Motivational Quotes

Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Browder, Charles

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Syrus, Publilius

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Degreen, Keith

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Powell, Colin

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

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Seneca

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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 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 counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aristotle

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.