Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Seneca

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

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

Michael Flatley

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Quayle, Dan

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Popoff, Frank

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Collins, Marva

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George