Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Nightingale, Earl

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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 is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Syrus, Publilius

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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 is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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