Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Brown, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Wilson, Earl

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Collier, Robert

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Brown, Bob

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Mike Ditka

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Twain, Mark

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Houston, George

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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 stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 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