149 Small Successes Quotes

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Famous Small Successes Quotes

It is important to recognize the small successes. — Rafael Nadal

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories. — Joseph M. Marshall III

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself. — Tal Ben-Shahar

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs. - Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments. — Teresa Amabile

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great. — Kara Goucher

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. - Robert Collier

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. — Robert Collier

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day. — Rafael Nadal

What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more. — James Clear

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh

Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for. — Robin Sharma

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there. — John H. Johnson

Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak. — Roger Federer

Short Small Successes Quotes

  • To get a habit to stick you need to feel immediately successful - even if it's in a small way. — James Clear
  • Little by little does the trick. — Aesop
  • It was gradual evolution, a long series of small wins and tiny breakthroughs. — James Clear
  • Most growth happens as a result of many small steps. The key is to keep taking them. — Dan Sullivan
  • Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. — Alice Walker
  • People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. — Anne Sullivan Macy
  • Little by little one goes far. — Mexican Proverbs
  • Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma
  • Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success. — Andre Agassi
  • You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds. — Lyn St. James

Small Successes Image Quotes

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top - Yvon Chouinard quote

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira quote

Live your life to the fullest. — Shakira

Small successes quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Small Achievements Quotes

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice. — Shakira

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Small successes quote Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time. — John C. Maxwell

It was only when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome. — James Clear

If you think you can't, you're right. - Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz

Small successes quote Take small steps everyday and you will get there one day.
Take small steps everyday and you will get there one day.

Establishing achievable, small, daily goals to build self-trust and discipline forms a foundation for consistency and success. — Gary Brecka

Whatever you do, be it small, big; have a goal and believe in yourself. — Markiplier

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. - Mary Kay Ash

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. — Mary Kay Ash

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries. — Nicola Sturgeon

How To Be Successful Quotes

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company. — Ida Tarbell

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. — Akshay Kumar

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. — Alfie Kohn

Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now. — Sylvia Earle

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself. — Harrison Ford

If you learn how to learn, it’s the ultimate meta skill and I believe you can learn how to be healthy, you can learn how to be fit, you can learn how to be happy, you can learn how to have good relationships, you can learn how to be successful. — Naval Ravikant

So how do you make it as a mainstream entertainer? Who knows? But I think you have to be uncomfortable, right? You have to make yourself uncomfortable. All success stories depend on that. That's why I might start sleeping on hardwood floors and taking cold showers. — Logan Paul

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. — William Jackson

Rather than taking advice from poor people on how to be rich. Take advice from people who are where you want to be. — Alex Hormozi

What Is A Good Success Quotes

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too. — Lynn Johnston

THE KEY TO SUCCESS is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing. Success begins with a positive attitude, it is the most valuable asset we may own. Success begins with a good feeling about where we are and a positive attitude about where we want to be. — Iyanla Vanzant

You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science. — Jack Welch

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. — Paula Creamer

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. — Jim Rohn

My whole success is I've always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got into hotels, I had to rethink, what am I selling now? You're selling a good time. — Morris Lapidus

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better. — Emilie Loring

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor. — Andy Warhol

An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive. — Basil S. Walsh

Small Steps To Success Quotes

Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming. — Vishen Lakhiani

Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change. — Robert D. Maurer

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance. — Oprah Winfrey

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first. — Deacon Jones

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. — Oprah Winfrey

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand. — Susan Collins

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. — David J. Schwartz

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps. — Robert Genn

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. — Regina Brett

Little Successes Quotes

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. — Bernard Law Montgomery

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all. — Robert Koch

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful. — Brian McKnight

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. - Saint Francis de Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. — Saint Francis de Sales

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. — Goswami Kriyananda

All real success is internal and has very little to do with external circumstances. — Naval Ravikant

Small Victories Quotes

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost. — Steven Furtick

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here. — Charles Bukowski

Small victories are bet­ter than none. — Neal Shusterman

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. — Arthur Ashe

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing. — Kara Goucher

Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am a series of small victories and large defeats. — Charles Bukowski

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. — Jim Stovall

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. — Bruce Catton

Little Victories Quotes

How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin

We learn little from victory, much from defeat. — Japanese Proverbs

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. — Louis L'Amour

Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves. — Frederic Farrar

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. — Mahatma Gandhi

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. — James T. Walsh

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories. — Bob Seger

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures. — John Phillips

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter". — Richard Marcinko

Small Wins Quotes

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells

We are evolved for frequent, visible, small wins. — Naval Ravikant

Each small win feeds your desire. — James Clear

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small. — Pat Morley

I think skiing nowadays is easier than when we were racing, but winning is maybe harder now, because there are so many top skiers. If you make one small mistake, it’s hard to win. — Ingemar Stenmark

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. — David Miliband

Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning. — Craig Stadler

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. — Jonathan Kozol

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. — Joseph Brodsky

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. — Michael Johnson

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More Small Successes Quotes

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton

All progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. — Napoleon Hill

To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. — Aliko Dangote

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. — Anais Nin

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. — George Washington

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. — Donald Trump

I’ve always said that the key to our success is not how big we are, it’s how small we act. Our people are what make us great. — Glen Bell

Happiness is in the small things. Success is in the big things. Meditation is in nothing. God is in everything. — Mahatria Ra

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. — Caterina Fake

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. — Bill Rancic

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. — Debbi Fields

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency. — Lee R. Raymond

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. — Atul Gawande

Success is not a destination, it’s a journey. Enjoy the process and celebrate every small achievement along the way. — Steven Bartlett

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. — Anna Pavlova

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards. — John Gokongwei

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. — William Arthur Ward

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. — Norman Lear

When you cease to dream you cease to live. — Malcolm Forbes

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. — Steve Jobs

Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes. — Wanda Rutkiewicz

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. — Lucille Ball

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. — Ann Landers

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. — Aesop

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires — Banksy

Start small and dream big. — Robert Kiyosaki

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