Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Holt, Hamilton

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.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Crowell, Merle

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berlin, Irving