Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Caldwell, Sarah

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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 with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Mike Ditka

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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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

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Luckman, Charles

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin