Motivational Quotes

Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Success

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Ewing, Sam

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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 comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mike Ditka

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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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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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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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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Seneca

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald