Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Wilson, Earl

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Anna Pavlova

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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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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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.