Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Alderson, M. H.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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