Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Success

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

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Degreen, Keith

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

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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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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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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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 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

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.