Motivational Quotes

Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, 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

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Crowell, Merle

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Degreen, Keith

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Dyer, Wayne