Motivational Quotes

Success

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

- House, Jay

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Twain, Mark

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Churchill, Winston

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Quayle, Dan

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch