Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

- Karbo, Joe

Best Quotes about Success

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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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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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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

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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 there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Smith, May V.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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.