Motivational Quotes

Success

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

- Mackay, John W.

Best Quotes about Success

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Binstock, Louis

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Korda, Michael

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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

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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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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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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Christopher Morley

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Fettig, Art

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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