Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
Themes quotes
Success
Well, we knocked the bastard off!
Edmund Hillary
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends hang sometimes, banners hang forever.
Kobe Bryant
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
Great success is commoner than great abilities.
Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.
Don Shula
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.
Andre Agassi
We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty.
Mal
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
Sun Tzu
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
Kobe Bryant
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Pennies don’t fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
First you get the woman, then you get the money, then you get the power.
Tony
There is only one success… to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
Bette Midler
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Recalled on his death 3 Sep 70
Vince Lombardi
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Montesquieu
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
If you want to be a better player, you have to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more.
Kobe Bryant
‘Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
Joseph Addison
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're fucking nuts.
David Goggins
Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.
Kristi Yamaguchi
Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don't focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!
David Goggins
Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
Carl Fox
I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
Michael Phelps
If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.
Kobe Bryant
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
Patrick Lencioni
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
The mindset isn't about seeking a result -- it's more about the process of getting to that result. It's about the journey and the approach. It's a way of life.
Kobe Bryant
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
Vince Lombardi
Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I've missed more than 9000 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
Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway -- that is actually the dream.
Kobe Bryant
When a half-assed job doesn't bother you, it speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. And until you start feeling a sense of pride and self-respect in the work you do, no matter how small or overlooked those jobs might be, you will continue to half-ass your life.
David Goggins