Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Crowell, Merle

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

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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.

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Rohn, Jim

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin