Motivational Quotes

Success

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

- Anna Pavlova

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Proverb

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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.

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

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Wilson, Earl

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

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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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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 is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.