Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michael Flatley

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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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.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Los Angeles Times

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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

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

Houston, George

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

Rohn, Jim

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.