Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Gray, Albert

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Morley, Christopher

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Michael Flatley

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

Collins, Marva

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Collier, Robert

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Popoff, Frank

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hogan, James P.