Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Walsh, Basil S.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Ward, William A.

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Houston, George

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Morley, Christopher

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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.

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.