Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.
To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.
remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.
Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.
Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.
It is important to recognize the small successes.
There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
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