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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Henry David Thoreau

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Kane, Walter

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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 measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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