Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Meryl Streep

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Anna Pavlova

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Crowell, Merle

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Morley, Christopher

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki