Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Aristotle

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

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.

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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Binstock, Louis

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig