Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Karbo, Joe

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

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Penn, Jack

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Bob

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

Albert Einstein

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

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul