Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Crowell, Merle

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

Karbo, Joe

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Banks, Harry F.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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 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 man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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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

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon