Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing fails like success.

- Gerald Nachman

Best Quotes about Success

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

Henry Kissinger

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Browder, Charles

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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 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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Houston, George

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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.