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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

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

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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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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 comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Houston, George

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Banks, Harry F.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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