Motivational Quotes

Success

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

- Gibson, Mimfa A.

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

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

Houston, George

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Penn, Jack

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Morley, Christopher

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.