Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing fails like success.

- Gerald Nachman

Best Quotes about Success

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Price, Leontyne

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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 forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Browder, 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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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Grable, Betty