Motivational Quotes

Success

Success makes success, like money makes money.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Success

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

Collins, Marva

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Mike Ditka

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Houston, George

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle