Motivational Quotes

Success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Success

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

Browder, Charles

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Baum, Vicki

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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Popoff, Frank

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Ashe, Arthur

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.