Motivational Quotes

Success

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Houston, George

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Hogan, James P.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Luckman, Charles

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nielson, G. K.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.