Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Brown, Bob

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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 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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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