Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Success

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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

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

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Grable, Betty

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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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

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

Walters, Dottie

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Wilson, Earl

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.