Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Kaiser, Henry J.

Best Quotes about Success

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Durante, Jimmy

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Meryl Streep

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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 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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.