Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Luckman, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Fettig, Art

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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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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Noble, Alex

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison