Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Browder, Charles

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Banks, Harry F.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Noble, Alex

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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 peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Brown, Bob