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Part 4: Quotes on achieving success

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Below are some quotes on achieving success in your life. These quotes could be used everyday. One quotes per day to start your day.

See part 1part 2 and part 3 of success quotes.

These quotes are from some of the greatest people in history.

 

Part 4: Success quotes

1.We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. Albert Einstein
3. Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust. Ambrose Bierce
4. The man with insight enough to admit his limitation comes nearest to perfection. Johann von Goethe
5. There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear. Confucius
6. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius
7. He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without. Johann von Goethe
8. Resolve to be thyself…. he who finds himself loses his misery! Matthew Arnold
9. The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. George Eliot
10. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
11. Good things happen to those who hustle. Anais Nin
12. Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Benjamin Disraeli
13. Nobody knows what’s in him until he tries to pull it out. If there’s nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man. Ernest Hemingway
14. If God has wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann von Goethe
15. I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do.  That is character! Theodore Roosevelt
16. What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle
17. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher
18. Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this – that you are dreadfully like other people. James Russell Lowell
19. Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, be any means get wealth and place. Alexander Pope
20. A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop.

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