Motivational Quotes

Success

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Success

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl