Motivational Quotes

Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

- Hunt, Bunker

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Nielson, G. K.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Los Angeles Times

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

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Hogan, James P.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 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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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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 the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Colton, Charles Caleb