Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Los Angeles Times

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Coffin, Harold

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Korda, Michael

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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