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

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Kane, Walter

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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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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De