Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Los Angeles Times

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Twain, Mark

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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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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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Mike Ditka

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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 secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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, 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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Fettig, Art

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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