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Quotes on Obstacles, Failure & Success
1. “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
2. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown
at him.” ~ David Brinkley
3. “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim,
develop and use them” – Zig Ziglar
4. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if
you’re willing to work.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
History, though, shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the great political,
social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries- are always nuts, until
they’re right, and then they’re geniuses.” ~ Dr. John Eliot
6. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop
you. Only you can stop you.” – J. Gitomer
7. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” –
Sydney Smith
8. “There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen
9. “Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than
finding solutions. Stop wasting time defending your problems and work on addressing them
instead.” - Celestine Chua
10.“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.” –
Tony Robbins
11.“Athletes visualize winning 1000s of times before they step on the track. They’ve already
won. Other people just don’t know it yet.” – Anonymous
12.“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13.“There is no failure except in no longer trying” – Elbert Hubbard
14.“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t
happen.” Phillip Adams
15.“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have
kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
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16.“Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on
the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever
before.” – Herodotus
If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack
Obama
18.“Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.”
– Anonymous
19.“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill
20.“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.” – Napoleon Hill
21.“No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”- Napoleon Hill
22.“A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill
23.“Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a
pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure
inspires winners and defeats losers.” – Anonymous
24.“Winning means being unafraid to lose.” – Fran Tarkenton
25.“To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary
things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
26.“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s
built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone Chairman
27.“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When
you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” -Mary Kay Ash founder
28.“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” –
Mahatma Gandhi
29.“Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” - Celestine Chua
30.“It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
31.“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of
experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” – Anthony Robbins
32.“Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy
Pausch, The Last Lecture (Book)
33.“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to
reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
34.“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 (Nike ‘Failure’ Commercial;
15 Amazing Commercials To Inspire the Greatness in You )
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35.“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” –
Anthony J. D’Angelo
36.“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation
list.” – John Eliot
37.“I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” — Thomas Edison, when
inventing the first commercial light bulb.
38.“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael
Jordan
39.“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan
40.“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” –
Michael Jordan
41.“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
42.“One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
43.“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or
greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
44.“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Francis Kennedy
45.“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.” – Jim Rohn
46.“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” – Dennis Green
47.“But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving
forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” –
Rocky Balboa
48.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
49.Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~G. Woodberry
50.“Success is what you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
51.“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your
dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” ~Robert Kiyosaki
52.“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Rosevelt
53.“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up.” – Deamsian Wisdom
54.“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” Abraham Lincoln
55.“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” -Pable Picasso
56.“A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.” – Unknown
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57.“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure.”~ Colin Powell
58.“It is our experiences that mold us into who we are….during times of adversity our true
character will show.” - Celestine Chua
59.“You become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome.” Celestine Chua
60.“Winners don’t quit. That’s why they Win.” – Anonymous
61.The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
62.“(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero
then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure.” – Anonymous
63.“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
64.“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy
Roosevelt
65.“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen
66.“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.” ~Unknown
67.“Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and
using them to your advantage.” - Celestine Chua
68.“Nothing is impossible.” - Celestine Chua
69.“Impossible, when spelled out, stands for ‘I’m possible’.” – Anonymous
70.“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
Quotes on Hard Work
1. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas
Jefferson
2. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure.”~ Colin Powell
3. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player
4. “Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” - Celestine Chua
5. “It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
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Quotes on Change
1. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the
ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
2. “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” ~ Deepak Chopra
3. “Change is not pleasant, But change is constant. Only when we change and grow, We’ll
see a world we never know.” ~From Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker
4. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what
happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master
you. ~ Sri Ram
5. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
– Jim Rohn
Quotes on Imagination and Creativity
1. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein.
2. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein
3. “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~ Pablo
Picasso
4. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver
Wendell Holmes
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