Motivational Quotes

Success

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Success

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Winters, Jonathan

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Billings, Josh

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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.