Motivational Quotes

Success

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

- Dr. David M. Burns

Best Quotes about Success

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Twain, Mark

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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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

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Roosevelt, Theodore