Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Los Angeles Times

Best Quotes about Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Sir Winston Churchill

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

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

Reggie Leach

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

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Quayle, Dan

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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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

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond