Student Success Quotes

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Napoleon Hill

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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

Colin Powell

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Love, Inspirational, Life

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Graduation, Education, Teacher

New Scientist 21 May 1964

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Life, Graduation, Wise

"Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Nora Roberts

Motivation, Maximizing, Steps

Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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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

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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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

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Herman Cain

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

David Bly

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Jack Canfield

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Relationship, Success

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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