Motivational Quotes

Success

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Success and money have nothing in common.

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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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.

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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

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

Houston, George

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Mizner, Wilson

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Dyer, Wayne