Motivational Quotes

Success

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Rockefeller, John D.

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Browder, Charles

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.