Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Michael Flatley

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mike Ditka

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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 no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Backus, Jim

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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 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 is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson