Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

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

Seneca

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.

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Los Angeles Times

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Anna Pavlova

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Fettig, Art

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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 person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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