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 doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Billings, Josh

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Hogan, James P.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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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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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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