Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Kin Hubbard

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Reggie Leach

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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 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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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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