Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Korda, Michael

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Grable, Betty

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Hunt, Bunker

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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 goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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 formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Fettig, Art

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Larry Page

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

Browder, Charles

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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