Motivational Quotes

Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Success

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Binstock, Louis

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Backus, Jim

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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 in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Johnson, John

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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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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

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Korda, Michael

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Aristotle

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Grable, Betty

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob