or someone serves as a beacon to light the way" - Oprah Winfrey
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded" - U.S. poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A goal is a dream with a deadline" - motivational author Napoleon Hill
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up" - Vince Lombardi
"Moderation in all things - including moderation" - my husband
"You haven't failed until you stop trying" - unknown
"Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open" - Scottish whiskey distiller Thomas Dewar
"I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow" - former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
"Tradition is a guide, not a jailer" - British author W. Somerset Maugham
"Everyone wants to be interesting, but the vitalizing thing is to be interested. Keep a sense of curiosity. Discover new things. Care. Risk failure. Reach out" - John Gardner, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and former Stanford professor
"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best" - French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued" - former Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do" - African-American educator, author, and speaker Booker T. Washington
"You have to build meaning into your life, and you build it through your commitments, whether to your religion, to an ethical order as you conceive it, to your life's work, to loved ones, to your fellow humans...Your identity is what you've committed yourself to" - John Gardner, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and former Stanford professor
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right" - former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
"If at first you don't succeed, redefine success" - author Robert Fulghum
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" - inventor Ben Franklin
"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise" - playwright Melvin Van Peebles
"What keeps me going is goals" - former boxer Muhammad Ali
"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more" - author Erica Jong
What are your favorite quotes about success?
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