Motivational Quotes

Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

- Kennedy Jr., Robert

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Emily Dickinson

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Smith, May V.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.