Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tracy, Brian

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Henry Kissinger

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nielson, G. K.

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Mike Ditka

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

Walters, Dottie

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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

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

Houston, George

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.