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

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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.

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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 in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Dyke, Leroy Van