Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Mike Ditka

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Gambetta, Leon

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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 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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Christopher Morley

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi