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

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Wilson, Earl

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Hogan, James P.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Haywood, Spencer

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Proverb

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Larry Page

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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