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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Hogan, James P.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Mizner, Wilson

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Luckman, Charles

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Aristotle

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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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.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Backus, Jim

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Morley, Christopher