Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Success

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

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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.

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Quayle, Dan

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

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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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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 never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ward, William A.

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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 sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Carson, Johnny