Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Success

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Korda, Michael

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Carson, Johnny

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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 in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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 journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

Reggie Leach

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius