Motivational Quotes

Success

We fall forward to succeed.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

Nunn, Gregory

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Collier, Robert

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Fettig, Art

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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 is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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